On a Lighter Note

I haven't put something like this up for a while. For those of us who are fans of JRR Tolkien, shooting has begun on the cinematic doublet, "The Hobbit".

Peter Jackson has started a FaceBook page to keep us fans up to date on the progress of the project.

Very cool 10-minute introduction.

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The Current Crisis in US Counterinsurgency: The Movie

I'm not trying to mock seydlitz here. I thought of this, enjoy the humor, and it seems to me that the methods of our present dealings with the inhabitants of southcentral Asia are about as sensible as the centurion's here.

As Ael says:

"Trying to figure a rational way to win the Afghan civil war without intending to own Afghanistan at the end is a pointless exercise. That the USA is actually trying to do this tells you that the motivation for the war has nothing to do with Afghanistan and everything to do with the great game being fought in Washington. Look at the cost of the war versus the Afghan GDP."

We are fighting for tactics and details and completely missing the point.