We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/afghan_report_w.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:57:57 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/afghan_report_w.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/afghan_report_w.html Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:03:29 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/afghan_report_w.html#comment-113215 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/afghan_report_w.html#comment-113215 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:54:52 -0600
We continue to deal with the same evil, just in different forms.

My understanding is that a certain Sheikdom provided funding assistance to  the Pak nuc programme back in the day. All else follows, methinks. 

IF the book "Alms for Jihad" hadn't been Orwellianized by a major academic press in the UK, I would direct your attention to it...

IF the book "Jihad Humanitaire" were in English and available or otherwise published in North America, I would direct EVERYBODY towards it...

I first became 'enlightened' as to these sorts of activities when I was in Bosnia and Croatia during in bad old days of UNPROFOR in 1995. They continued in various forms and when I was working in Kosovo and Macedonia I decided to keep track of them. Nobody (or very very few people) critiqued NGO behaviour then-therefore I decided that NGOs should be examined and if necessary critiqued.

There was a lot to critique.

I should write a book someday.

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Cheers
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But in this piece, you really yanked my leash tight. Good, for both of us, but it all depends on how you look at it.  You mentioned the Pakistani floods, NGO's donations and "tithing." My question is this, this "tithing", is this from just Pakistan or the rest of the Sheikdoms under the Sharia?  The differences are beyond our mind's conceptions.

@Heartless, Could this be a strategy? Wear them out and break them, "Afghanistan: Still, The Cemetery of Empires."
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