thedailywhat: [photo via.]  FAIL: Homeland Security / Terrorist

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 FAIL: Homeland Security / Terrorist



feastingonroadkill: The economics of asymmetric warfare. via here “…the Defense Department comptrollers office has told Congress that based on rough estimates, the total cost of keeping an individual service member in the war zone is now about $500,000 a year. That includes the costs of personnel operations and maintenance costs, some equipment and hazardous duty pay. The actual costs could be higher, because the estimate does not include the cost of constructing additional facilities, providing support forces such as military intelligence assets that may be based outside Afghanistan or replacing damaged weapons or equipment.” “War is terrorism with a bigger budget”

feastingonroadkill:

The economics of asymmetric warfare. via here

“…the Defense Department comptrollers office has told Congress that based on rough estimates, the total cost of keeping an individual service member in the war zone is now about $500,000 a year.

That includes the costs of personnel operations and maintenance costs, some equipment and hazardous duty pay.

The actual costs could be higher, because the estimate does not include the cost of constructing additional facilities, providing support forces such as military intelligence assets that may be based outside Afghanistan or replacing damaged weapons or equipment.”

“War is terrorism with a bigger budget”



samuraifrog: dariuswhiteplume:bronz-age:friendlyatheist:via farm3.static.flickr.com “Atheism Cures Religious Terrorism.” Yes. And religious extremism of all stripes, except perhaps for religious intolerance.  The Russians already tried this and failed miserably.  You can’t stop belief, the power of belief, or the will to believe by just not believing, or institutionalizing a policy of not believing. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m EXTREMELY skeptical of organized religion, but I was force fed enough Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell to know that although this “apothegm” is slightly clever wordplay by bumper sticker standards, it shows a profound misunderstanding of human nature if beneath that cynical irony there is even the slightest trace of belief in that statement’s truth.

samuraifrog:

dariuswhiteplume:bronz-age:friendlyatheist:via farm3.static.flickr.com

“Atheism Cures Religious Terrorism.”

Yes. And religious extremism of all stripes, except perhaps for religious intolerance.  The Russians already tried this and failed miserably.  You can’t stop belief, the power of belief, or the will to believe by just not believing, or institutionalizing a policy of not believing.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m EXTREMELY skeptical of organized religion, but I was force fed enough Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell to know that although this “apothegm” is slightly clever wordplay by bumper sticker standards, it shows a profound misunderstanding of human nature if beneath that cynical irony there is even the slightest trace of belief in that statement’s truth.



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