Journal fustakrakich's Journal: When proxy wars get weird... 13
Sometimes they can indeed be bad for business. The "Taliban" found out when they stepped on the wrong toes... Whose side will our illustrious leaders take now?
Almost forgot to mention:
This comes through a harshly-worded encrypted email...
There's the adage... (Score:2)
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, which is absurd but bear with me. This is the US government in question? We'll probably side with IS. Why? Drugs are bad, m'kay... Seriously, if they can collude with IS and it means capturing this guy then the publicity is even better than if they eliminated IS entirely. We're not impacted, in any meaningful way that we can observe easily, by IS. We are (for better or worse) impacted by drugs.
So, yeah... I suspect they'd collude with IS to get El Chapo if they could do i
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Just look at notable relationships in the Middle East [informatio...utiful.net] and it's obvious that there's no simple as "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
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Too true but, of course, that's why I said "which is absurd." :D There's no such thing there but, I am guessing, the *average* person in America thinks the situation is entirely black and white and won't bother with the complexities.
Make sense?
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I kinda think the "letter" is a fake, but in the hypothetical, I believe the government would be very interested in negotiating a peace plan to allow both businesses to coexist side by side. I mean, both actually do, this is really just a turf war amongst criminal families that's getting a bit too big for comfort. They are psychopaths, they don't masturbate to religion and "morality" the way genpop does. For them, it is a hammer, not a practice. ISIS fighters switch sides [mirror.co.uk] faster than techies switch jobs. Ch
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I had not thought of that. That would be... That would be troubling. Well, then again, maybe not? It might calm things down. Sure, "bad things" happen because drugs are being grown and someone gets a theocracy.
A while back, I postulated that it is an interesting thought experiment to consider this:
What if we told IS that we'd let them have the land, that we'd help them defend their borders, that we'd engage in diplomatic relationships with them, and the only thing we ask is that they let anyone in that terr
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If drug laws stopped people from doing drugs then we wouldn't have a drug problem.
If drug laws stopped people from doing drugs, they would be repealed overnight. Drug laws are only designed to protect and control a market.
What if we told IS that we'd let them have the land, that we'd help them defend their borders...
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I wonder if they have to get SEC approval. ;-)
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UPDATE: The post about El Chapo Threatening To Destroy ISIS turns out to have been incorrect. Satiric blogger Steve Charnock, who works for Thug Life Videos, a U.K. satiric website, said he was the author of the “fictional story” about Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán threatening to destroy ISIS, according to the Daily Mail.
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:-) Thanks [slashdot.org] for confirming [slashdot.org]... It did sound weird, but it was a nice thought
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Yeah, it didn't seem real but it did seem like it'd be an interesting turn of events.
It sounds interesting (Score:2)
The e-mail has not been authenticated. DEA spokesperson Rusty Payne told me via e-mail: "I don’t have any information to weigh in either way."
It's also not implausible that a Sinaloa Cartel enemy would try to stir up a war between the cartel and ISIS. Or someone is trolling. Good material for a novel.
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Yes, I do believe it's phony as a three dollar bill, but the storyline is intriguing. However, it also spells another failure of containment, drawing the war closer to home.
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