Well, thats a good find.

Yesterday,
The Slovaks managed to seize some highly enriched uranium from smugglers.
They found about half a kilogram of the stuff in powdered form which should be useful for making a dirty bomb.
And if that were so then what might be the intended target of such a weapon?
I personally suspect that terrorists might try a German city that would cause a lot of economic damage, possibly a city like Hamburg.
Then its always good to hear thing like this, kinda...

Veterans day

Wazirstan.

A mini-Afghanistan?

My friends, if you have payed attention to the news lately you may off noticed that Pakistan is in a state of turmoil or as its dictator Musharraf likes too call it a "state of emergency".
He says he declared it because his army and paramilitaries were being routed in Wazirstan.
Though in actuality he took the opportunity to sack his supreme court who were due to deliver their verdict on the legality of his presidency and make himself dictator.

This triggered massive protests that were put down by the police.
All this of course went on when the Taliban were on the offensive and captured large swaths of territory in Swat which is not all that far away from the capital Islamabad.
Let me also remind you that Pakistan has dozens of nukes while Iran (hopefully) has none.
Also Al-Qaeda fights with the Taliban and one may be able to say that they have effectively merged...
So the nightmare Scenario emerges what do we do too stop the formation of a radical warlike state with nuclear weapons with clear links too terrorists groups that would use them against us?

Pick your poison.
1. Do we simply turn the tribal areas of Pakistan into glass (Hard counterinsurgency?) and remove the tribes and a large chunk of Jihadi's (including Osama himself) from the face of the Earth? Do we also deal with the accompanying international shit storm that would follow?

2. Or do we use the skills we have learned in Iraq and apply them there in an open ended counter-insurgency campaign in probably the most remote and hostile (for us) region of the planet for us and trying to divide a tribal society where there is little moral distinction between the Jihadist and the tribesmen?
3. Or do we simply sit back do nothing and watch as a civil war unfolds that if the radicals win could become the cause for regional or even worldwide nuclear conflagration.
So then my friends what do we do?
What do we do too prevent this nightmare from ever happening?

Finally, a decent rebuttal.

Mark Whittington posted a decent rebuttal of this dumb article from the Guardian about how we are going to rape and destroy the environment of the moon by mining and settling it.

I mean its not like it has been bombarded by the solar wind, asteroids, and comets for eons right? Or that it has no life whatsoever and that it just a close, dry, rock and that humans colonizing it is probably the most interesting thing that has happened to it since its creation?
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Seriously whats with these people its like they want us to die off or something.