Can it be World Police Time now?

[tyrannosaurus vex]

So the Taliban are advancing on Islamabad. Cool, potential failed states with nukes are my favorite after-breakfast snack. Luckily, the US and the EU and their retarded half-sibling the UN are all about "Respecting International Borders" (but only when there's a good reason for violating them, apparently) and so there's this big question about whether we should get involved or not.

So my first question is, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR BRAINS? Why is this even a point of debate? Taliban + nukes = Europe held hostage. Even if there are plans in place to prevent the nukes from falling into Taliban control, the best that can come of them somehow overthrowing the Pakistani government is 25 years of bloodshed and failed statehood, followed by probably 50 years of Shariah Law.

My second question is, in a larger sense, when do we finally decide to gang up on these backward Shariah Law-imposing theocracies throughout the Middle East and tell them, "We're terribly sorry, but you are not allowed to do this on our planet. Fuck off." And then blow them up with large bombs until they can crawl out of the 10th Century?

I'm all in favor of the kind of world the "First-World Nations" seem to think we live in, unfortunately, that world is not the real world. And I understand we keep doing everything we can to avoid WW3, but every time we only go halfway in fighting it off, we just allow for it WW3 to become twice as bad as it should have to be.

Ideas?

[LMNO]

I think I'll leave this one for Jenne.

[P3nT4gR4m]

My brain says you're right. My heart says no.

I tend to reserve judgement until those two agree.

[The Dark Monk]

As long as Germany is safe, IDC. We must protect The Hoff.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

You really wanna scare these guys?
Pull out all U.S. troops with no explanation.

All of em. Just go pick em all up, don't tell anybody why or say anything other than "see ya".
Watch em squirm and keep looking up. Waiting. The way you used to do when mom would say "You wait till your father gets home", then when dad got home you'd just sit there quiet, watching him, waiting for the belt.

[Archduke Omni-Fap!]

I sometimes wish I could explode peoples' heads from a distance. I'd just sit down in a comfertabuhl chair, and let my mind wander up into the ether making contact with other minds, sifting through other people's memories, until it contacted the mind of a complete bastard, maybe, you know, ONE OF THOSE CUNTS WHO STONED A 13 YEAR OLD RAPE VICTIM TO DEATH. 

And I'd just squeeze. And somewhere in the world, some gun-toting, bearded Sharia-ponce would collapse, stricken, in a ruined, bloodied heap. I'd get 'em all, eventually.

But it's not good to think about that kinda stuff for too long. Ties my insides in knots...

[Faust]

And then blow them up with large bombs until they can crawl out of the 10th Century?

I fucking love killing people in cities/government buildings at random. It makes the first world seem so much safer and doesn't inspire vengeance in people who were previously uninvolved.
Not one bit.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

I would be very surprised if there is absolutely no intervention.

Oh wait, there has been intervention.

Also,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/24/pakistan.taliban.control.gilani/index.html?eref=rss_latest

[P3nT4gR4m]

The human rights agency issued a report on Friday raising concerns about Taliban rule in Buner, which it says includes a ban on music and mandatory beards for all men.

W ... T ... F

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

You really wanna scare these guys?
Pull out all U.S. troops with no explanation.

All of em. Just go pick em all up, don't tell anybody why or say anything other than "see ya".
Watch em squirm and keep looking up. Waiting. The way you used to do when mom would say "You wait till your father gets home", then when dad got home you'd just sit there quiet, watching him, waiting for the belt.

I love this idea!

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

That's something I would call "logistically retarded".

Also, we did this in the first invasion of Iraq and look how that turned out.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

That's something I would call "logistically retarded".

Also, we did this in the first invasion of Iraq and look how that turned out.

Quite well, as I recall.

Then Bush's kid thought he could do better.

[Cainad (dec.)]

And then blow them up with large bombs until they can crawl out of the 10th Century?

I fucking love killing people in cities/government buildings at random. It makes the first world seem so much safer and doesn't inspire vengeance in people who were previously uninvolved.
Not one bit.

Making war on the next generation FTW.

[Honey]

My brain says you're right. My heart says no.

I tend to reserve judgement until those two agree.

^ This is very wise.  When the heart & head are reconciled.  (Similar to when the lion lays down with the lamb.) 

Unfortunately I don't have any ideas about any of this, all I know is what we're doing isn't working.

(Cain?)

[Requia ☣]

My brain says you're right. My heart says no.

I tend to reserve judgement until those two agree.

The exact opposite for me.  My heart says to stop this.  My brain says that trying will only make it worse.