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"We cannot forget that the universal values of freedom, liberty, equality and opportunity are fragile, and they must be passionately guarded every day,"

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  "We cannot forget that the universal values of freedom, liberty, equality and opportunity are fragile, and they must be passionately guarded every day,"  – U.S. Army Gen. John Nicholson, commander, Resolute Support and U.S. Forces Afghanistan.   True. But the West including France, Australia, Canada, EU... could not “passionately guard” their dunny door from being caved in. They have failed miserably at great cost in grief and wealth attempting to manage not annihilate emergent horror from Muslim development floors across the globe, preferring to snipe a “contextual” postmodern nihilistic morality, and restrict flows of critical resources to both Ukraine and Israel, who do not have the choice of running away to have the antithesis become stronger, more lethal.   Islam/Muslim Iran a Biology/Culture Ideology is in soft-power dissimulation overdrive mode specifically designed to lower fear thresholds so as to avoid rightful retribution.   Dissimulat...

Counterinsurgency lessons from Iraq By Bing WestMay 5, 2009

  Counterinsurgency lessons from Iraq By Bing WestMay 5, 2009 The military war in Iraq ended in 2008, although political conflict among Sunnis, Shi’ites, and Kurds will continue for decades. At the same time, the war in Afghanistan has heated up, with more American troops committed to battle. This article, based on 15 extended trips I made to Iraq and interviews conducted with 2,000 Soldiers and Marines, reviews the causes of the turnaround in Iraq and their importance for doctrine development and for success in the war in Afghanistan. A Two-Front War Imperiled From 2003 through 2008, two separate fronts accounted for about two-thirds of all American fatalities. In the west, the Sunni province of Anbar emerged as the heartland of a sectarian resistance that was gradually taken over by Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Anbar accounted for 42 percent of all U.S. fatalities in Iraq from 2004 through 2006.(1) To the east, the Baghdad region accounted for 27 percent of the fatalities in 2004-2006...

"Risk information avoidance is widespread, and happens in contexts ranging from the personal to civic spheres."

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  @ASIOGovAu @MikePBurgess @AusFedPolice "Risk information avoidance is widespread, and happens in contexts ranging from the personal to civic spheres." Planned Risk Information Avoidance: A Proposed Theoretical Model, Mary Beth Deline, Lee Ann Kahlor, Communication Theory, Volume 29, Issue 3, August 2019, Pages 360–382,https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qty035 Published:31 January 2019 Conspiracy theory. Really. From the Muslim Christmas apology to now disproves the following? Antithesis Biology/Culture Ideologies repeatedly Dissimulate (Adapt, Discover, Improvise) until they reach thresholds to Overcome or are allowed to survive to repeat the process. Belief extreme violence is an acceptable conflict resolution methodology does not appear out of thin air. Citizens require rationale system ideological scaffolding. Such belief is not acquired, as the Australian Muslim Doctors support for Muslim Palestinian horror of Oct7th proves, cognitively embedded over a weekend locked in a roo...