Did we invade or just move forward?” Martinez asked.
“Can’t tell,” Harper said. There were two radios in the front, and they both crackled with orders, voices overlapping.
“Well, are we in Iraq or not?” Jimmy said.
“I said, I can’t tell. The GPS is on the fritz. But I don’t think so.”
“Wasn’t that the berm back there?” Like Jimmy, Ramos had an obscured view in the back.
“Might’ve been a hill. I didn’t see any barbed wire.”
“Headline: ‘Marines Think They Entered Iraq,’ ” Jimmy said.
“F—- you.”
“The greatest high-tech fighting force on the planet was fairly certain that it attacked a member of the Axis of Evil yesterday,” Jimmy said as if composing a story out loud. “Marine sources reported that the glorious invasion had begun, unless they should have made a left at the gas station right past the church, in which case it hadn’t.”
“Fog of war,” Harper said. “Get used to it.”

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Pervez Hoodbhoy on the fiasco in Pakistan:

The Lal Masjid battle is part of the wider civil war within the Islamic world waged by totalitarian forces that seek redemption through violence. Their cancerous radicalism pits Muslims against Muslims, and the world at large. It is only peripherally directed against the excesses of the corrupt ruling establishment, or inspired by issues of justice and equity.
Note that the Lal Masjid ideologues - and others of their ilk - do not rouse their followers to action on matters of poverty, unemployment, poor access to justice, lack of educational opportunities, corruption within the army and bureaucracy, or the sufferings of peasants and workers. Instead their actions are concentrated entirely on improving morality, where morality is interpreted almost exclusively in relation to women and perceived Western cultural invasion. They do not consider as immoral such things as exploiting workers, cheating customers, bribing officials, beating their wives, not paying taxes, or breaking traffic rules. Their interpretation of religion leads to bizarre failures in logic, moral reasoning, and appreciation of human life

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Thanks, Abbas Raza at 3QD