The Unsalvageables
Taki´s Magazine,
by
David Cole
Original Article
Posted By: PostAway,
1/14/2020 9:31:08 PM
This week’s column starts in a Georgia ghetto, and ends in the Middle East. Some of you might remember Anthony Stokes. He was a 15-year-old DeKalb County, Ga., hood rat with a bum ticker who kept getting passed over for a heart transplant because of his “high risk” lifestyle, which included burglary, weapons charges, arson, and neglecting to take his prescribed meds.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
padiva 1/14/2020 10:03:17 PM (No. 288768)
Great long read.
The last sentence is a great conclusion!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 1/14/2020 10:33:26 PM (No. 288786)
The author is so right. But if you want to salvage these people, you have to get them early in life, which means removing the babies from that sucky environment and placing them in orphanages. If you don’t, they will be lost by the end of the third grade. In an orphanage, they will be cared for and educated. But if we do relocate them, there would be cries of Dickensian orphanages and how terrible it is to take those cute babies from their fatherless home. The bleeding hearts get the headlines and common sense goes out the door.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 1/14/2020 10:33:50 PM (No. 288787)
There are reasons why the mideast and south Asian area never developed an advanced society. Cultural, religious and genetic reasons.
14 centuries of marrying your cousins because your 7th century barbarian warlord 'religion ' says it is OK, isn't actually OK. And Islam is a fundamental barrier to advancement.
Yes, unsalvageable is the right term. My family has lost one beloved member in the sewer that is Afghanistan. I'd be perfectly OK with a 25 warhead nuke strike as our parting gift to that hellhole. Sad to say, it wont happen any time soon.
Perhaps one day we will realize that Islam is a literal existential threat to civilization, and have the spine to do what is required.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sw penn 1/14/2020 11:08:36 PM (No. 288802)
Some people just can't understand that:
"We must save you for your own good."
inevitably leads to
"You destroyed my Borders, Language, Culture, therefore you must die."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/14/2020 11:32:15 PM (No. 288812)
Read this article.
The money quote: "No, Einstein, we all knew."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/15/2020 12:50:52 AM (No. 288823)
Cuomo's turning the whole state of New York into unsalvageables with his "no punishment for crimes" agenda.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chase9365 1/15/2020 5:04:23 AM (No. 288880)
A must read.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Peeps 1/15/2020 6:03:39 AM (No. 288910)
Wow. Harsh but true! Must read.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 1/15/2020 1:19:51 PM (No. 289306)
I agree with the portion about unsalvageable people but I disagree about the portrayal of Kurt Schlichter's ideas about Afghanistan.
Kurt wants us out of Afghanistan. He argues we didn't completely "win" militarily because we stopped due to lack of political will. We could have leveled the county and what was left would not have been a threat but "Do we want that butcher’s bill?". But he doesn't advocate that OR to continue to try to fix an unsalvageable country. "It’s always sucked and it always will suck and its suckiness is not our problem." Kurt suggests we leave them to their own mess with the only promise that, if you become a problem again, we will come back and purge you.
That seems to me to be the right attitude to the use of military force. Go in, destroy and kill to the needed amount to end the threat. Leave with the implied threat to rinse and repeat as necessary. Leave the country to its people. Provide humanitarian aid, but not personnel to be targets, if it is judged to be worthwhile, i.e. the people are salvageable. If peace and stability is achieved, then consider sending in non military personnel to aid. The first American injured or killed would cause the complete loss of any aid.
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