[GunnerSam]

Years ago around four hundred railcars loaded with chemicals of varios types blew up near Knoxville Tennessee, I don't remember anyone screaming that Tennessee was lost and everyone should flee.

Maybe you should google up images of "the Highway of Death" and see what real destruction looks like, or the "Devils Rock Garden".
Loss of a single merchant marine freighter in WW2 resulted in much greater loss of equipment.

There are probably as many privately owned civilian versions of the Humvee within a few miles of here.

The Chicken Little tactic is ridiculous.

 

[GunnerSam]

Advisory Board

• The work of ICOS is supported by its Advisory Board. Current Members are:
  • Mr Raymond Kendall, Honorary Secretary General of Interpol (Chair);
  • Dr Lloyd Axworthy, President of the University of Winnipeg, Nobel Prize Nominee and former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs;
  • Dr Massimo Barra, President of the Italian Red Cross and President of the Development Commission of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies;
  • Mr Romesh Bhattacharji, Former Narcotics Commissioner of India;
  • Mr Tom Buruku, President of the Uganda Red Cross;
  • Mr Vitalino Canas , President of the European Affairs Committee, Portuguese Parliament;
  • Dr Rien van Gendt, Former Executive Director of the Van Leer Group Foundation (2002-2007);
  • Sir Keith Morris, UK Ambassador to Colombia (1990-1994);
  • Mr Philip Owen, Former Mayor of Vancouver;
  • Prof. John Charles Polanyi, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Canada;
  • Lord Dennis Stevenson, Chairman of HBOS, Member of the House of Lords;
  • Mr Luc Tayart de Borms, Managing Director of the King Baudouin Foundation;
  • Prof Dr Brice de Ruyver, President of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of Gent University.

• Mind pointing to the Military Geniuses in this list of advisors to the senility Council?

Their main operations these days appears to be some scheme to legalize Opium production.
A bunch of academics , third rate politicians, chemists and washed up ex Narcs.
Looking to gain control of the Opium output with some licensing and taxation scheme.

 

[GunnerSam]

Your claim

Phuck, they've gone from 54% to 72% control in Afghanistan?

Isn't even supported by your quote from the article.

The Taliban has a permanent presence in 72% of the territory of Afghanistan

Presence does not mean control.

And the source is not particularly credible.

Calm down and try to at least use the words in the articles you post instead of wildly running about like a chicken with your head cut off everytime you find an obscure article that you hope can support your gloom and doom scenarios.

PS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw

 

[GunnerSam]

I live in one of the largest cities in the US and I have main roads right here (not on the other side of the planet) less than two miles from the downtown area that are so bad that you can hardly drive on them, especially in bad weather.

Doesn't your city have a "wheel tax"?
Streets and Roads around here have improved greatly and continue to do so.