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Fidelis 2023

"Let a guy whose language you did not speak shave around your lips and up your neck with a single-edged piece of steel and you need never again prove your courage in any way."

Карлсон улетел и не обещал вернуться

Не собирался ничего писать, но тут прибежала новость.

FOX News Media, New York, 2023-04-24:

FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.

Его долго и упорно подставляли. Судя по тому, какую информацию ему подсовывали последнее время, охота шла серьёзная.

Чистая победа. Последний бастион пал.

(Удалил ссылку из закладок. FOX больше смотреть незачем.)

Вместо послесловия полная цитата от эпиграфа.

The Iraqi barber on Falcon, like his brothers from Sri Lanka, had a vocabulary of about six English words, all synonyms for short. He favored the phrase too easy, meaning something you requested would be easy to deliver. "Can you cut my hair short?" "Too easy." "Can you cut my hair quickly?" "Too easy." Haircuts with this guy were indeed too easy because he seemed to deliver what you asked for. It took only a few minutes given this efficient system, so this was the place to go when you were in a hurry. He also gave the closest shaves, scraping away with a single-edged razor blade he pinched between two fingers. Let a guy whose language you did not speak shave around your lips and up your neck with a single-edged piece of steel and you need never again prove your courage in any way.

"We Meant Well. How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People" by Peter van Buren, 2011

Книга тут уже упоминалась (Искусство посылать / 36.6 kB / 2022-10-03). К прочтению обязательна. Особенно, для украинцев.

Кстати, добавлю две отложенные в черновики ссылки на видео. Символизм обеих тем для сегодняшнего дня объяснять не буду. Чего зря расписывать: кто хочет, сам увидит.

Tucker: This new footage of Dr. Fauci is amazing, 2023-03-22:

Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo provides reaction and analysis to newly released PBS footage of Dr. Fauci speaking with D.C. residents about the COVID vaccine.

Лекция "We Meant Well" by Peter Van Buren, 69 min., 2014-11-19:

Winning hearts and minds is an idea in which mission success is not a function of superior force, but rather emotional and intellectual appeals to gain supporters from the other side of a conflict. In America’s bellicose past, the strategy was alternatively emphasized, implemented, and ignored during war, insurgencies, and other conflicts. The Iraq War (2003-2011) is no exception; the war demonstrated the efficacy of the “hearts and minds” tactic if it is properly put into practice. In his book, former Foreign Service Officer Peter Van Buren describes, from first-hand experience, how America’s decade-long occupation and the ongoing reconstruction of Iraq was mismanaged, leading to grievous misspending and waste. Van Buren’s lecture will emphasize the military and civilian leadership’s poor planning, disorganization, and lack of forethought for the future of Iraq and its people. He will describe how the U.S. State Department’s good intentions to defeat terrorism led down a road of counterintuitive and frivolous spending. Van Buren’s inside look at the State Department’s misguided efforts span from spending taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad’s most dangerous neighborhood, to pastry classes meant to train women to open cafés on bombed-out streets without water or electricity. Because of ineffective projects and bureaucratic fumbling, the Iraq reconstruction project is remembered as the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan.

[ Project: War_202202_NsF_Psy RU DW ]: Черновик краткого учебника новейшей истории / / 2022-03-19 (Список основных постов на тему разбора психологии войны 2022-02)