I get deleted occasionally from some forums when making the point that, as Mr. Roggio points out, it is most probable that only genocide-level casuatlies among the NWF tribes will end this ludicrous situation.
In 2007, after a century-long conflict, the Anglo-American world order is undermined by the Swati tribes of the Hindu Kush, among whom homicide is apparently the favorable mode of conflict-resolution. Moreover, they seem more impervious to any civilized dialogue and political accomodation than was previously imaginable – and which remains unimaginable to the left, among others, apparently.
This is a problem. “Many sons and a lot of guns” is the motto there; today’s tribes look exactly like the ones a young Winston Churchill encountered in The Story of the Malakand Field Force – only now they have AK47s and who knows what other heavier weaponry.
In such a situation, I’m afraid the solution cannot be “oh well we tried everything, let’s just go back to herding cats; maybe they’ll just calm down eventually.” And having tried everything, what then can you do?
The answer: smallpox on blankets.
People can flinch at this and their moral sensibilities can glower all they like but frankly there will never be another way. Kennan only met the Russians and proclaimed that they are “insensitive to the logic of diplomacy, but highly sensitive to the logic of force.” Well, it’s time to start punching holes in that wretched population with our nice B-52 fleet, at least. It’s not my fault that’s they way it is.
