Trained, Uniformed, Kept Out Of the News

Here is a photograph of the Bangladeshi 'Rapid Action Battalion,' basically an armed group of thugs who act as extra-judical death squads for various factions in the Sunni dominated government of Bangladesh. They include Rohingya elements from across the border in Burma, and travel quite easily in and out of what is now a broken down, dysfunctional country - Thailand - and into a number of foreign countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia.

These, are Laskars.

 

Recently there have been a number of incidents, relatively easily concealed by the state-controlled media of Singapore and Malaysia, that have included car-bombings, violent tourist assaults, other things. When you have a state-controlled media you can characterise such things as 'a disgruntled domestic worker who wasn't paid,' type of thing.

There is some good sense in recent Australian politicians' and police force statements about being alert but not afraid or panicked.

Yes, you have to protect yourself.

Citicorp has its back covered, but you don't because you can't afford the lobbyists with which to get any politician to do anything responsible.

Welcome to today's world.

About a month ago I decided to back off a little because I respect and trust Admiral Rogers, the new head of the NSA. He's battling it uphill though.

The guy in the field is always the last to know...

 

But I expect Admiral Rogers to stick his foot down on some of the things that are being forced on the US by entirely outside interests. No Carlyle Group, no Singapore or Sri Lankan, and no House of Saud 'influence.' Politicians do not seem to understand that taking advice from a dictator is a morally bad choice. But big equals better as far as your average politician is concerned.

 

Let's have this conversation again ten years from now and see where it all stands!

 

Your country and mine will still be forced to go on though, ten years from now and ten times that too. So, let's start to get a few strategic things right soon.

 

If any of the strategies were correct, why is 'it' still happening? And I don't want to hear what I already know is a lie - 'lone wolf.'

 

This is my take on what the present security intelligence agencies know: I don't think they know what they are doing at all! Rogers may make some shifts and that, may start to take follower agencies towards the right ideas.