vgi55.bsky.social
Ret Division Chief Special Operations/Paramedic VBFRS, FBI (ret) SWAT/SO Medic, DSS, OGA operator medic (ret), Emergency Medicine/Trauma PA. I’m always a work in progress. Values, ethics, honor, courage, integrity, moral compass not just words
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Thanks for the add I’ll try to put music on. That’s not so old that no one knows who it is.
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If only we had something that could prevent this, you know like a vaccine
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Fuck musk and trump
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Get the facts out as soon as possible, even when new facts contradict the old. Untidy truth is better than smooth lies that unravel in the end anyway
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Don’t be stampeded by first Reports
Don’t let your judgments run ahead of your facts
Even with supposed facts in your hands, question them if they do not add up.
Something deeper and wiser than bits of data inform our instincts
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The Duke of Wellington –
Letter to the foreign minister during the Peninsular Campaign -
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“This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions…
To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountant copy boys in London
Or perchance
2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain?”
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Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and nine pence remains unaccounted for in one of the infantry battalion’s petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as to the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment”
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Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps you think it is.”
T.E. Lawrence
August 20, 1917
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“ Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are there to help them, not to win it for them.
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Rule 16: There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I my brothers and my cousins against the world.
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Rule 15: REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE OR DEMOCRACY, YOU CANNOT WANT IT MORE THAN THEY DO, AND THEREFORE YOU CANNOT PROVIDE IT TO THEM NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY.
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Rule 14: THE LEBANESE HISTORIAN KAMAL SALIBI HAD IT RIGHT.
“GREAT POWERS SHOULD NEVER GET INVOLVED IN THE POLITICS OF SMALL TRIBES”
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Rule 13: AMERICAS FIRST PRIORITY IS DEMOCRACY, AN ARABS FIRST PRIORITY IS “JUSTICE” THE ARAB SOUL IS A WOUNDED SOUL HURT BY COLONIAL POWERS, JEWISH SETTLEMNTS, ARAB KINGS AND DICTATORS AND MOST OF ALL BY THE ENDLESS TRIBAL WARS. THEY DON’T WANT DEMOCRACY THEY WANT JUSTICE AT THE MOMENT.
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Rule 12: BECAUSE OF RULE 11 THE ISRAELIS WILL ALWAYS WIN AND THE PALESTINIANS WILL ALWAYS MAKE SURE THEY DON’T ENJOY IT. EVERYTHING ELSE, AS THEY SAY IS COMMENTARY.
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Rule 11: THE MOST UNDERESTIMATED EMOTION IN THE ARAB WORLD IS HUMILIATION AND VIOLENCE. IT GNAWS AT THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST THAT SUCH A SMALL COUNTRY AS ISRAEL WITH 7 MILLION PEOPLE DEFEATED THE ARAB NATIONS WITH 350 MILLION PEOPLE.. THE WESTS PROBLEM IS THAT IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
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Rule 10: MIDDLE EAST CIVIL WARS END IN ONE OF THREE WAYS.
ONE SIDE VANQUISHES THE OTHER (U.S)
A HARD PARTITION DIVIDES THE TWO SIDES (CYPRUS)
A SOFT PARTITION UNDER AN IRON FIST DIVIDES THE SIDES (LEBANON WITH SYRIA)
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Rule 9: IN THE MIDDLE EAST THERE IS NO HAPPY MEDIUM WHEN IT COMES TO TRIBAL POLITICS. WHEN ONE SIDE IS WEAK THEY WILL SAY “I AM WEAK HOW CAN I COMPROMISE?” WHEN ONE SIDE IS STONG THEY WILL SAY “I AM STRONG, WHY SHOULD I COMPROMISE?”
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Rule 8: CIVIL WARS IN THE ARAB WORLD ARE NOT ABOUT IDEAS LIKE DEMOCRACY OR COMMUNISM. THEY ARE ABOUT WHICH TRIBE GETS TO RULE.
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Rule 7: FAVORITE MIDDLE EAST SAYTING.
“ We were just about to stand up to the bad guys when you stupid Americans did that stupid thing. Had you Americans not done that stupid thing, we would have stood up, but now its to late. It’s all your fault for being so stupid.”
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Rule 6: IN THE MIDDLE EAST THE EXTREMIST GO ALL THE WAY, THE MODERATES JUST GO AWAY.
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Rule 5: NO CEASE FIRE ANYWERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS WORTH THE PAPER ITS WRITTEN ON. IF YOU SPEAK ABOUT IT, IT WILL BE BROKEN BEFORE TWO PEOPLE HEAR IT.
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Rule 4: IN THE MIDDLE EAST NEVER TAKE A CONCESSION EXCEPT OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE PERSON DOING THE CONCEDING
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Rule 3: IF YOU CANNOT EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO MIDDLE EASTENERS WITH A CONSPIRACY THEORY THEN DON’T TRY TO EXPLAIN IT AT ALL , THEY WON’T BELIEVE IT.
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Rule 2: IF YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS TELLS YOU TO THINK THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS IS A STRAIGHT LINE, YOU CANNOT GO TO IRAQ, IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, SYRIA OR ANYWHERE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. YOU CAN GO TO GERMANY, KOREA OR JAPAN.
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Rule 1 : WHAT PEOPLE TELL YOU IN PRIVATE IS IRRELEVANT. ANYTHING SAID TO YOU IN ENGLISH, IN PRIVATE DOESN’T COUNT.
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Because he is a Trump appointee
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If you voted for him and got fired.. you deserve it
If you did not my heart truly goes out to you, I hope the legal system gets you your job back
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Well, maybe if the terrorist orange headed cock would stop doing illegal shit he wouldn’t have injunctions put against him duh
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I believe we had 80 some combat missions in Korea and 40 some combat missions in Vietnam, but he flew a lot of stuff bear cats PBY you name it
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Old Team Weapon, very effective
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Well continued ketamine use will do that to you
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Fuck the Felon, come on McDonalds do your thing!
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I know !!
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How true
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Roger
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I will she got me on
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She’s there already 😂
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Ohhh - could u let the wife know ?? Plz ?