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Approximately 10% of Sri Lanka is Muslim, in a few small pockets. More than that are Tamil spread over large distinct region. The Tamil insurrection lasted 26 years. Suppressing it cost up to 100,000 lives and more than that were expelled. Until now most Muslims in Sri Lanka and elsewhere have been passive when faced with radical voices, pleading personal innocence and not confronting the aggressive voices but rather claiming victimhood and fearing retribution. Having turned away from socialism, crushed rebellion, and instituted one of the fastest growing economies in Asia the people of Sri Lanka may be expected to have no sympathy for a scorpion that now threatens its host. The response may be decisive. It is possible that this will induce the Muslims to identify and expel the threats from their community. If that does not happen, if there is not a paradigm shift among Muslims, then we may see a wave of isolation and expulsion.

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Espionage kills good people. Some years ago your tax dollars, and glad for them, sent me to Munich. Oddly enough the Navy has a facility there, and ships are heavy. We have it because Munich was in the American Zone during the Occupation after WW-II. If you look at Google Maps for the city you will see on the East side of town a district called Bogenhausen. That is the best part of the city, like the East Side in NYC. There is a small park called the Shakespeare Park, because Germans are crazy and with the 19th century attitude towards "Kultur" they thought that Bill had to be German. That is where Adolph and Eva took evening walks. Facing the park is a house with a big flagpole. It was built in 1905 by a beer baron who was Jewish. He left town very fast in 1933. Smart guy. The house was taken over by the Hohenzolleren-Emden family, a cadet branch of the old royal family and a naval hero of the old regime. From what I read a respectable man. He was kicked out in 1944 and the SS moved in, so bad things happened in the basement and after the war the house, being owned by a banned organization, became the property of the US government. Once a year on the 4th of July we run up the flag and put on uniforms and hand out hot dogs to all and sundry. The rest of the time we sit there quietly in civilian clothes.

I get orders to report for Active Duty for Training from my Reserve Unit. My Welcome Aboard went, "Only tourists walk into the Hochbrau House. Real Muncheners go to the Augusteiner Garden. You are here to work." In three days I finished three weeks worth of work. It's government. So I asked for more work, which almost induced heart failure as no punk junior officer had ever asked for more work apparently. They gave me a clipboard and told me to take an inventory of the government property, desks chairs file cabinets etc. These were all solid ugly 1950s-'70s GSA issue. Down next to that basement, which had been turned into a weight room, I found the furnace room with boxes waiting for disposal. They were full of maps, now declassified, that were issued by the US Army during the war. They showed southern Poland, including the rail lines and the camps. We knew where they were. Another map was of the Adriatic coast from after the war. The map showed beach markings and times. It was clearly an operational chart for inserting agents.

Before WW-II the United States had almost no Intelligence Service. The State Department filed reports and the FBI kept an eye on Latin America. The military had attaches, and ONI had an adventure in Cuba but very little by way of Commando or HUMINT capacity. The acknowledged masters at that were the British. We became their pupils when the war broke out and the British helped set up train the American OSS. During the war the OSS sent agents to meet with the Partisans fighting nazis across Europe. After the war the Iron Curtain came down and suddenly we had no idea what was happening in Eastern Europe. This was during the transition period between the wartime OSS and what became the CIA. Someone got the bright idea to send some of our guys back to see their old friends and gather some information. John le Carré wrote a novel with a similar plot.

Remember that we were very close to the British and to some extent under their tutelage. There was a liaison officer between British and American Intelligence. His name was Kim Philby. He was a Soviet Spy, one of the Cambridge Five Ring along with MacLean Burgess Blunt and Cairncross. The Russians were waiting on the beaches for our men. Every man on that operation died. I was holding their death certificate.

Comment on Instapundit: "OH THANK GOODNESS — ANOTHER TEN-YEAR EXTENSION. Beto O’Rourke Warns: Only 10 Years Left to Act on Climate Change."

Who stole those two years? I suspect Senator Iselin.

Time for the Delta's of Faber College to throw an End of The World Party.
Ask those Coeds, do they really want to die virgins?

Johnny: "Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Toto! It's a twister! It's a twister!"