Thursday Wide Awake

Good morning William Stroock dot BlogSpot dot com fans. We finally got some sleep last night by popping two of the thing we usually take before bed. 

After back to back days at the pool with the Stroocklettes, we are tanned, rested and ready. 

Starting Operation Tet right now is a bad idea. Doing so will leave us with another project we feel we have to finish so we can get to the things we need to finish. So we'll just switch back to The Final Storm beginning 8 September, which is when school starts here. 

First Afghansy question. When the Taliban took over in 1996 the place went dark. How will Taliban rule play out when people have cell phones? Will it matter?

Second Afghansy question. More than half the population was born after the Taliban took over in 1996. Meaning more than half of the population really doesn't remember Taliban rule. What does this mean for Taliban rule now?

So, you wanted out of Afghanistan. So did this blog. They still hate us, you know. Wutcha gunna do when the next mass casualty terrorist attack happens.

We are aware that some Afghan refugees are coming to Fort Dix. That's about half an hour away from us. This is fine. We assume these are intelligencia types with their families. [You fool. You absolute fool-Ed] Again, we are surrounded by immigrants so it just doesn't bother us.

What Will's Watching, Voyager: We're towards the end of Season-2. We'd call it, OK. Pretty good a solid B (so far). Voyager is basically TNG, but heading in the opposite direction. That is, producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga are doing a show similar to TNG, but in a different way. This is pretty much what we do with World War 1990 novels.

An Afghan for Thursday

Baaah...We awake sore and groggy. Another rough night. 

This blog calls on the Taliban to respect women's and LBGT rights in Afghanistan. Don't laugh. We said don't laugh.

How many of the Afghan refugees and so-called refugees do we take in? We've got to take some but not....oh who the hell are we kidding? This is going to be like the Mariel Boatlift. Another Biden disaster is in the offing. Via Instapundit, enjoy this tale of Afghan refugees in Germany...As for the solutions offered at the end of the article, yeah sure.

We are told there's already a resistance forming in the Panjshir Valley in eastern Afghanistan. It's led by Ahmed Massoud, son of Ahmed Shah Massoud, our main ally in the 80's.  Do we help? Looking at the map, we're not sure how. But why not, right? We have written about this. This is our base for World War 1990: Operation Tet.

Speaking of the Russians and Afghanistan, here's our latest collusion: 'On 8 July president Biden assured the press, ‘The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.’ Later that month, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared, ‘The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country, and we will continue to support the Afghan Security Forces where necessary in accordance with the guidance from the president and the secretary of defense.’ Last Thursday American intelligence officials warned that Kabul could fall within 60-90 days. It took the Taliban less than a week to roll into Kabul.' Click on through to Kabul/Moscow nexus. 

What Will's Watching, Star Trek Voyager-Season 1.  We haven't watched Voyager since the 90's and stopped watching several seasons before the finale. Till this day we have no idea how Voyager ends. We'll go into more detail in other posts, but 15 episodes in Voyager pleasantly surprises us. Here's why Voyager works. Unlike TNG there's no kinks to work out. Everyone already knows what works and what doesn't. This is a series in top form from the get-go. Also, we think we like Voyager now because, frankly, we're 48 not 24. Lemme put it this way. In 1996 we though Janeway was gross. Not so much now. 3/4

Battle Extraordinaire

Voyager was always a disappointment. A show which produced not one interesting character and barely an interesting moment. They used gimmickry to keep the show going, and of course brought back the Borg.

Very mid to late 90's.

Here's Voyager's return:

We liked the 'all hands on deck' call and the star ships arriving from across sector 001. We always enjoy massed Star Fleet ships. Still, it's kinda meh. Just like Voyager.