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09.10.2010 - 00:59 | abortschtastic1 - fudge dumplingsBased on the title I would have assumed this movie was about a guy who eats whole a bag of flamin' hot cheetos then takes a porcelain splintering thunder dump, but I got problems that go way back.
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09.10.2010 - 02:15 | Dead Planet - euh...
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09.10.2010 - 02:23 | Chris P BaconI have a VHS camcorder, since that puts whatever random scenes I record until the tape runs out at the same budget and screenwriting effort as this film, how to I get mine published on DVD with subtitles?
First it needs a title... "Thesp-filled Togarama". That'll make sure it's too difficult for reviewers to get in one take.
09.10.2010 - 02:26 | frozencookieWatching this, at one point I think the guy tries to be artistic and showing the killers mind with those weird sequences, but it just looks ridiculous and not fitting at all.
I bet those guys were sitting in a beergarden and suddenly had the brilliant idea of making a movie.
And I don't know why, but I think those guys are from Sachsen =D
Great review Brad!
09.10.2010 - 05:48 | Ikezu SenninThey can't be from Saxony. By the time this movie was made, Germany was still divided, and the cars are made from metal and not from papermaché (Trabant), so I think it's safe to say this is a West-German movie.
Furthermore Saxonians have a quite distinctive/godawful accent, and I could not hear that.
09.10.2010 - 06:07 | TrangleC[quote=Ikezu Sennin]They can't be from Saxony. By the time this movie was made, Germany was still divided, and the cars are made from metal and not from papermaché (Trabant), so I think it's safe to say this is a West-German movie.
Furthermore Saxonians have a quite distinctive/godawful accent, and I could not hear that.[/quote]
Who said it is from Saxony?
09.10.2010 - 08:32 | Ikezu Senninfrozencookie did. (Sachsen = Saxony)
09.10.2010 - 08:39 | TrangleC - re:[quote=Ikezu Sennin]frozencookie did. (Sachsen = Saxony)[/quote]
Ah, i didn't see that, sorry.
Yeah, that movie looks like it was made in the early 80s.
09.10.2010 - 15:43 | Elihn[quote]Furthermore Saxonians have a quite distinctive/godawful accent, and I could not hear that.[/quote]
Haha, so true. So true. ;D
That one 'funny' dialogue between the weirdos almost killed me. I rarely tend to sigh out loud because of bad movie dialogues but this one was so utterly horrible, I just had to. Whargh!
What an awful movie. I am stunned. Also by the number of sequels. :eyebrow:
09.10.2010 - 02:49 | KatiileinAwesome review again... xD... Butcher Shitter... that is silly xD... now I understand the title card..... haha....
oooh they are speaking german... I did not notice that until some minutes into the review o.o
09.10.2010 - 02:57 | jaltesorensen - edited on an amiga-computerThough i have no data on this then i think that this amateour movie was edited on an AMIGA-computer. It seems that way to me, thinking of the effects in the start of the movie, the bubble-thingees and so on. The Amiga was quite popular in Germany at that time and it was the cheapest way to make effects and put it onto a VHS. Or that is my theory.
09.10.2010 - 03:20 | Germanfangreat revie but are you sure that movie was not from uwe boll? because i would say that it was his masterpiece
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09.10.2010 - 04:13 | nirobu - gaaaah! 7:58o_O =( T_T my eyes! why did i have to pause it at that specific moment
09.10.2010 - 04:37 | Mad Movie Murderur - wtf
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09.10.2010 - 18:39 | whatever42They probably thought the mask made it look more intimidating and would catch people's interest. They would be wrong of course, but that's my theory.
Seriously though Brad, this movie is one of the worst I've seen you review. Most of the movies you review at least try to have a plot, no matter how badly they fail. This one is even less than those other movies. Is there a word for less than nothing? :sigh:
Still, nice job on the review. Loved the Death Note reference and Bennett's last-second cameo. Keep up the good work. =)
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09.10.2010 - 07:24 | frozencookie - re:[quote=Ikezu Sennin]They can't be from Saxony. By the time this movie was made, Germany was still divided, and the cars are made from metal and not from papermaché (Trabant), so I think it's safe to say this is a West-German movie.
Furthermore Saxonians have a quite distinctive/godawful accent, and I could not hear that.[/quote]
Well, I know that Saxonians have a godawful accent, I live in Switzerland and heard that more than enough times =)
I doubt that Trabants were made of papermaché.
Anyways, I didn't say they were Saxonians(ok, I wrote "I think they are", but with the hightlight of "think"), but I just thought of them watching the review. Not that I could pinpoint from where they are, because honestly, it was nearly impossible to hear them talk, at least for me.
09.10.2010 - 07:58 | matt0044 - Hey, BradLoved the Death Note reference. Who would have thought you would like an Anime? Do you like any others?
09.10.2010 - 08:41 | LordOrin
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09.10.2010 - 09:44 | HarryCaneXD Death Note reference made my day
I luv German stuff. Films, Music etc. But that looks so horrid.
Its just a stream of a man with a blunt (plastic looking) butcher knife killing random people in a town... No a forrest - whatwut? And the blood looks like emutional paint being forced through tubes.
Wow, talk about sh!t. And why was she lissening to Red Red Wine? Its germany - I dont want to be sterotypical but should there be some Metal?
W T F*ck? He just pulled a baby outa his stomach. Thats just f*cked up.
And four sequel's. With the main character being in 6 movies?
THAT SHOULD HAPPEN :grr: WHERES THE DAMN PLOT? WERES THE DAMN CONTINUITY? WERES THE POINT? EXPLAIN MOVIE EXPLAIN :talkbiz: IS IT EXPLAINED IN THE THREE FOUR SEQUELS OR WHAT? EXPLAIN! GOD DAMN IT EXPLAIN :flame:
09.10.2010 - 09:51 | audibleunderwear
09.10.2010 - 09:57 | SpeedyEricI haven't heard of "Taintlight," but I can deffinately tell that it's a parody of "Twilight."
Nice job on "Violent Sh!t" in 5 Seconds. :cool:
The editing and directing of this film looks like it was done by a college student who has the lowest grade in his class.
7:57- o_O :sick: ...Well, at least you wern't dancing out on the front porch again.
13:01- That shot looks like it belongs on a very bad driving video game.
This film, to me is not just the most confusing, but also the worst shot-on-sh!teo film I have ever seen. Even worse than "Las Legas Bloodbath" and "Ax' Em" combined.
Poor Bennett.
09.10.2010 - 10:20 | August M.
09.10.2010 - 10:38 | Flaregun - An electric hedge trimmer? Really?So, Karl the "Butcher Shitter" at one point cuts a guy in half at the beltline with... an electric hedge trimmer? Uh, that won't work.
(For anyone who might not be familiar with the tool, my father happens to still own that exact same model hedge trimmer used in the film, and the way it works is: there's a large stationary sawtooth blade, and a somewhat smaller sawtooth blade that rapidly moves back & forth, and any small branches that can get down between the teeth of the large blade are cut by the teeth of the moving smaller blade. But the teeth of the moving blade don't even come up to the height of the teeth of the stationary blade, and the stationary blade isn't even sharpened at the edge, only in the "valleys" between the teeth. So if you whacked a guy in the side with that thing or even tried to "saw" it back & forth against his stomach, there's no way you could possibly do more than maybe slightly bruise him. In fact, unless you stick a finger (or other similarly-sized appendage) down in between the teeth of the larger blade, it is *literally* impossible to even draw blood with that thing. Hell, you can barely even cut a fucking hedge with it.)
But why the hate for "Red Red Wine"? There's nothing particularly wrong with that song.
09.10.2010 - 11:03 | dennisrossonero - great review as always!!!and one more thing.SAGE IS SICK!!!!
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09.10.2010 - 13:09 | ElHiveClearly the term "Made in Germany" didn't get it's commendation because of German movie makers.
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Webinar: Monitoring holistic social media conversations There's always something uncomfortable about watching an ancient institution when it comes over all entrepreneurial; there's usually something dad-at-the-disco about it. But hats off to the British Library for attempting to channel some of the post-Falklands exuberance, …
Nothing wrong with positive thinking
There is one thing which unites optimists and pessimists, they both get what they expect out of life.
Personally I believe positive thinking works, if you need to buy a book or spend money on a course to achieve it then maybe you're not ready for it.
Positive Feedback
All those who think the life coach stuff is a waste of time and space will go elsewhere, thus leaving the field clear for said life coaches and their punters. If they've achieved critical mass then no one else is going to bother to subscribe.
"I endeavour to remove spam-like posts."
Ah, I am forcibly reminded of Captain Cook's voyage of discovery in the good ship "Fuck that for a game of soldiers, what's on telly?"
... like any social networking site, is only as good as the people on it, and the areas within it only as good as the people contributing to them.
When everybody removes themselves from the BL's group, and there's literally nobody left in it but the spammers, it will die its own death; and then the BL will learn.
@Chris W
"I believe positive thinking works"
You can believe what you want, but until you present some evidence, you're just another idiot to me.
Of course, if you're sure of yourself, James Randi's got a million dollars with your name on it!
Strangely, nobody's managed to claim it yet...
This is difficult because I don't want to honour your comment by replying but on the other hand I don't want you to think that your considered riposte has got me sulking under a stone. So this is me ignoring you.
it all depends on your definition of "works"
For example: life coaching, self-help publications definitely "work" to make money for the coach or author. There is certainly no shortage of those who would partake of such services. Thinning the herd to extract those with the ability to pay is where the real skill comes in!
//think positive, now!
Oh no!
I've read your post, does that mean I have to pay you now?
AC for obvious reasons.
Thinking positively?
That would be like all those annoying football adverts (esp. the betting shop one)? That would be me on EuroMillions draw night?
I rather suspect it will take more than "thinking positive", candles, incense, and carefully aligned pebbles.
Or maybe I'm not thinking positively correctly? Is this think positive in terms of "I will win" or in terms of +ve polarity? Should I suck a battery on Friday night? I really want to win the lottery and do sod-all with my so-called life, so I think this calls for a big meaty D-cell. Alkaline, as those rechargables might have current but they don't have voltage, and if we're thinking positive it's the amount that counts, right? So picture me, Friday night, with a D-cell stuck in my gob. Looking like something out of a really low budget sci-fi flick, but... will it work?
It will!
(just may take a while)
That'll be 50 quid, please!
They seem to be positive value spammers, at least.
And why -not- help yourself?
Hi, anyone tell me where el reg's twitterfeed is?
Linked-in pathetic at spam reporting
Linked-in has no way to mark comments as spam and forces you to chase up the list owner who is the only person with authority to complain.
I have given up on most of the technical lists I subscribed to because of that low form of life known as the "Social Media Marketing Director".
Positive thinking British-style
Should make anyone feel better. Except for alcoholics perhaps (last line, bad idea).
Alcohol free version at
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Was The Beatles Guitar Feedback On 'I Feel Fine' Intentional Or Accidental?
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To my knowledge, it was the first example of feedback being used on a pop record – or any record for that matter. If you can find an earlier one, I'd like to know about it. This #1 song from the American [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Beatles[/lastfm] '65 album was unlike anything else that came before, and opened the door for[lastfm link_type="artist_info"] Jimi Hendrix[/lastfm], [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]The Who[/lastfm], and others to let feedback become part of the music. But was it planned or just an accident that worked?


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State Party Says Jump. Voters Say... Pass the Popcorn.
Gov. Rendell thinks that Sestak would "get clobbered" in next year's Democratic primary, ticking off the reasons why Sestak has "practically no chance" against Specter, who is well-known across the state and likely will have an inexhaustible supply of campaign cash.
"What in God's name is he doing?" Rendell exclaimed.
TJ Rooney, chair of the Democratic party, in January:
Rooney, who's backing Specter, said it would be a "travesty" to lose Sestak in Congress. He said he also believes Specter has proven his Democratic bona fides since jumping to the party last year.
"Looking specifically at the poll numbers, Sestak has picked up no momentum," Rooney said. "He's actually fallen behind ... if Joe Sestak were to run for re-election to Congress, he'd win."
The chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party issued a stern warning to members of his party this week, declaring that nominating Rep. Joe Sestak over Sen. Arlen Specter could have "cataclysmic" consequences for the party's ability to hold the Senate seat this fall.
As polls show Sestak, a second-term House member from the Philadelphia suburbs, cutting Specter's advantage to single digits, Chairman T.J. Rooney told POLITICO in an interview that "if we want to keep this seat in Democratic hands, the only person capable of delivering that victory is Arlen Specter."
"I can't say, honest and true, if the shoe's on the other foot, that we'll have the same race in November," Rooney said. "The results could be cataclysmic."
On a personal level, I have some affection for Arlen Specter. His personality vaguely reminds me of my late grandfather, who was one my favorite people in the world. So, frankly, I feel for him. But, still, this was a great night, and I take away a few things from it:
First, in races like this, where candidates are on TV a lot, the endorsement of various groups, and especially various politicians just doesn't matter that much.
Second, it is hard for long time Republicans to win Democratic primaries. That sounds obvious, but, I never got why anyone seemed to miss that point. Yes, Democrats had affection for Specter- but, that was when he was a Republican that we could occasionally count on to do something good, and to annoy his party. But, once you switch parties, you will be evaluated under a much different light. That happened, especially when Sestak did what we knew he would do- remind everyone that just six years ago, Bush and Santorum knew that they could "count on" him.
Now, we have Sestak. He is far from perfect, but he would be a pretty good Senator. And he is up against someone who has a view of government and the world that truly needs to be highlighted. It is time for all hands on deck.
Great job to us average Dems!
If Specter abandoned his Republican-ness because he wasn't sure he would win against Toomey in a primary, what the heck does the Dem party think in backing Specter against Toomey in November?
It will be a big Senate battle for sure in November, but at least in Joe Sestak we went with someone who would stand up and fight for the seat on his own terms.
Get Neil Oxman in a room with video of Pat Toomey
extolling deregulation of financial services and the economic wisdom of George W. Bush.
Make this a referendum on the Club For Growth.
Hell, make it a referendum on Bush v. Obama.
Get Sestak enough money to expose the weakness of his opponent, and he'll win.
Sestak's video torpedoes should look something like this
Imagine this, with archival footage of Toomey calling for bank deregulation on the stump, or for ending Social Security and Medicare with Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh.
Tie a teabag around the neck of Pat Toomey
and let him hang himself.
PA teabaggers can help Sestak and us from now until November because they can expose Toomey for the right wing nut he is, and they can expose the basic nuttiness of far right-wing ideology.
I love it when the consensus is dumb
I've been on a lot of calls with national people saying how they just weren't taking Sestak seriously. I would say, "You gotta understand Sestak. He's a machine."
I'd get my head patted over the phone.
National people, often, looking at only the most surface info, that is, polls, often pretend like they are so much more sophisticated.
Cases like this show that there is nothing like eyes on the ground.
This is a great story. Upsets are rare, but I love a good upset. Go Sestak!
This Too Will Pass, for the guts in your cerebrum.
Good Sestak analysis in the Times
If you were close to Delaware County during the last two elections, especially in 2006 when he beat Curt Weldon, it was hard to think of Sestak as an "upstart;" but I guess if you're running against a 30 year incumbent, you're going to seem like an upstart.
Katharine Q. Seelye, Jim Rutenberg, and Jeff Zeleny write a good, even-handed story.
Interesting: one reason the president didn't campaign at the end for Senator Specter is because David Axelrod concluded Sestak would be the stronger candidate in November against Pat Toomey.
Sestak's election
I didn't vote for either fella, so i just want to get that out there first.
That said, it is DELICIOUS to see the Sestak victory, because if nothing else can be said, the guy humiliated the PA Democratic establishment. And they deserved it: if it was up to TJ Rooney, we wouldn't have had a primary at all. Our candidate would have been picked for us.
if i wanted to live in the Soviet Union, I'd go buy a time machine.
That alone is reason to celebrate.


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On the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold futures for June delivery rose 0.45% to USD1,473.95 per troy ounce in Asian trading Tuesday after settling up 0.97% at USD1,467.65 a troy ounce in U.S. trading on Monday,
Gold futures were likely to test support USD1,461.75 a troy ounce, the earlier low, and resistance at USD1,484.75, Friday's high.
U.S. economic data out Monday was decent enough to buoy riskier assets and breath some more life into rallying bullion.
In U.S. economic news, the Commerce Department said personal incomes and spending each rose 0.2% in March. Economists expected the March reading of personal spending would be unchanged, but they expected a 0.4% increase in personal income.
The National Association of Realtors said its pending home sales index rose 1.5% to 105.7 last month, good for the highest reading in nearly three years. Signed contracts jumped 7% on a year-over-year basis.
EUR/USD rose, which also bolstered gold prices. In Italy earlier, borrowing costs fell to levels not seen since October of 2010 at an auction of five and 10-year bonds, mainly as confidence in the country grew after a new government was sworn in over the weekend and ended two months of political deadlock.
Elsewhere, research released by HSBC indicated lower gold prices are not likely to play a roll in paring India's current account deficit. India is the world's largest gold consumer.
Meanwhile, Comex silver for July delivery surged 1.35% to USD24.493 per ounce while copper for July delivery added 0.17% to USD3.226 per ounce.


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Thanks to the early polar vortex in Chicago this jacket has already gotten lots of wear. It seems to be comfy and warm and I bought it a bit big so that my daughter can get two years at least out of it. Unfortunately, on the second wearing, the snap ... read more
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Great hat for kids - warm and comfortable. look great.
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This year we welcome new General Manager, Ms. Naira Ghazaryan from S San Francisco, to the family at Hotel La Rose. She is a wonderful new addition and brings a wealth of hospitality knowledge and experience to Hotel La Rose. She joined our staff in September 2013. ! She has worked in hotels from the year 2000 until present. She currently works for Marin Management Inc which is based in Sausalito, CA. !
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Lawrence hotel with an indoor pool
Situated in Lawrence, this hotel is close to University of Kansas Memorial Stadium, Spencer Museum of Art, and Lawrence Arts Center. Also nearby are University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Lied Center of Kansas.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Holiday Inn Lawrence features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and complimentary wireless Internet access.
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Holiday Inn Lawrence provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
A business center is on site at this 3-star property. This business-friendly hotel also offers coffee/tea in the lobby, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Total number of rooms - 192
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Breakfast is available for a surcharge each morning.
Heartlands Garden Grill - This buffet restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast only.
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Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
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The 150 exhibitors at E3 had some of the most remarkable displays and booths (not like a booth at a carnival - more like a carnival in each booth!) we've seen, along with some terrific treats. Acclaim, for instance, had Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre on hand to sign autographs and promote NFL Quarterback Club '98. Midway countered with some guy named Gretzky, who was pushing a hockey game. Activision lured Bruce Willis to pump a new game at Planet Hollywood.


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If you're off on a skiing holiday and don't want to splash out on designer skiwear, check out our essential edit of the best high street skiwear. From stylish ski jackets to ski pants and the all important thermal clothing and ski accessories, we've rounded up a selection of the most affordable must haves.
Stretch Down Jacket, £79.90, by Uniqlo
Ski Trousers, £39.99, by H&M
Nebula Ski Goggles, £39.99, by Bolle
Basic Unisex Ski Gloves, £19.99, by Barts
SNO Belted Jacket, £95, by Topshop
Heatgen Long Sleeve Thermal Top, £14, by Marks and Spencer
Dewline Ski Pants, £130, by The North Face
Hooded Polar Windcheater, £69.99, by Superdry
Technical Ski Socks, £32 (for 2 pairs), by Sweaty Betty
One of our favourite classic neutrals, navy is such a great colour. Super versatile, it'll team effortlessly with a multitude of shades.
Carefully cut, although padded and down filled to keep you warm and cosy, the slimfit shape will ensure you retain a feminine silhouette and aren't totally swapped on the slopes.
One of the most affordable ski trouser options we've seen, this pair from H&M comes in either black or white and at under £40 you can afford to invest in both.
With their adjustable waist tabs, water repellent fabric and reflective trim, they aren't just fashionable, they're high tech too and perfect for any skier - whether you're a beginner or seriously skilled.
An absolute necessity, ski goggles are a must on the slopes to protect your eyes from the sun's harsh glare.
Anti fog and anti scratch, the lenses also have flow tech venting to prevent fogging. Practical and affordable, they're high up on our shopping list.
Water resistant and velcro fastening to ensure hands are kept protected and tightly secured, these ski gloves from Barts are a wise buy.
If you're opting for a head to toe winter white look, they're also available in white so you can coordinate your look with ease.
With its belted waist, this Topshop jacket has the look of a much more expensive tailored designer version.
Practical pockets give this style the edge, while the faux fur trimmed hood adds on trend detailing and a fashionable finish.
Thermals are an absolute must on a ski holiday and layered up are a great way to ensure you ward off winter's harsh chill.
Available in 10 ten shades, from black to cream and purple to pink, this long sleeve top from Marks and Spencer is lightweight, super soft and more importantly extremely insulating.
Slightly more expensive than other high street styles, these ski trousers from The North Face are perfect for serious skiers.
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The smallest of the nine Municipalities with only 793 inhabitants (2003 estimate) and an area of barely 3,31 km2. Montegiardino borders on the Municipalities of Fiorentino and Faetano and with the Italian towns of Sassofeltrio and Monte Grimano (Province of Pesaro-Urbino).
Montegiardino is a very characteristic area. Its narrow streets are well cared for. Along with Fiorentino, Faetano and Serravalle, Montegiardino was one of the "Castra Subdita", ex Malatesta castles, which became part of the San Marino territory in 1463 and since then are subject to the laws of the Republic. In order to conquer it from the Malatesta army, the San Marino army – together with army of Montefeltro – besieged the castle walls for a long period time, until, under orders of Federico d'Urbino, the castle was dismantled piece by piece. The ruins were recuperated only two centuries later, in 1647, by the rector of the nearby church which was situated outside the walls.
Sights to visit in Montegiardino are the castle gate, the parish of San Lorenzo, the narrow streets and alleyways. A curiosity: "Locanda dell'Artista", a rather unique hotel, a mix between a bed & breakfast and a design statement, is situated inside Palazzo Mengozzi. The hotel has three double rooms and two suites; each dedicated to famous modern and contemporary artists.
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Unlike January, there doesn't seem to be a spell of mild weather, more like a shot. It's interesting. December is half and half, January withh longer colder spells than mild, then February cold most of the time with some brief mild interludes it seems. I think it feels like a much longer winter than the past 5, they had specific cold spells, eg 2010 but cold weather returned rarely and did not bring consistent snow and ice unlike this year. But it hasn't been very cold so far I terms of minimum temps.
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Interview: Robert Gates
The U.S. defense secretary tells Foreign Policy when he's leaving the Pentagon -- and what he hopes to leave behind.
In an exclusive interview, Robert Gates, the first U.S. defense secretary to serve both a Republican and a Democratic president, tells military writer Fred Kaplan that he hopes to leave office next year, possibly as early as January, but certainly by the end of 2011.
"It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012," he says. "This is not the kind of job you want to fill in the spring of an election year."
Gates, according to Kaplan's profile of the secretary for Foreign Policy, has "changed the way the Pentagon does business and the military fights wars more than any defense secretary since Robert McNamara" in less than four years at the Pentagon's helm -- and he has "extraordinary influence" on President Barack Obama, despite their vastly different personal histories.
Gates also shares, for the first time, the details of his summer 2009 turnabout on Afghanistan, the war that he knows will define his legacy. An article by military historian Frederick Kagan, arguing that the U.S. military invasion was nothing like that of the Soviets and that comparisons between the two interventions are fatally flawed, changed the defense secretary's mind about the war.
But, Gates adds, if there are no concrete signs of progress with the recent U.S. troop surge, then he will recommend a change of course for Obama's year-end Afghan strategy review. "We're just not going to plunge ahead with exactly the same strategy if it's clear it's not working," Gates tells Kaplan.
The interview was conducted July 12 in Gates's office at the Pentagon, several weeks before he announced a sweeping series of cuts to key programs, including the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Excerpts:
Fred Kaplan: You may remember the last time I was here, which was late in 2007. You had one of these countdown meters. And I asked you at the time -- I said, you know, there are some people on the Hill who would like you to stay for whatever the next term is. And this line of yours has been quoted a fair amount. You said, "Well, I never say never, but the circumstances under which that would happen are inconceivable to me." "Inconceivable" is a pretty absolute word. So what happened? Why are you ... here? Why did you stay?
Robert Gates: Once there started being speculation around that time that I might be asked to stay no matter who was elected, I confess that I started what ended up being eight- or nine-months-long covert action. And it was to try and build a wall of clarity that I did not want to stay high enough that nobody would ever ask me.
FK: (Laughs.) Well, "inconceivable" goes quite a ways up there.
RG: And I, you know, I was very consistent for a long period there in saying that, because I really didn't want to be asked, knowing that if I were asked, I would say, "Yes." For the same reason I never hesitated -- you know, I wrestled with the [director of national intelligence] job a couple of weeks back in January of 2005. The instant [National Security Advisor Stephen] Hadley called me about taking this job, I said, "Yes." I just -- in the middle of two wars, kids out there getting hurt and dying, there was no way that I was going to say, "No."
And I felt the same way going into 2008 -- that if somebody asked, I worried a lot about the baton getting dropped in the changeover between administrations. And so I knew if the president, whoever was elected president, asked me to stay that I would say, "Yes." Now, you know, the timing was always sort of vague in my mind: six months, a year, just to provide a smooth transition and so on -- [it] ended up being longer than that.
FK: But here you are. The war -- the Afghanistan war is now yours to a much greater degree than the Iraq war ever was. You've got these budget initiatives going, which I guess are in the very early stage. One can see them going on for another couple of years. I mean, it looks like you might be here for a fairly long time. If the president said, "Could you please stay till the end of the term?" -- I mean, is that, is it different; is the question, "Would you please come join my administration?" different from "Would you please stay a little bit longer?"
RG: Well, first of all, I'm a big believer in the old line that the cemeteries are full of indispensable men. And, you know, the truth is this budget initiative really gained a full head of steam over a year ago when I went out in early April and announced something like 33 program changes or cuts or caps. And we got 31 of the 33 through the Hill, and I'm back for the other two.
And so what I'm undertaking now builds on that. The programs really got a full head of steam in April of 2009. So that's had time to mature. This next piece is really a reflection of the economic condition of the country and an effort to avoid having the military gutted as it has been kind of after every conflict. And so the idea here is to preserve the top line that's been agreed -- that I've agreed with the president.
But within that budget, because it takes 2 to 3 percent real growth to sustain the force structure and future investments to find efficiencies in the overhead, unnecessary overhead where we can plus up the combat support capabilities 2 to 3 percent of the growth. So that's kind of what this series of initiatives that began with the speech at the Eisenhower Library is about.
And frankly, you know, these things are -- I'm going to strike early. I'm going to announce a bunch of things. You know, I've been around bureaucracy long enough to know what the strategy is in terms of waiting me out. To tell you the truth, that strategy would be in place if I were here four or eight more years. So I intend to start fast and with some fairly significant decisions to make it clear I won't be outwaited, that this is going to happen.
The point of all of that is I think that by next year I'll be in a position where, you know, we're going to know whether the strategy is working in Afghanistan. We'll have completed the surge. We'll have done the assessment in December. And it seems like somewhere there in 2011 is a logical opportunity to hand off.
I think that it would be a mistake to wait until January 2012. First of all, I think we might have trouble getting the kind of person they want if there's a possibility that they might only be in the job for a year. You know, who knows what the election situation will look like. But also I just think this is not the kind of job you want to fill in the spring of a presidential election. So I think sometime in 2011 sounds pretty good.
FK: OK, I'll be back here in the winter to remind you of that statement. Another thing: Early on in the Obama administration even, you were very suspicious about more troops in Afghanistan. You know, you -- I think you were looking at it through the prism of your own experience in Afghanistan, which was watching the Soviet empire fall apart there. [You gave] congressional testimony saying, you know, it's not good to have a really big footprint. This can be seen as an occupation, et cetera. What changed your mind, and when did that happen?
RG: Well, first, I would say that there were four issues that I raised with President Bush in my interview with him for this job that were on my mind. The first was Iraq; the second was Afghanistan; the third was that the Army and the Marine Corps weren't big enough to do the jobs that they've been given. And the fourth was the National Guard. But Afghanistan was one of those, and I felt that Afghanistan was being neglected. I went out there in December right after I was confirmed, or right after I was sworn in, and in the spring of 2007 extended one brigade and added another brigade to Afghanistan.
Before the end of the Bush administration, we upped ... I think when I came to the job there were about 17,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. And President Bush had authorized up to about 40,000, in that ballpark. So, as we could find the troops, we were adding them, but obviously because of the stress of Iraq, we didn't have as many. So we have been adding troops pretty steadily ... as many as we could. It wasn't enough.
I still felt the way that you described. And I would say that there were two things that really caused me to change my view. The first was that during the course of the Afghan-Pakistan review, people sent me a lot of different articles and things, in addition to all of the tons of briefing papers that were prepared. I was reading a lot of articles. And one that I read -- and I can't even remember who wrote it [he later remembered it was by military historian Frederick Kagan] -- really had an impact on me because it reminded me of the Soviet experience in a way that I hadn't -- that I had forgotten about, that this was an outside invasion, they killed a million Afghans. They forced 5 million to become refugees. They basically destroyed the country and tried to impose an alien ideology. And clearly that's not -- any of that -- none of that is what we are about in Afghanistan. And so the way we were conducting the war made a big difference.
Then complementary to that was [Gen. Stanley] McChrystal's own analysis and assessment. In talking to me about -- and this tied into his desire to dramatically reduce civilian casualties, because I had felt all along, and it was kind of the basis of my previous view, that once the Afghans come to see you as an occupier, then you're toast. And McChrystal's whole approach was avoiding that. How do you -- how do you demonstrate to the Afghans you're there as [their] partner and their liberator rather than the oppressor? And his strategy for doing that seemed to me to be really compelling. So those two things in particular, some other things that I read -- I think really made a difference for me.
FK: This is maybe a stupid question, but how do you think it's going?
RG: I think that we have the right strategy. I have been surprised at the fact that the European -- you know, nobody beat the Europeans up more than I did in 2007 and 2008 over Afghanistan. But the truth is, the foreign partners had about 17,000 troops in Afghanistan when I came to this job, maybe somewhat fewer, and now they have nearly 50,000. They seem to feel, when I had a defense ministers meeting in Brussels and they get briefed by -- they were briefed last time by McChrystal -- you had 40-some defense ministers walking out feeling like this is probably going to work.
FK: Prime ministers might not feel that way. That is the problem.
RG: Well, prime ministers -- you know, there are a lot of coalition governments and so the situation is fragile. But what's amazing is given the fragility of a number of those governments, how strong they have stuck to it. And I would say, you know, it's a hard fight, but I believe that by December, [Gen. David] Petraeus will be able to demonstrate that it is the right strategy and that we are making progress. And as everybody has said, you know, no rosy lenses for this.
This is a very hard fight. We're going to lose a lot of kids. But the Afghans are losing a lot of kids, too. They are in this fight. It's not just us fighting it for them. And, I, you know, I, not surprisingly, take issue with some of the descriptions that we don't have a clear strategy and so on. I think the strategy is quite clear, and it is to stabilize Afghanistan and build up their internal capacity so that they can prevent the Taliban and al Qaeda from coming back. We don't need to turn it into a modern nation-state or anything else.
And everybody -- all of our partner nations and I think everybody in this government -- would agree that two things are central to success. One is building up the Afghan National Security Forces, which is going pretty well, and governance, which is going, but not as well. It's still moving in the right direction, but a lot slower than we would like.
FK: [Counterinsurgency expert] David Kilcullen, I think, quotes Bernard Fall on Vietnam, [who says] that we're not being outfought -- we're being out-governed by the insurgents. You know, they have quite a system; they have all this other stuff --
RG: The difference is that, well, without drawing a comparison to Vietnam ... the Afghan people hate the Taliban. They've been there, done that, and did not like it. So all the polls that we have show about 10 percent of the people supporting the Taliban. So this is about intimidation and control of the population. Not a popularity contest.
FK: Back to your other endeavors. So you said you're going to be making some more announcements soon, more speeches and so forth. Because the Eisenhower [Library] speech -- I looked at that and it's all good ideas, but it didn't really ... this is about getting rid of a lot of generals and these ridiculous commands that are in nice capitals of Europe and so forth that don't really do anything anymore. It didn't seem to add up to a whole lot, and it's also the kind of thing that just pisses off a lot of officers and gets their -- you know, it's the old line about how waste is the hardest thing to cut because it's there for a reason because people have little empires around them.
RG: I'm looking at commands; I'm looking at defense agencies. I mean, I'm just not going to be down in the weeds on this stuff because I want people to know that I'm serious from the get-go.
In the Navy League speech [in May 2010] I probably -- in trying to be provocative, I probably contributed to a misunderstanding of what I was trying to say which was -- you know, I'm not going to cut any aircraft carriers. But the reality is, if Chinese highly accurate cruise and ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles, can keep our aircraft carriers behind the second island chain in the Pacific, you've got to think differently about how you're going to use aircraft carriers. And what I was trying to provoke was people's thinking about how do you fight 21st-century wars? You can't fight them the way you were thinking you were going to fight them in the '80s or the '90s.
FK: Well, why aren't you going to cut any aircraft carriers?
RG: Well, as I said when it came to military retirement, I may be bold, but I'm not crazy. But also, you know, there is a powerful argument for the carriers as a manifestation of American presence. And the support they have provided in both Iraq and Afghanistan has been tremendous. Think of air support coming off of those carriers.
The most salient point I think from in terms of what I was talking about [at] the Navy League is when they started out with the DDG-1000 destroyer. And they went from an original program of 32 DDG-1000s.... Then it went to seven. Now it's three. And you know, you don't find Stalin being quoted very often in this building. But he had a line that at a certain point, quantity takes on a quality all of its own.... The point is that we need more platforms. We can't afford $2 billion bombers where we can only buy 20 of them. That's the message I've been trying to get across to people: that we load more and more technology on fewer and fewer platforms so that if you lose one, let's say the B-2, with one airplane you've lost 5 percent of your force. What's wrong with that picture?
FK: During the F-22 fight I was telling people that, you know, there were Air Force generals who if you told them, OK, you can have the F-22 or everything else in the budget, they were people who would take the F-22.
RG: I noticed.
FK: (Chuckles.) But what's been the most surprising thing you've come across, or what's been the most resistant -- what have you found the most frustrating?
RG: I'd flip that. I'd say the thing that has been the most surprising has been the buy-in of the senior military and civilian leadership of the department in what we're trying to do -- and their willingness to look very hard at a lot of sacred cows and to think differently about the way we do business.
FK: What accounts for that do you think? Is it a generational thing?
RG: Well, no. I think in part it is -- I mean these are smart people and they understand the pressures that are going to come to bear on the department because of the national economic situation and the deficits. But I think they also -- they now see themselves that they can't afford $2 billion airplanes, $3 billion destroyers, and so on. That they have to make some hard choices, and they can't have this whole panoply of programs that are over budget and overdue. And, you know, as money becomes tighter, money spent on over-budget items is a real cost. I mean, it's not something they're going to make up in the next budget, next year's budget. And so I think that it's a significant measure of both fiscal and strategic reality.
FK: So what's the remaining sources of resistance then? I mean, are they not falling over on this one?
RG: Well, obviously, an important piece is Congress. But even there, I believe attitudes are beginning to change. You know, members of Congress are still going to protect -- try to protect jobs and industries in their own states, contracts in their own states. But I think the willingness of other members to go along with that is diminishing, given the economic challenges that the country faces. And then, you know, I mean there's just the inertia of the bureaucracy. I'm sure there are some people down there trying to thwart what I'm trying to do, but I think that's a minimal problem.
FK: Really?
RG: I think that it's more because their leadership is supportive.
FK: Is some of this because there's just a different -- I mean, you know, like [Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton] Schwartz, you know, for the first 12 years of the Air Force, or I may be adding the numbers wrong, but every chief of staff was a [Strategic Air Command] bomber pilot. After that, everyone was a [Tactical Air Command] fighter pilot. Here's a guy you know, air mobility and special ops, you know, this is now the chief of staff. You've got more pilots being trained to do joysticks in Arizona than actually flying real airplanes. You've got the Army -- you know, the tank guys are not in control anymore. I mean, is part of it -- I mean, wars do [cause] a shift in culture, and these two have [caused] an enormous shift, probably --
RG: I think that's absolutely correct.
FK: So that changes -- so it actually has reverberated back to the culture of the Pentagon, too.
RG: And I think it has created some open space, if you will, in which I can operate on these things because they understand the world has changed. And further that even the most sophisticated threats in the future are not going to be blunt force, head to head, plane on plane, ship on ship kinds of conflicts.
FK: That's more understood? I mean the China thing used to be the rationale for justifying, you know, a huge Navy, a huge Air Force. Does that -- do you find that diminishing or --
RG: Well, you know, I mean, my question with the F-22 was so if you do get into a combat in China, where are you going to put it?
FK: So what would you hope would be your legacy of all this? I mean, are people looking back at the Gates era or whatever --
RG: Well, as a historian, I'm generally inclined to let the historians think about that. Or writers.
FK: Wait, you just contradicted yourself. If you are a historian, I mean, that makes you perfectly capable of commenting.
RG: (Laughs.) Yeah, but at some distance. You remember the old line [Chinese leader Zhou Enlai gave] when asked about the French Revolution?
FK: Too soon.
RG: Well, first of all, I never forget that the primary task that I was given when I took this job was to put Iraq in a better place. And the nation has been engaged in two wars every single day I have been secretary. So the outcome of those two wars I think will be huge elements people look at. And by the way, if I stay just until January --
FK: January of what?
FK: Mm, hmm.
RG: Nice try. (Laughs.) If I stay until January of 2011, I will have been in this job -- I'm the 22nd secretary of defense, and I'll have been in the job longer than all but four of my predecessors. And those four are Robert McNamara, Don Rumsfeld, Cap Weinberger, and Charles E. Wilson. (Laughter.)
I think the toughest thing in public life is knowing when to dance off the stage. And to leave when people say, "I wish you weren't leaving so soon," instead of "How the hell do we get that guy out of there?" And the other aspect of this is, like I said, two separate wars for every day I've been on the job is very wearing. And there's a certain point at which you just run out of energy.
[Then there's] this rebalancing and all these initiatives with respect to the budget, trying to get rid of programs that don't measure up, aren't needed, or at least cap them in terms of the numbers. And I suppose a third would be -- and I certainly didn't intend this when I came here -- a rigorous reinforcement of the principle of accountability. It's a very, very rare thing for a senior person to be fired in this town, and I've done a bunch.
FK: When we were talking about the surge in Iraq last time [for my New York Times Magazine article] -- I think we talked and I followed you around a bit in November, December 2007. So the surge had begun, but it was unclear. I looked back at this piece -- I don't think it mentions Afghanistan at all -- [and] one of the things that we talked about a lot was ... the fear that we might be stuck in Iraq for a very, very long time. And you wanted there to be a sustainable presence, but with lots of troop withdrawals so that people will feel like joining the Army again --
RG: What I was most concerned about was the same thing that concerned [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger about Vietnam, which was that a clear American failure in Iraq would have catastrophic strategic consequences for us in the region and globally -- basically turning tail, precipitously leaving the country. That was my biggest worry.
FK: But you thought that there had to be some troop -- you were talking about surge as a prelude to troop reductions so that a sustainable force could be left in place for a long period of time. I mean, do you see the surge in Afghanistan as the same, or is that a different dynamic?
RG: I think that what the surge allows us to do in Afghanistan, or gives us the opportunity to do, is to reverse the momentum of the Taliban and degrade their capabilities. And with any luck, that'll happen over a period of time during which the Afghan forces build capability, in no small part because they're partnering with us.
And so that we can begin in July of 2011 to thin our forces, as the president has said, in a gradual way depending on the conditions on the ground, but that allows that Afghan capability to continue to grow as we and our allies slowly reduce the number of forces that we have there.
That provides a -- I mean, I see the process of transition in Afghanistan being similar to Iraq in which we are in the lead, then we're partnering, then they're in the lead, and then we're in tactical overwatch, and then strategic overwatch, which is essentially how it played out in Iraq. And that'll take some time, but by the same token, the one thing that I've made clear to everybody is that I'm not going to support a strategy that leads to a stalemate. That if we're not making forward progress, even if it's slow --
FK: Even if it's this strategy, the strategy in place.
RG: Yeah.
FK: So the assessment comes back in December saying this is really in stasis, we're just not where we're --
RG: If we're not making any headway, then I think we have to look at making adjustments.
FK: But what does that mean? Leaving?
RG: Well, I don't know. But we're just not going to plunge ahead with exactly the same strategy if it's clear it's not working. And my view is that I think we are going to be able to show that it's working and that we're moving forward, even if it's tougher and slower than we had thought.
FK: Early on, like the first year of the Obama administration, one thing that struck a lot of people was that there seemed to be pretty harmonious relations in all the branches. I mean, there weren't these, you know, knockout, drag-out fights between the State Department and the Pentagon or the State Department and the White House. Everybody seemed to be on the same [page]. There was some thinking that, well, when Afghanistan gets going, there might be -- and there were -- some disagreements. But do you still -- is it serious? I mean, are there pockets that are just still kind of resisting the whole thing and looking for reversals of the strategy when the opportunity allows?
RG: Maybe at lower levels.
FK: But not -- nothing real serious?
RG: Not at the principals level, no. And everybody is supportive of the strategy. You know, I -- I mean, I had a very good relationship with [former Bush administration officials] Steve Hadley and Condi Rice. I've got a very good relationship with Secretary Clinton, [National Security Advisor] Jim Jones. Partly I'm just not a very turfy person. I never have been.
[When I was at the National Security Council,] I remember one meeting I was chairing where I said at one point, "Geez, I don't know what came over me there for a moment. I thought we actually all worked for the same president." (Laughter.) And so I've always thought that some of these fights were pretty -- they consume a lot of energy and produce a lot of heat, but they don't accomplish very much.
FK: What was different -- or was it so different -- about the eight or nine or however many meetings there were with the Afghan [Strategy] Review? What I heard from other people is that, you know, these were pretty sharp discussions, that there were real questions left on the table, and that's what had to be done at the next meeting and so on.
But you once -- you also told me that when you ran deputies' meetings, your rule was one hour, an action decision at the end of the meeting. And [former National Security Advisor Brent] Scowcroft told me that you and he kind of figured out how it should conclude at the end of the meeting anyway. (Laughs.)
RG: We concluded how the meeting should end before it started.
FK: That's what I mean, yeah. But your goal was to make it seem that everybody else --
RG: And then to check it with the president. (Laughs.)
FK: But this [the Afghanistan review] was a very different procedure. But, I mean, how did you --
RG: First of all, the meetings weren't interminable. The meetings were generally an hour, hour and a half, occasionally two hours. They were very focused -- lots of hard questions being asked. And I think everybody in the room learned as we went along. I mean, as you might suspect, the July 2011 deadline was a hard hurdle for me to get over because I'd fought against deadlines with respect to Iraq consistently. But I became persuaded that something like that was needed to get the attention of the Afghan government, that they had to take ownership of this thing.... And I recognized the risks. And there are risks associated with that. There's risks associated with everything in war.
It went on a long time, but I didn't feel like time was being wasted at those meetings, that there was a genuine exchange going on. And there were hard questions, sharp questions being asked and sharp differences of view. But it was always [about] people looking for the right way.
FK: I don't think there's been a secretary of defense who's gone, not just from one president to the next, but shifting parties. There are some things that needn't even be said about the analytical style of one president versus the other. But the thing that's interested me, too, is that, you know, [in] your last year [under Bush] you did all these speeches about what your successor should do, and then you become the successor and you actually set out to do them. What do you know?
RG: I think the expression was that I punted all these balls to my successor and discovered I was the receiver.
FK: (Laughs.) OK. But how has the atmosphere of the two administrations been different? I mean, do you find your -- is the way you do your job different in some fundamental way?
RG: I don't think so.
FK: No? I mean, I remember you used to go over to the White House a lot, and you hated it. I think it was mainly to make sure that [then Vice President Dick] Cheney wasn't doing shit behind your back.
RG: No, that's not true.
FK: But you didn't like it. I get the feeling that these are less unpleasant transfers of --
RG: No, I don't think that's fair. You know, we had a lot of good meetings in the Bush administration on very tough issues, many of the same issues. In a way, one of the reasons I haven't changed the way I do business is because the issues are the same; I mean, the really tough ones. It's the wars. It's Iran. It's North Korea. It's how you deal with the Russians and the Chinese. The agenda's still essentially the same -- terrorism. And, you know, there are -- you know, this administration, if anything, has been even more aggressive in going after the terrorists.
One of the things that I always warned holdovers about when I was in government before [was that] the last thing that a new administration wants to hear is, "We tried that and it won't work." And so it becomes a matter of style in terms of how you say that.... I say "It's been an option. The last administration tried it this way, and that way didn't work." But there's more than one way, perhaps, to do this. You just have to -- one of the dangers of being a holdover is that you talk too much. And I've tried to avoid that, and I hope I've been successful. (Laughter.)
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Diya Aur Baati Hum: Will Suraj and Sandhya win Bhabho's heart this time?1 year ago 0
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We wonder if the problems in Bhabho's life will force her to bring Suraj and Sandhya back home Bhabho (Neelu Vaghela) is determined that she will… Read Article ▶
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After her wish to get back to studies for becoming an IAS officer was supported by her husband, Sandhya now wants to make Suraj happy Suraj (Anas… Read Article ▶
Diya Aur Baati Hum: Suraj and Sandhya to kiss under the mistletoe!2 years ago 1
Yeah, we know they're a tad late because hello, Christmas is over! Even so, we couldn't help speculating about the juicy details of this intimate… Read Article ▶
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