Deconstructing the psyche of la fair
Rangudu wrote:The thing about C.Fair is that she is a maverick. That is why she refused an offer to be Holbrooke's TSP advisor in the early days of the Obama admin (she's a Democrat).
R man, IMHO, c fair is a 'contrarian' rather than a maverick. she gets her kicks by opposing any plausibly reasonable view at any given televised forum. the higher the authority she gets to duel with, the more delighted she is in offering a contrarian view. luckily for her, geopolitics is a complex subject with highly nuanced aspects where anybody with a fair bit of knowledge and a very good intellect (I grant her that she possesses both these qualities) can successfully don the mantle of a 'contrarian'. if she were a physicist or a mathematician, she couldn't have been a contrarian - unless she reached the levels of Stephen Hawking etc. But in geopolitics, especially the murky world of pakiland, any reasonably informed academic can easily pass for an expert.
What is her contrarian modus operandi? in geopolitics, it is easy to disagree with anybody and anything even if the two parties are in a 'violent agreement'. She simply picks up anything that comes as a softball statement and pounces on it and leads the other party to the path of disagreement.
She is also an uber exhibitionist, especially in front of a south asian crowd. she uses her substantial knowledge of subcontinental languages to constantly try to impress the desis in any crowd. mind you, the goras couldn't care less if she was able to speak swahili also. all her urdu gaali antics are purely for the purpose of impressing the already swooning desi/paki crowd. As an uber exhibitionist, she 'needs' to 'floor' her audience, not just 'impress' it. Hence the intermittent use of chaste or rustic urdu and profanities that are bound to 'floor' the paki mards. She also gets kicks in talking the 'mard' lingo of gaali-galoch. Here she is trying to impress the goras as well. She takes efforts to transliterate her urdu swear words for the benefit of her gora audience. also her english itself is peppered with coarse language - not the F bombs, mind you! There are a million american women who freely use F words. that don't impress 'em much. but coarse language and a craftily conjured demure biting of the tongue, now that gets the gora attention.
(Abb Tera kya Hogga Kayani, Wazibul Qadri yaa oomar bhar ki Ghulami)“Ultimately outcome we hope to achieve in the east is a reduction of insurgent networks to the point where Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) can handle them, reducing them in 2012, if necessary going after them in 2013,” Allen said.“I won’t go into specifics of operations but as we consolidate our holdings in the south and as population centers there in Helmand River valley and in (Kandahar,) we will conduct substantial operations in the east idea being to expand security zone around Kabul. In particular we are going to pay lot of attention to south of Kabul, Wardak, Logar, Ghazni, Zabul.Because in the end if you have a population in the south that feels secure and it’s secured by ANSF, and you have a population in east and around centre of gravity of Kabul, and those two are connected by a road so you have freedom of movement, you have a pretty good outcome
