Posted by fayeroe on February 25, 2009, at 15:36:52
In reply to Re: The Swat Valley, posted by Sigismund on February 25, 2009, at 15:16:47
> I imagine that it is way beyond the army's control?
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> The political strategy should be to minimise long term sense of threat to people of the Islamic faith. No more invasions of Islamic peoples for starters. At the time in the US there seemed to be this feeling (could be projection) that Afghanistan was not enough butt to kick. This is taking foreign policy down to the level of the schoolyard, which is perhaps where it mostly always is.On a idiotic level starting with my family...my brother thinks that President Obama is "muslim" and therefore must be associated with "those muslims" that "bombed" NYC.
Of course, at the time, it looked more "warlike" to pursue Saddam Hussein because he had been placed on our minds (MSM) and he was "scary" looking. "He looks evil." A state department official added that gem to the war talk.
Launching a full out war on Afghanistan would not be the "flowers will greet us" event that going to Iraq would be. I'll never, ever forget Cheney saying "we'll greeted with flowers, we are liberating these people"....something like that. I'm sure I mangled it. By saying that he brought an image to the American pie like the corsage on homecoming night, the flowers for mom, etc. etc. Karl Rove knew how to spin things for the "good ole boys" that make up America.....
Get me started!!!
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> All these kids who volunteer have a pan-Islamic identity, and are responding to the threat they see to their brothers and sisters from Gaza to Kabul.
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> It would be nice if western foreign policy did not have to live with a wreckage from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Seas on its conscience.Well, we do live it. It makes me sick.
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> President Obama's comment that Iran had a complex history was very encouraging.
> [Being on the receiving end of poison gas from Saddam, supplied (one feels obliged to ask) by whom? Maybe he made it himself?
> The stuff used in Halabja wasn't though. That was made in (wait for it) Germany.]Look up what Ross Perot said about us interfering in the Middle East.
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