Bombs and Dollars – American Foreign Policy Blog – China, Afghanistan, Pakistan

* Trust the various human rights groups and intellectuals to support criminals all over. For eons, they have been supporting the causes of criminals who were convicted for death sentence. (I remember a protest march outside my house, for support of a man, who got death sentence for murdering a 14-year-old girl and then raping the corpse). They were against the war against Taliban in Afghanistan and LTTE in Sri Lanka.

Ironically, one might wonder, why human rights never support the victims of terrorism across the world. Not a single candle light march for the victims of the Maoists, and not a single film personality coming out as they normally do, in the case of Roman Polanski. Are they by nature corrupt and tilted? Guess some questions are not to be asked…
India’s attack on Maoists troubles European aid body
(No, not the Maoists who murder and imprison political dissidents after stealing their earnings and forcing them into labor.)

And it’s the human rights groups that always stand up for the terrorists in Palestine launching rockets at Israeli civilians. Human Rights Watch got so bad with their support of Hezbollah and Hamas, that former HRW chairman Robert L. Bernstein wrote an op-ed in the New York Times decrying its reports as anti-Israel.

* The mighty European Union’s anti piracy task force, is no match to the skinny, smelly, attention-seeking Somali pirates. This is a bloody irritating thing that’s going on for quite sometime now. The country Somalia (which doesn’t have a government from probably the Jurassic period, and where the majority of the people are living under the tyranny of a Talibanistic Islamist group, which only a few days back ordered the stoning to death of a pregnant woman) is the modern Tortuga and the breeding ground of pirates.

Now these pirates get decent support, money, shelter and weapons from the Islamist groups, who take huge amount of money from the pirates in exchange, as they control the oldest and most important trade route to Asia. The money, is not hard to guess…is the extortion and ransom money, which results in loss of a huge amount of money for practically every country having trade routes and passing through there.

Now there is one simple and definite solution to these kind of problem. Old school, nineteenth century use of brute force. During the nineteenth century, the whole gulf of Aden and Arabia, was infested with pirates, which hampered the passage of merchant vessels of the erstwhile European colonial powers. European navies “cleansed” the area…and the modern route was established. I don’t guess any other options frankly this time also. But the World order has changed now…and about time someone take the leadership, and responsibility. But who?
Still a dark continent…not literally though