We posted once on the ongoing wars across the planet, and pledged to continue it with all our goodwill. But due to the tight schedule of our Managing Director, and tighter schedule of your’s truly, it was a one timer.
Not any more. Here we dig it up from the premature grave, and present you a details of the war news across…umm…everywhere. Continue reading
Furthermore, Obama following McChrystal’s “COIN” strategy but trying to do a “lite” approach with a timeline is probably not going to succeed. COIN involves building a nation, and it takes a whole freakin lot of money and time, so a timetable will leave it without enough time.
As Thomas Friedman points out, nation-building in Afghanistan probably won’t work well, even among the best efforts, and it would have been better all along to go with an “anti-terrorists” strategy there, not an “anti-terrorism” strategy.
This Thanksgiving, we give thanks to those serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and abroad, and to our veterans.
Let us honor the fallen in Iraq:
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* 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. Continue reading
OBAMA-MAO-OBAMA all week long!
* Everyone remember Muammar Gaddafi? The cartoon who went on to record the longest and most depressingly boring speech in the United Nations general assembly a couple of months back? Also the “chief” of Libya, that man is…this time on a record to depress beauties across Italy…He got a chance to spend a night with lots of babes and he spoiled all by reading Koran! The man’s hilarious…
Gaddafi’s night in with ‘500 attractive girls’ – and the Koran
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Sometime old people are known for their wisdom. But mostly they are known for their capacity to bore people with genuine gold-standard cliched and old news analysis.
Such is the case of former French investigative magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere, (don’t ask me to repeat the name again) a man undoubtedly of immense intellect, but terribly grumpy and headmaster type.
He presently is busy blasting Pakistan, an “ally” (hahaha, what a joke!) in the war on terror. Continue reading
We are getting complains that we are neglecting the Wars that are going on around…as they’ve been waged since the birth of humanity–and are a part of our life anyway–we are mostly focussing on good looking women in our blog.
Not true at all.
We are very much in touch with reality, and we keep a constant notice of the happenings in several war fronts. But the thing is, regular updates of same bomb blasts, photos of ripped limbs and low morale of troops all around, can be a little boring (or depressing), even for ardent students of foreign relations. So what we thought of doing, is we will do a regular weekly story every Monday, thereby spoiling the start of your week with grim and not so serious news across our peaceful planet.
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Obama should realize that, with Mehsud dead, this is the best time to deal the deadly final blow to the depleted Taliban.
The “War on Terror,” if we can still call it a war, drags on to its ninth year, with the most recent development being the killing of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud by an unmanned U.S. Drone attack. The holy war of “sacrifice, martyrdom, and pride”, waged by the mostly, militia type “non-state” factors against the mighty war-machines of United States, NATO, or the Israeli army also saw the evolution of post-modern wars, which is more of a war of attrition and endurance, than of brute force. Now, we should keep in mind, that, in these kinds of wars, the chance of an overwhelmingly decisive victory is small and tricky. Because if these so called non-state factors, can even create a perception of victory, the kind Hezbollah did in the 2006 Israel war, which for all practical purposes they do by simply enduring the assault, it plays on the psyche of the people, which in turn, opens up lock gates for new recruitment, for the “divinely victorious” force.
Now coming to the main theater of this drama, the question that was unanswered for all these years is where did the Taliban vanish after their caves were smoked out, their communication and military destroyed and their cities liberated? The answer almost came as a shock to the people of the world, early this year, when Pakistan plunged into a civil war with the Taliban, after an initial unsuccessful policy of appeasement.
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Here’s some funny news. Our new American president is a man with a huge ego evidently, which is probably at a peak after the historic health care bill passed the house…(now people, just to get things clear, recently the word “historically” is being used and often interchangeably with something good…ironically while forgetting that history brought us Stalin, Hitler and Carter…)
The promised Afghan Surge, which was a cause of a debate and accompanying headache for “That Chosen One”, was being put off and delayed for ages. ‘Cause President Obama, was in a terrible, terrible moral dilemma faced typically by Democrat presidents, who wants to keep their champions of peace image alive (which they can attain with just the order of some fish tacos).
We’ve seen these before. Carter, Clinton, both “hoped” to “change” to an “ethical” foreign policy. Only later faced a cold cruel reality, Carter in Iran embassy siege, Clinton in Kosovo.
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The gunman who opened fire at Fort Hood, killing 12 and injuring 31, is just the latest example of Jihad in America that Americans are all too quick to ignore.
The gunman was Muslim, and he did shout “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire, but ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz just “wish[es] his name was Smith.”
But his name isn’t Smith, and that’s the problem. His name was Malik Nadal Hasan, and it’s not the first example of violence fueled by a certain religion. (Just read the Baghdad Daily for more examples.)
The fact is that radical Islamic terrorism is a big threat, and for the US to continue denying it, as if no violence has ever been carried out because of some interpretations of the Muslim religion, is a deadly problem.
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