September 14th 2008 04:43
America has already lost the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. You didn't really know there was one in Pakistan did you?
Well, it's begun already. Pilotless aircraft are bombing outposts in the mountains. Because the bombers are pilotless they have no idea who they are taking out. It's making the Pakistanis very angry indeed. They're claiming there has been no declaration of war against them.
America is bombing because they were taken for a ride by Musharaf who accepted hundreds of millions of US dollars to rid the border country of terrorists. Problem was that Musharaf was co-operating with the terrorists for he was frightened he would be assassinated by them if he conducted successful operations.
The Americans chose to believe him because they imagined that if they paid him enough he would have to respect them. They didn't understand that for subversives the opposite is true.
And Afghanistan? Well the US have forgotten the guerilla war that was conducted against them in Vietnam. There is nothing to win in Afghanistan. If you imagine there is, please detail it. You might say hearts and minds and the goodwill of the people, but it is very difficult to get those when you are carelessly killing their relatives.
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Palin is a ruthless and magnetic personality. She's also an attractive wildlife gourmet. Hunters have an extraordinary sense of power when pulling down on a large animal. Once this power is tasted it becomes a hypnotic force in the hunter's life (that is if you enjoy blowing the heart and lungs out of an animal with a .308 magnum) It has an incredible ability to focus the motivation of the hunter in all fields of life. A hunter lusting for a kill is close to the obsessive state of a psychopath.
Sarah Palin has the equipment and the boundary extending emotional intelligence to deliver her prejudices in an appealing way.
So why won't she talk to the press, or at least schedule a press conference? Where has she been successfully hunting in her personal life that has produced results that won't stand up to scrutiny?
It may be the sacking of the individual who refused to sack her former brother-in-law after her sister was divorced. Or it may be that she's manipulating her family, and their friends, in a way that that wouldn't be acceptable to most thinking women?
Her young daughter and her friend have announced their marriage but not their engagement. Five months pregnant and her daughter and her friend hadn't decided on marriage until Sarah was a McCain running mate. It would have seemed they had placed the marriage in delay mode, OR Bristol's mother had placed it there until it became apparent it wasn't the way to attract RepublIcan votes.
Most conservative parents would be delighted to still have the power to manipulate their children's responses. However did Sarah do a switcheroo on how her daughter and the friend would behave once she became a running mate? These things will eventually come under scrutiny unless the media has lost its tabloid instinct.
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East Timor observers must follow the money to discover who's behind the attempt to kill East Timor's president, Jose Ramos Horta. That is always the first move by investigative reporters beginning an investigation.
Horta has testified that it was not Reinaldo or any of his men who shot him. But if the President had died, rather than Alfredo Reinaldo, Alfredo would have been prosecuted for the murder - he had mistakenly believed he had been summoned to the President's residence at the time of the shooting.
Reinaldo and several of his men were shot dead at close range inside the president's house compound. This led to an educated guess that they were executed by others.
The head of the Social Democrat Party said, "We can't put aside the possibility that Alfredo was set up."
Timorese were led to believe that a follower of Reinaldo was the man who shot Horta. The president realised it was not Marcelo Caetano, a Reinaldo follower at Horta's house, when he met him in Dili months after the attack. Marcelo would have made a great scapegoat.
Who would have benefited from the President's death? Would it be those who have historically attempted to deprive East Timor of its vast oil stocks (there is a temporary deal in place but deals can always be renegotiated, especially if the chief financial strategist is dead)? So, who wanted the oil? Who went along with the invasion of East Timor, over the oil? Who allowed the Indonesians to get away with over 200,000 murders in East Timor? Who kept silent about the murders for over twenty years? Who signed oil deals prematurely? It was Indonesia, Australia and America.
Remember it was Australia (Downer) who delayed the UN backed saving of East Timor by Australian troops, and in that short time hundreds of dissidents were murdered and all the infrastructure destroyed. That was a move that was essential, we thought, to have East Timor to quickly sign an oil deal.
Why do we have silence from prime minister, Xanana Gusmao? Well, he's taking time off to bask in his hero status. Hubris has descended on him? Afterall he was a true hero.
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The Olympic athletes should have the power, not the talentless members of the IOC. The IOC spokesperson went with the Chinese media censorship on the journalists being arrested. Who the hell do the IOC think they are? They totally screwed up on giving China the Games, screwed up on letting them getting away with profound censorship, and continue screwing up with every word they utter in favor of murderous China.
The athletes are the marvelous ones, the super stars, and they let themselves be ruled by a bunch of incompetent power freaks. Even super models have taken power from the designer power freaks who give them work.
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