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Awe, golly gee.... will it be more *SHOCK-ING*
& *AWE-ING* than the last fiZZer? :hide:
The Middle East and Western Asia: Bit of a hot spot?
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Awe, golly gee.... will it be more *SHOCK-ING*
& *AWE-ING* than the last fiZZer? :hide:
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Cripes, the US is bombing and raiding inside Pakistan. How long will they put up with that I wonder?
And, I wonder what the Russians and Chinese are thinking about this?
Could get out of hand....
And, I wonder what the Russians and Chinese are thinking about this?
Could get out of hand....
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And while the paper tiger UN SC has it's hands tied.
A big front is opening up here from Israel/Palestine to Pakistan, and up to Georgia.
Hard to see this finishing anytime in the next 50 years or so. Hopefully it's contained to that region.
Solutions?
US and it's industries pullback to home base? Impossible.
As long as the politicians can be corrupted, they can use -- or abuse-- Pakistan as they like. I think a revolution like Iranian revolution is on the cards in Pakistan.
I am working on a formula which will hopefully win me a nobel peace prize
. My aim is to equate the importance of a western life to that of a third world nation. So far it is only a factor of 100. 1 Western life = 100 third world life.
People are not learning their lessons. They ruined Afghanistan. Their whole generation X and Y has been fighting and ignorant because of super power's play. Now they want to do that in Pakistan, which thanks to its corrupt politicians, is already on a fast track to disaster.
It is important for the US to have many flash points ready, in case some disaster (financial or otherwise) strike them. Make an easy case of a war.
See "Wag the Dog" movie, a great master peace, showing how effect media propaganda is.
I bet most of you will not even remember the time line of attack on Afghanistan or Iraq. No one even mentions the fact that Taliban offered to prosecute Osama, if US can provide the evidence. Now here is a thought.
I know emotions must be running high after 9/11. Most countries would have done the same. But a proper accounting, fact-checking and analysis after the war was never carried out.
From the point of view of running a strategy -- irrespective of its morality -- neo-con have done a phenomenal job. I give devil the credit where it is due. They realized that world was fast changing, and with the advancements in internet, the window of opportunity was diminishing. They successfully created an invisible -- non winnable -- enemy, by the name of Terror, now infamously embedded in the slogan "War on Terror".
The biggest win for the neo-con apart from creating a ghost enemy is the control of justice system. The Patriotic act rushed to law shifted the paradigm of "innocent until proven guilty". I think it is a work of genius.
Sorry for getting on different tangents. /end rant
Ironically here is what they are thinking. Sell them weapons...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24542708-2703,00.html
Here is another interesting take on military operations.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1852345,00.html
