American liberals can't quite face the fact that if their man does win in November, and if he has meant a single serious word he's ever said, it means more war, and more bitter and protracted war at thatnot less.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And Obama seems to be the only candidate willing to face it: > http://www.slate.com/id/2200134/ > > "Few want to accept that the war is widening; that it now involves Pakistan, > a country with an unstable government and nuclear weapons." > > I wonder...where was US Intelligence when Pakistan was becoming a nuclear > power? We are being focused on Iran...and before that it was Iraq and a > hundred and one other things...but all the while Pakistan was becoming > nuclear. > How did that happen? > > "The truth is that the Taliban, and its al-Qaida guests, were originally > imposed on Afghanistan from without as a projection of Pakistani state > power. (Along with Pakistan, only Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates > ever recognized the Taliban as the legal government in Kabul.) " > > There is Saudi Arabia again, always in the news in connection with > Extremism. Yet they are one of the US' greatest allies. > > "We were all warned of this many years ago. When the Clinton administration > sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan in reprisal for the attacks on our > embassies in East Africa, the missiles missed Osama Bin Ladin but did, if > you remember, manage to kill two officers of the ISI. It wasn't asked loudly > enough: What were these men doing in an al-Qaida camp in the first place? In > those years, as in earlier ones, almost no tough questions were asked of > Pakistan. " > > Interesting. And then they become a nuclear power. > > "Recent accounts of murderous violence in the capital cities of two of our > allies, India and Afghanistan, make it appear overwhelmingly probable that > the bombs were not the work of local or homegrown "insurgents" but were > orchestrated by agents of the Pakistani ISI." > > Hmm...Interesting read. > > There's just too much going on in the world now. > Economy, Terrorism, US Elections and the worldwide effect on just about > everything else. > :-\ > > The world is a depressing place currently. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
