Dear, dear Dr. Jose, I love you, man, but it's against the Geneva Convention on internet debate to declare a unilateral ceasefire right after firing a barrage of verbal missiles, even before they have landed on their target. (That was a joke.) We should agree to disagree, not fire missiles and than declare a unilateral cease fire. I am disappointed in how you find ideas in my carefully crafted communications that do not exist. For example, I never said "it was all about oil". The point is that the US guarantees the free flow of oil, which we all depend on, especially Europe and Japan, though oil may not mean much to you bicycle- riding, wind-surfing, cricket-playing Bahamians and your non-industrial economy. You will be glad to hear that I am waiving my normal fee, because you are correct. You are not ready for a serious course in geopolitics. That requires a knowledge of UN resolutions and UN ultimatums and the how the US waits for the UN to exhaust its options before acting, which it did after 12 years in Iraq. You see the liberation of Muslims from a brutal Muslim dictator as a double standard. You want the US to intervene willy nilly wherever you choose, but not where you do not choose. You see the ending of colonialism in Goa as an "invasion" as if Goa were a sovereign country. I'm not surprised that you are dazed at how the world works from your idyllic vantage point, with no responsibility for others who are being oppressed either expected or provided. I am also disappointed, as I always am with you lefties, who are so selective in your choice of whose violence you choose to oppose. When Saddam was brutalizing his neighbors, his own people, and conducting a dictatorship as a minority by killing anyone who opposed him, you were silent. When the Taliban were brutalizing Afghanistan and whipping women in the street and preventing girls from an education, you were silent. It was none of your business. After all that was just Muslims brutalizing other Muslims. When the US then leads a coalition to stop the brutality, you are suddenly awakened from your xit-codi and home made miskut induced slumber and are outraged. They are making "poixe" you thunder illogically, catching the bull by the tail. How dare they liberate anyone and make "poixe", you ask? Apparently, poixe must only be made by accepting brutality and avoiding violence selectively. Why aren't you preaching your less violent methods to al Qaeda and Bin Laden, who declared war on America at the height of Bill Clinton's Dr. Jose Colaco- oriented foreign policy? Those less violent methods by the US throughout the 90s only served to embolden them leading directly to 9/11. You seem to be blissfully unaware that innocent people were dying before April 2003 in Iraq, the aim of the liberation was to stop the killing in Iraq and the potential killing elsewhere, albeit at the cost of some lives in the process. The most violent conflict in modern history, WW-II, was violence being confronted by violence, and was followed by decades of peace, with former enemies now friends and allies.
Enjoy the sun, sand and cricket. Let's agree to disagree and hopefully we can share some xit-codi and home made miskut some day with some fine caju fenny as well.
