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Slightly Optimistic
|  08 Sep '10 18:17 : 0 recs
the end of western civilisation?
Much too pessimistic.
Although the WSJ reports today the disappointment at the latest US appeals to China. U.S., China Avoid Touchy Issues in Talks
And hopes had been so high. Larry Summers's tough words for China
The Chinese press commented today with an aggressive editorial: China needs powerful "carrier killer" |
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Hoog
| 08 Sep '10 17:13 : 0 recs
Hahahahahaha.
I am sitting in Scotland, wearing an orange beard, with my face painted blue!
Rocking gently in my armchair, I wear the satisfied expression of someone who yearns for the end of the Western civilisation.
Hahahahahaha.
I may be in the poor house, but at least I will have a lot of company!
Hahahahahaha.
Meanwhile, my bearded tyrant heroes go from strength to strength. You backed the wrong horses!
Hahahahahaha.
Rgds,
*Hoog*  |
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Goel
| 08 Sep '10 16:56 : 0 recs
Meanwhile, Western hegemony dribbles away:
The new line will run from Tehran to the town of Khosravi on the border with Iraq, around 360 miles as the crow flies, passing through Arak, Hamedan and Kermanshah.
Eventually, the Iranian government said, the route could link Iran with Iraq and even Syria as part of a Middle-Eastern corridor. That could also benefit the 5,000 Iranians who make pilgrimages each day to the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq.
Nicklas Swanstrom, the executive director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said the contract to build the line was the first step for China to build an entire rail infrastructure for central Asia.
China to build $2bn railway for Iran
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Hoog
| 08 Sep '10 11:25 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 08 Sep '10 11:25
Sore Ass,
You don't like my posts? As requested, I give you Liberace:
"When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank."
Rgds,
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prudence
| 08 Sep '10 10:51 : 0 recs
Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop slandering the Jews, according to an article published on the U.S. website The Atlantic on Tuesday.
The ageing revolutionary devoted much of a five-hour conversation to the issue of anti-Semitism, wrote Jeffrey Goldberg, who interviewed Castro in the Cuban capital Havana.
Castro told The Atlantic that the Iranian government should understand the consequences anti-Semitism.
"This went on for maybe two thousand years," he said. "I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything."
He added: "The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."
Asked by Goldberg if he would repeat his comments to Ahmadinejad, Castro said. "I am saying this so you can communicate it."
Following the interview, Goldberg spoke with Haaretz about his impression of the thinking behind Castro's comments.
"I think he [Castro] realizes he's gone too far in certain criticisms of Israel," Goldberg said.
"I think he wants to be a player in this issue; and I think he's genuinely offended by Holocaust denial."
Ahmadinejad has publicy called the Holocaust "a myth", claiming Jews exaggerated the Nazi genocide to win sympathy from European governemnts. |
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George Sore Ass
| 08 Sep '10 10:24 : 0 recs
Hoog
No quote from Liberace or Hinge and Bracket?
What the hell is wrong with you these days?
George |
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Hoog
| 07 Sep '10 22:00 : 0 recs
Mupps,
It is always much appreciated to read the views of the most committed and hardcore Saddamite on these forums. Unfortunately, your dream that Saddam & sons should rule Iraq forever is no longer possible - they are all dead! Never mind. You can always choose a new tyrant to support - perhaps get a list of the Great Gonzo Goel heroes, and choose a few tinpot dictators that you can cheer lead in future. I am sure "Sore Ass" would like you dancing with poms poms.
I suppose people are asking you to move your kebab van all the time, so you don't have much sympathy for Israel. However, the situation is quite different for Israel, than it is for you and your kebab van. You are simply a pesky squatter selling tasty kebabs. It is unlikely many of your customers want to hurl you into the sea - because then they wouldn't get any tasty kebabs from you! Alas, many of Israels neighbours are people dedicated to the destruction of the Israeli State, which is less than 10 miles wide in places.
Security must be ensured.
Enuff!
*Hoog* |
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Goel
| 07 Sep '10 16:32 : 0 recs
Check it out: the great retreat continues - now with new, added *think-tank cover*:
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the west's counter-insurgency strategy has "ballooned" out of proportion to the original aim of preventing al-Qaida from mounting terrorist attacks there, and must be replaced by a less ambitious but more sensible policy of "containment and deterrence".
The critique of the US- and British-backed military policy is contained in the latest strategic survey from the IISS, a respected but usually uncontroversial body. IISS officers made clear today they have departed from their normal practice because of the serious threat to the west's security interests in pursuing the current Afghan strategy.
Al-Qaida and Taliban threat is exaggerated, says security thinktank
G. |
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3dc
| 07 Sep '10 14:31 : 0 recs
Israeli Army Video Shows Hizbullah Allegedly Removing Arms from Shehabiyeh Blast Site |
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Warren BuffetCar
| 07 Sep '10 11:13 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 07 Sep '10 11:14
Hoog,
Israeli security. After frequent attacks on Israel, the Palestinians have effectively forfeited any claim they may have had on some of this land.
Hicks from the colonial backwaters of the empire tend to have such views of course, not least because they grew up on land that was taken in that way. So its unsurprising Hoog would hold such beliefs.
Here in the modern world, that isn't the predominant view, and considered rather old fashioned and colonial (along with pig-fvcking and sleeping with one's sister).
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Merlin
| 07 Sep '10 11:11 : 0 recs
3DC
Forgive me for asking awkward questions but if the US forces are being so succesful why are we not winning ?
Its hardly winning when your chaps cannot go down the street for coffeee. |
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George Sore Ass
| 07 Sep '10 10:59 : 0 recs
Prudence,
Of course the Nazis should have dropped white phosphorus from the air like Israel does, but these were different times.
George |
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3dc
| 07 Sep '10 05:42 : 0 recs
Between April and July of this year, U.S. and allied (including Afghan) special operations forces killed nearly 400 Taliban leaders, and arrested another 1,400 Taliban.
All this was mostly done via night operations by commandos (mainly U.S. Special Forces and SEALs) and missile attacks by American UAVs. This is part of a trend.
In the past two years, SOCOM has been shifting forces from Iraq (where it had 5,500 personnel two years ago) to Afghanistan (where it had 3,000 troops two years ago). The ratio is now largely reversed. Most American allies have moved all their commando forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, where they not only do what they were trained for, but also train Afghans for special operations tasks. This has already been done in Iraq, where it worked quite well. As a result, there are now nearly 10,000 special operations troops in Afghanistan. The SOCOM troops in Iraq and Afghanistan account for about 80 percent of American special operations forces overseas. The rest are in places like Colombia, the Philippines and Djibouti (adjacent to Somalia).
Special operations troops not only participate in most of the attacks on the Taliban leadership (and key technical people building and placing roadside bombs), but also conduct a lot of the surveillance missions that locate safe houses where Taliban leaders operate from, as well as those used for bomb making workshops. Many Special Forces troops speak the local languages, and can negotiate with village and tribal leaders for information and assistance.
This “decapitation” campaign was successful in Iraq, and earlier, in Israel (where it was developed to deal with the Palestinian terror campaign that began in 2000.) Actually, the Americans have used siimilar tactics many times in the past (in World War II, 1960s Vietnam, the Philippines over a century ago and in 18th century colonial America.) But the Israelis developed decapitation tactics customized for use against Islamic terrorists.
In some cases, the Special Forces efforts have been so successful that the Taliban has been unable to get anyone to take the place of dead leaders. In some cases, the Taliban have called on friend and kin in the Afghan government, to try and get the Americans to stop. This puts these Afghan officials in a tight spot. While they are officially on board with this campaign against the Taliban, they also have members of their tribe, or even close relatives, who are in the Taliban. That’s not unusual in Afghanistan, where even the most pro-Taliban tribes have members who are not only pro-government, but actually work (most of the time) for the government. That’s how politics works in Afghanistan. |
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prudence
| 06 Sep '10 13:08 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 06 Sep '10 13:09
14-year-old girl to her mother: "Will it hurt when they kill us?"
"No darling, it will be over very quickly"
And then - she was "knocked off"!............. |
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prudence
| 06 Sep '10 13:04 : 0 recs
<<Just imagine how much land the jews would want if Hitler hadn't have knocked off 6 million of them?>>
They would have left their homes and businesses?!............. |
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Goel
| 06 Sep '10 12:19 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 06 Sep '10 12:20
And as America's war in Iraq simply continues, some facts that you may not have been aware of - or forgotten:
...America's position in the Middle East has been visibly eroded.
Some of the things done by the American authorities in Iraq, based in the Green Zone in Baghdad, were sober, positive and practical.
Some have become a burden, for instance the constitution the Americans wished on Iraq, which makes it fiendishly hard to create a decent effective government.
Grotesque mismanagement
And because the Green Zone administration was thrown together in a huge hurry back in 2002-03, overseen by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - a man with no interest in nation-building - some of what was done involved grotesque levels of corruption and mismanagement.
Mr Rumsfeld was sent a careful, conscientious 900-page report by the state department containing detailed plans for the post-invasion period. He reportedly dumped it, unopened, straight into his waste-paper basket.
Iraqis, and some Americans, pile a good deal of the blame for what happened during this period on to Mr Rumsfeld's ally Paul Bremer, the temperamental pro-consul who often seemed unaware of what was going on right under his nose.
Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, when asked by the Saudi foreign minister why the US insisted on going ahead with the invasion, answered: "Because it's do-able."
Assessing America's imperial adventure in Iraq
PUT THE BAST*ARDS IN THE DOCK
G. |
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Goel
| 06 Sep '10 12:11 : 0 recs
LOL - check it out:
US troops have been called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents who attacked an army base in Baghdad, killing 12 people, officials say.
It marks the first such use of US troops since the end of US combat operations five days ago.
US troops called in as Iraqi army base attacked
Five days - what a joke.
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Goel
| 06 Sep '10 12:05 : 0 recs
Hoog:
Fu*ck Israeli security.
If these bast*ards think they're going to dictate terms, then I guess the resistance - and the boycotts, and the academic and cultural isolation, and the harassment - will continue.
Rgds,
G. |
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George Sore Ass
| 06 Sep '10 10:55 : 0 recs
Just imagine how much land the jews would want if Hitler hadn't have knocked off 6 million of them?
They'd probably be occupying Britain by now. |
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George Sore Ass
| 06 Sep '10 10:54 : 0 recs
One cannot attack an occupier without forfeiting the right to the occupied land?
Those French Resistance b'stards eh? |
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