[Iran Press TV] Last week President B.O. admitted that his administration has not worked out a strategy on how to deal with the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a dominant force in the Middle East. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... as ISIS continues its march through Syria and Iraq, many in the US administration believe it is, in the words of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a threat "beyond anything we have ever seen."
Predictably, the neocons attacked the president's speech. They believe the solution to any problem is more bombs and troops on the ground, so they cannot understand the president's hesitation.
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For someone who is looking for an appointment of UN sec General Obama is trying to ruin his next affirmative action job interview. Would any country vote for him?
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I've just been thinkin'....wasn't Joe Biden put on the ticket to give Obama needed foreign policy credibility? Wasn't plugs touted as an "FP" expert?
Damn, there are a lot of reallllllly stupid people in this country.
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Who is the dim light bulb that wrote this mess?
Just come home???
Yeah, right, and in six months we'll have a city disappear.
Or on 9/11 we'll have some ghastly horrible terrorist attack that will spin our staggering economy into the ditch again.
Perhaps we should use the FDR approach, a good war ended the depression, maybe a good war can end the great recession.
Just don't outsource the jobs and don't buy any biofuel for the jets.
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C'mon, you guys. Would you really trust the Champ to prosecute a war? I wouldn't. I'm content to watch him take the heat. We were screwed when the guy got elected. A war would only make things worse. WWII might have fixed our economy, temporarily. But Vietnam combined with the Great Society damn near ruined us.
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This, here is the kind of thing that worries me. Instead of getting bogged down in another God forsaken Middle Eastern desert on behalf of the frickin' Soddies we should be securing America.
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Now when the 6,000 foreign students who came to the US and got their Visas to go to Horseshoeing College of Cosmetics and Flower Arranging and then vanished...plan and carry out an Attack on the USAirForce Academy and kill all the 2014 Graduating Class of Officer Zoomies...we can all ask ourselves who to thank. And we can all accept our part of the blame as a gap between the Rich and the Poor and why can't we just get along with our Moslem brothers.
Moslems are our friends, right? Got any Moslem neighbors? Nice people like that who just want to eat Apple pie and sell us some falafel and cous cous.
Why don' we all bend over and be friends? War? OF COURSE, the US won't start a war. All the US is good for is wanking and half measures and they couldn't really get into a war where all Americans are either wearing earrings or have dyed their hair purple. War? Don't ask Dwayne and Bruce they are having their nails done.
War, who would come? Anybody you know? Naw, bend over America and take it like a man. The Moslems HAVE your number.
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I think that we should let the arabs kill each other and focus most of our attention on Ukraine. Ukraine needs anti-tank weapons and probably soon anti-a/c stuff and if Putin isn't stopped at his southern edge he will next look north.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) President Javed Hashmi's startling claims of a scripted political crisis being engineered in Pakistain has led to widespread speculation among analysts that a version of the 'Bangladesh Model' may be in the works.
"Imran had told the PTI core committee it won't be called a martial law," Hashmi alleged at a presser, hinting at a covert form of takeover by the military establishment, using PTI Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... and Chief of the Pakistain Awami Tehrik Tahirul-Qadri as their instruments.
The 'Bangladesh Model', a soft coup, is based on the idea that the political system must be cleansed of corrupt elements for the welfare of the public, which perhaps has been left incapacitated to elect honest leaders.
The model works on the premise that the military and judiciary must intervene to help differentiate the 'right' from the 'wrong' before it is too late. The model stipulates that the democracy that follows such a 'cleansing' is therefore a truer form since the people have been rightly 'guided' and are now able to make informed decisions.
Technocrats, current and former officials aligned with the military and judiciary play a vital role in the implementation of the 'Bangladesh Model' of which the strings are pulled from the background and through an interim government that remains in power for a lengthy period as happened in Bangladesh in 2007.
"If Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... survives, for the rest of his term, he will be a ceremonial prime minister--the world will not take him seriously," said Ayesha Siddiqa, an Islamabad-based analyst told the Wall Street Journal on Saturday.
"A soft coup has already taken place. The question is whether it will harden."
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[DAWN] THE carefully constructed veneer of neutrality that the army leadership had constructed through much of the national political crisis instigated by Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... and Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... has been torn apart.
First, came the army's statement on Sunday, the third in a series of statements in recent days on the political crisis, which quite astonishingly elevated the legitimacy and credibility of the demands of Imran Khan, Tahirul Qadri and their violent protesters above that of the choices and actions of an elected government dealing with a political crisis. Consider the sequence of events so far. When the army first publicly waded into the political crisis, it counselled restraint on all sides -- as though it was the government that fundamentally still had some questions hanging over its legitimacy simply because Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri alleged so. Next, the army crept towards the Khan/Qadri camp by urging the government to facilitate negotiations -- as though it was the government that was being unreasonable, and not Mr Khan and Mr Qadri.
Now, staggeringly, the army has 'advised' the government not to use force against violent protesters and essentially told it to make whatever concessions necessary to placate Mr Khan and Mr Qadri. It is simply extraordinary that it is the PAT and PTI supporters who want to break into and occupy state buildings, but it is the government that has been rebuked. It's as if the army is unaware -- rather, unwilling -- to acknowledge the constitutional scheme of things: it is the government that is supposed to give orders to the army, not the other way around. The government has already issued its order: invoking Article 245. On Saturday, as violent thugs attacked parliament, it was surely the army's duty to repel them. But the soldiers stationed there did nothing and the army leadership the next day warned the government instead of the protesters -- which largely explains why the protesters were able to continue their pitched battles with the police and attacked the PTV headquarters yesterday.
If that were not enough, yesterday also brought another thunderbolt: this time from within the PTI with party president Javed Hashmi indicating that Mr Khan is essentially doing what he has been asked and encouraged to do by the army leadership. It took the ISPR a few hours to respond with the inevitable denial, but a mere denial is inadequate at this point. The functioning of the state stands paralysed because a few thousand protesters and their leaders have laid siege to state institutions. Where is the army condemnation of that? Would the army allow even a handful of peaceful protesters to gather outside GHQ for a few hours? The army is hardly being 'neutral'. It is making a choice. And, it is disappointing that choice is doing little to strengthen the constitutional, democratic and legitimate scheme of things.
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[Bangla Daily Star] IF proof were needed of the immense damage Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... has been causing to Pakistain's fragile democracy, one has only to observe the anguish with which his party colleague Javed Hashmi has noted the manner in which he let his followers loose on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's residence in Islamabad. Three people have died and hundreds have been injured as a result of Khan's brashness. Khan now charges Sharif with murder when the fact is that it was he who encouraged his followers to create terror on the streets.
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Unending agony, indeed. However, one might conclude the main problem with Pakistan is Pakistanis.
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