[DAWN] PAKISTAN holds a unique position in the world with its long tradition of disregarding logic and reason in the conduct of its foreign policy. If any other country is acting similarly it deserves a medal for keeping its distinction secret.
For many days, the people of this country have been trying to figure out as to what extent their government has committed itself to jumping into the Saudi-Yemeni conflict. A heated debate is going on in the media and at various public forums on the pros and cons of contributing Pak troops to the multinational force the Saudis have created for their defence, although little information is available about the threat faced by them.
The government does not seem interested in dispelling public anxiety about the fallout of its joining the conflict in the Arabian peninsula.
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I question the opening sentence. IMO the U.S. is currently becoming a strong contender for the position.
[DAWN] THE March 23 celebrations included the usual exhortations that Pakistain is an ideological state. Ideologies represent unique sets of guiding ideas adopted by countries for the main life domains: economic, political and cultural. Countries progress only by adopting effective ideologies. All countries follow some ideology. So, presenting Pakistain as an ideological state is redundant. The issue is whether it follows an effective and distinct ideology.
Most countries consider economics and politics as public domains, where states intervene extensively through secular policies based on democracy and capitalism. They consider culture as a private domain where citizens follow personal traditions with states intervening when traditions break laws. Those fussing about ideology today are mainly the few countries that buck the silent consensus on democracy-cum-capitalism, eg, North Korea, Cuba and Iran. Their politics and economics are guided by different ideologies. Even culture is considered public domain there. Such countries are generally doing poorly culturally, economically and politically.
Pakistain's case is unique. It is perhaps the only ideology-obsessed country yet to even define its ideology clearly let alone implement it. Ideologies include four levels. Values prescribing ideal behaviour represent their foundations. State structures built on these foundations represent the second level. Economic structures prescribe how resources are controlled. Political structures prescribe how state power is exercised.
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[AnNahar] Pakistain faces an unenviable dilemma -- whether to join a Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... -led coalition fighting Shiite Houthis in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... or stay out and risk angering its old ally which provides it with huge financial support.
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By Ron Prosor, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
[NYTimes]
Both NY Times staff and readers are no doubt patting themselves on the back for being so generous and open minded by providing that horrid man's representative editorial space in the newspaper of record. Equally no doubt the only one of them who actually read the thing is the copy editor who made sure there were no typos or egregious grammatical errors.
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OTOH LUCIANNE > WHAT SHOULD ISRAEL DO NOW THAT [all] ITS NEIGHBORS ARE COLLAPSING!?
YEAH, D *** NG IT!
I know - lets ask the Bammer + DemoLeft + OWG Marxists-Globalists.
* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > IRAN BASIJ CHIEF THREATENS ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA.
* IIRC TOPIX > [Reason Magazine] AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY PUTTING US IN MORE DANGER.
And just because the OWG Globies haven't answered the question as to how much is Sole Superpower, future-Co-Superpower-among-Many Amerika supposed t unilaterally give up or fall back around the World has absolutely nothing to do wid anything.
ONCE AGAIN, 'TIS A SIMPLE QUESTION BUT A BIGGIE.
Have I said "BIGGIE"???
* DEFENCE.P/FORUMS > IRAN CLAIMS ISRAELI FIGHTER JETS SUPPORTED SAUDI AIRSTRIKES IN YEMEN.
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Every blind pig or squirrel (or the NYTs) occasionally finds an ear of corn or acorn. Watching the UN make sausage is like watching some kind of farcical play with deadly serious consequences. Isn't it time to consider pulling our money out of this corrupt organization--they would fold tomorrow and the ONE would not have any jumping off job after POTUS.
[YNETNEWS] Op-ed: While the US president and his administration have failed in predicting, understanding and handling every single event in the Middle East, most of their criticism is still directed at the State of Israel led by Netanyahu.
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"George Orwell’s motto for Oceania in the book "1984," under US President Barack Obama "friends are enemies, denial is wisdom, capitulation is victory."
To win a war you don't need to kill every soldier on the other side. What you need to do is destroy the other army as an organized force. You destroy the ability of the officers to command and the morale of the men. You destroy their perception of the worth of their side and of their own self-worth.
All wars are culture wars. To win you must destroy the values of the other side. (That is one reason why we're losing to Islam no matter how many times we beat them on the battlefield.) You must destroy their sense of purpose and the values instilled in them to break them as an organization.
That is what the left has been doing to us.
This culture war we're in is slow and subtle. It's not always as loud and as obvious as the counterculture was. The purpose of the counterculture was to shatter the dominant culture. Once that was done, the culture could be slowly cannibalized at will until the counterculture became the culture. And then it was no longer about freedom or free anything, those were the disruptive tools used to drive youth recruitment with a facade of anarchy, and it became about conformity and control. This culture of conformity and control is still being sold as 'rebellious' when it's just the establishment.
...The most important thing to understand about this phase of the culture war is that the left's goal is to break you as an individual, to take away your values and to replace them with their own. If it cannot do these things, it will try to destroy you and even use you as a cautionary tale to warn others.
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But full of hope. Cling to your families and organizations, cling to your guns and your bibles, don't surrender to the culture of destruction.
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Typical headline:
SANTA FE – A self-described court jester who threw a banana peel and hit comedian Dave Chappelle onstage Monday night insists he’s not a racist and that Chappelle should be able to take a joke.
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Then it was same sex marriages. Now it is forcing you to actively participate in same sex marriages even if you have deeply held religious beliefs against it.
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Greenfield nails it. The left assiduously tries to replace values that have taken eons to develop; values that work to advance civilization. What do they want to replace them with? Nothing of value. Bupkus. What are their tools? Misinformation, propaganda, lies, character assassination, political correctness. Harry Reid, when asked why he lied about Romney said "We won." These people should not be anywhere near the seats of power--they are just friggin evil.
The left is a virus. It has no foundation of values. It is based on shifting sands. It feeds off the established culture. When the culture is dead they have nothing to replace the host with. Without our values and culture, we become a bunch of disparate tribes like the Mideast where stoning women, head-lopping enemies, or burning enemies alive is de rigueur. Or we might become a bland, politically-correct organization of apparatchiks and commissars ruled by corruption, payback to enemies, reward to friends, a shut down of debate of ideas or free speech, no religion, no freedom of association, no Constitutional, no individual rights--a corrupticrocacy or idiocracy--whichever best suits description. No thanks.
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The Marxist don't teach history, just fantasy, and make damn sure no one is aware of real history. Then they wonder why all their plans and programs fall so short if not out right fail.
Massachusetts founded by religious 'dissenters'
Pennsylvania founded by religious 'dissenters'
Maryland founded by religious 'dissenters'
Rhode Island founded by religious 'dissenters' of the religious 'dissenters'
I'm guessing the Left is looking to relearn the lessons of the 30 Years War. The lessons the Founders took to heart when they enshrined the Religious protection clause of the First Amendment.
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Procopiusék. The founding fatheers had in mlind different shades of Christianism so they thought in basiccallay benevolent religions separated by relatively minor details (for an outsider) but not ion the goals. Had they been confronted to the Aztec religion or to Islam like the Spanards had been First Amendment would be very different.
The recent bashing of Gov. Pence and Indiana by the left is telling. Their total contempt for 'flyover' and anything remotely conservative is palpable. Walmart's message to the Gov. of Arkansas was also quire revealing. As is so often said here, 'follow the money.'
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I'm bloody well sick of the kakpack crowd. It's all you get on the tube these days. Not even "Wheel of Fortune" is safe. None of my business what goes on with these people, I just wish they'd just keep it to themselves.
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"It has no foundation of values." Erm, no. Even animals and plants have values, goals their organism pursues until it's no longer possible. The Left's goals are absolute power, as in:
always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.
Leftists fantasize they will be wearing the boots.
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[DAWN] THE March 23 celebrations included the usual exhortations that Pakistain is an ideological state. Ideologies represent unique sets of guiding ideas adopted by countries for the main life domains: economic, political and cultural. Countries progress only by adopting effective ideologies. All countries follow some ideology. So, presenting Pakistain as an ideological state is redundant. The issue is whether it follows an effective and distinct ideology.
[YNETNEWS] Op-ed: While the US president and his administration have failed in predicting, understanding and handling every single event in the Middle East, most of their criticism is still directed at the State of Israel led by Netanyahu.
