Comments on: Politics Is Politics

By: PharmingForDissidence

PharmingForDissidence — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:53:56 +0000

lets not forget the opium trade and its impact on decisions….

By: zackmitchell

zackmitchell — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:32:49 +0000

The Saudis are the Kings of the oil, they’re never gonna be touched.

By: P. Martini

P. Martini — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:12:40 +0000

And another thing: could someone please explain cogently how it is even possible that being a Bible-beating Jesus freak and a mongerer of unnecessary war somehow have been parts of a consistent (and very successful) political platform for 8 years?

P. Martini

By: Danny G

Danny G — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:49:53 +0000

Politics suck. I wouldn’t even know how to describe my political beliefs or affiliations. I couldn’t even stomach voting because I see no hope in it.

Whatever happens in Pakistan, I know one thing; it’s just going to get worse. Everything gets worse. Yeah, Pakistan has nuclear capabilities and we always have to be concerned about how the U.S. will react.

Everyone makes it so complicated, like there are actual peaceful solutions to the problems in this world so let’s have mind numbingly boring political conversations to figure out ways to bring peace in the middle east and fix the pot holes in Quebec. The way I see is there are super rich evil douche-bags that want to kill off at least 80% of us and have created a planet of confusion that will usher in a new kind of slavery. Nevermind, let’s talk about Pakistan.

By: uberadtx

uberadtx — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:34:28 +0000

Being a moderate with conservative tendancies, even I know that America doesn’t have the energy or resources to deal with Pakistan. While I enjoy the commentary, I have yet to read a solution here. It goes without saying that the Mayor of Karachi, Musharraf is out and he will be lucky to live a day after he is gone. The unfortunate reality of it is that the entire region is beyond politics. Its more like that annoying friend you’ve had forever that you can’t cut off. The friend that constantly grubs money from you and like an idiot you keep giving it to them despite the knowledge you will never see it again. You want to cut that friend off but they have some darn good redeeming qualities that you like. The devil in disguise. I am sure we will all agree that Pakistan and Afghanistan for that matter is beyond unification. Carter knew it way back when, this it not new. Its just new to the media that didn’t exist back then. No one has been able to tackle that region, most have been too cowardly. I don’t see a difference between then and now but I am willing to be enlightened. I am also willing to read some realistic solutions for the situation in front of us. It doesn’t matter what has brought this matter to this point, but what the next step truly is.

By: Yossarian

Yossarian — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:24:17 +0000

It’s a very tangled web that’s woven -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1266317,00.html

The chase:

The Pakistani ISI has a guy called Omar Sheikh wire Mohamed Atta (the lead 9/11 hijacker) $100,00 just before 9/11.

Omar Sheikh is later convicted of killing Daniel Pearl a WSJ journalist investigating links between Al Qaeda and Pakistan’s (ISI).

Omar Sheikh paid Atta on the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan’s ISI. Ahmed, the paymaster for the hijackers, was actually in Washington on 9/11, and had a series of pre-9/11 top-level meetings in the White House, the Pentagon, the national security council, and with George Tenet, then head of the CIA, and Marc Grossman, the under-secretary of state for political affairs. When Ahmed was exposed by the Wall Street Journal as having sent the money to the hijackers, he was forced to “retire” by President Pervez Musharraf.

Any questions?

By: D. Lilly

D. Lilly — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:21:37 +0000

I have told people I work with that I feel there are two countries who we (the U.S.) should be most concerned with. One is Saudi Arabia. The other is Pakistan. The Saudis funnel millions of dollars to militants. Pakistan serves as the way station for arms and militants into Afghanistan.

The cover of a recent Newsweek validated my argument and the article is one that I strongly suggest everyone read. Pakistan is currently dealing with the devil to try to keep the peace within it’s borders. I fear that the overall control of that situation is slipping through Musharraf’s hands and Pakistan will one day become uncontrollable by anybody the world would want in control.

That whole region is a tightrope. Winds are blowing strong from many directions and there is no net.

By: P. Martini

P. Martini — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:20:35 +0000

[quote comment="34060"]Matt,

Here are some shocking quotes from the article,
. . .

“Bombing Iran would be relatively easy.”

[/quote]

Easy? Relative to . . . Iraq? I mean look what a success that was! And Iran would be even easier! Happy Thanksgiving! It’s like going to Timmy’s; Wendy’s is right there. You just have to slide over a little bit. It’s just that simple! Seriously. It would have to be easy: it’s basically the same country! I mean, don’t even think of it like a country. Think of it like . . . more sand . . . like the beach. Yes, we should go to the beach, and we all know you never need a reason to go to the beach. You can just make one up. Like we did with Iraq.

In all seriousness, after the human rights disaster in Iraq, if the Bush administration can sell the American people on a similarly unjustified war (against a country which only replaces “q” with “n”, no less) by simply substituting the words “nuclear weapons” for “weapons of mass destruction” in its “blitzkrieg” media offensive against the America, I must say that I will be ashamed to be an American.

Humbly yours,
P. Martini

By: NathaN

NathaN — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:25:16 +0000

Blackbox, I stopped getting goosebumps when I realized all this talk about bombing Iran could really happen. I now read these kind of stories on the toilet to avoid the messy clean up and laundry.

By: Blackbox

Blackbox — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:17:52 +0000

Matt,

Please tell me that you saw the article in the Globe and Mail on the U.S. air invasion plan of Iran. It was bone chilling to read. I don’t have a link, but it is in today edition and it is called “A Plan to Attack Iran Swiftly and From Above.”

Here are some shocking quotes from the article,
“….Democrat Senator Hilliary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani, have said that Iran’s ruling mullahs can’t be allowed to go nuclear.”

“Bombing Iran would be relatively easy.”

“but their citizens (that of Arab countries) will see this as what they perceive to be America’s ongoing war on Islam.”

I’ve got goosbumps.

By: Blogic

Blogic — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:54:20 +0000

link to story:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=1dc9edb3-e6c3-4eb0-8adb-152313d4ef36&k=15287

By: Blogic

Blogic — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:52:55 +0000

There was an interesting story today on Afghanistan preventing a UN vote on condemnation of human rights in Iran. The motion fell by two votes, one of which could have been Afghanistan’s. Canada was seen as suffering from the vote - because the Canadian UN ambassador had brought forth the motion.