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But some in the Obama administration are now seeing things differently.
"The war on terror is over," a senior official in the State Department official tells the National Journal. "Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism."
For the president himself, this new thinking comes from a "realiz[ation that] he has no choice but to cultivate the Muslim Brotherhood and other relatively 'moderate' Islamist groups emerging as lead political players out of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere."
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" the war on terror is over" tell that too the ppl blown up on a bus in Bulgaria! Also with the Olympics about too start in a couple days I wouldn't be conting my chickens before eggs hatch just yet. Seems like there have been several other incidents over the last few years involving offshoots of al queada trying too blow up US airliners also.
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The war on terror was over when Hussein victoriously became President of the United States of America.
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Someone's alleged that the pope wears a pointy hat. Is this true?
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McCain's reflexive move is to always protect those he works with, regardless of their politics, before the interests of his country or party. McCain is a bureaucrat of the worst kind.
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McCain's reflexive move is to always protect those he works with, regardless of their politics, before the interests of his country or party. McCain is a bureaucrat of the worst kind.
You have no idea. McVain was known as a Buddy Fu&*er in an around the Light-Attack community. He'd look after your wife while you were deployed...if you know what I mean.
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"The war on terror is over," a senior official in the State Department official tells the National Journal. "Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism."
I could be wrong but isn't Islamism mean militant expansionist Islam? Sort of like imperialism.
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McCain is often on the wrong side of politics with the wrong crowd.
The Holy Land Foundation trial showed them to be linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The strategic goals for the U.S. were formulated by the MB were stated as early as 1987.
The primary strategic concept to accomplish the Brotherhood's objective is "civilizational jihad," the usurpation and replacement of American Judeo-Christian and Western liberal social, political and religious foundations by Islam. The MSM and the left take a ho-hum attitude toward such threats. To them conservatives are the threat. They may want to put their collective heads under the Islamic sword but not me.
Russia has long struggled with Islamic (and other) terrorists in the Caucasus. President Vladimir Putin promised to eradicate terror networks and separatists movements as he rose to power in 1999 and 2000, and ever since then he's been ruthless in targeting enemies of the state. The days of hostage crises and apartment block bombings are gone, but danger, still lurking in the mountains of the Caucasus, is expanding to other parts of Russia too.
Part of Putin's support for Assad comes from fear that if religious extremists win in Syria, or if chaos allows them to develop bases and networks, fighters, money and other things will start moving through the mountainous regions into Russia itself. The "Sunni surge" sweeping the Middle East threatens Russia through the Caucasus and through Central Asia.
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Maybe Russia has picked up on our cynical old strategy of keeping the various Muslim factions in balance militarily, and pre-occupied with killing each other.
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The overwhelming majority of Muslims in Russia is Sunni. Here you go.
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Also Chechnyan rebels are Sunnis and supported by Saudi Arabia, Iran's mortal enemy.
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"Morely likely Putin's is afraid that if Assad falls, Syria will not pay the Russian debt."
Doncha' just hate it when a cash-paying customer goes bankrupt - or their corrupt regime just collapses? Sheeesh ... it's hard to find stable third world dictatorships these days.
Great (and long) analysis by Josh Stanton, filled with one-liners I wish I had created. Worth the read if you think 1) there is a real chance of 'reform' in North Korea 2) Pudgy is a man of the people and/or 3) Pudgy can stand up to octogenarian generals who learned how to backstab when Joe Stalin was still alive.
Recommended.
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IMO the bigger picture is Rising China's newfound "aggressionism" throughout East Asia.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA TO GARRISON DISPUTED ISLANDS | CHINA APPROVES CITY COUNCIL, MILITARY BASE ON DISPUTED ISLANDS, vee new "Sansha" City = offshore Province composed of the Xisha [Paracels], Nansha [Spratlys], Zhongsha + Dhongsha islands; + wid a "Division-Level" [or higher?] PLA military establishment.
* RELATED DAILY TIMES.PK > CHINA TO FORMALLY GARRISON SOUTH CHINA SEA.
ARTICS ABOVE = MOVE BY CHINA SEEN AS DIRECT CHALLENGE TO US POSITION IN SCS + SE ASIA.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA DEMANDS THE BEAR [Russia] RELEASE SEIZED FISHERMEN [+ their seized Fishing Vessels].
Methinks its safe to say that Rising China is now MilPol challenging the pro-US stance or modus of the entire "First Island Chain", from Okinawa + Daoyus/Senkkaus in NE Asia down to the SCS + Sri Lanka.
POSTERS/BLOGGERS = opine that CHINA WILL OR SHOULD INVADE JAPAN IFF THE LATTER DECIDES TO DEV A NUCLEAR ARSENAL OF ITS OWN.
IMO Jong-un is playing it safe wid Beijing, + truth be told the US-ROK-Nippon may want him to for time being - DILYUHN DOLLAR, MAHA-RUSHIAN QUESTION IS "HOW LONG"???
[Dawn] JUST when the shock at the last grotesque outrage begins to wear off, Pak society seems to throw up a new incident to recoil at. As reported in this paper, the Supreme Court on Friday came down hard on the Punjab administration over reports that a woman had been stoned to death in a village near Khanewal. Adding to the shocking -- though, can it be termed as shock anymore? -- Maryam Bibi, a 25-year-old mother, was lynched on the orders of a local panchayat. She had reportedly refused a landlord's advances, which led to the man levelling questionable charges against her and to the woman's eventual lynching in her own home. The incident reflects a frightening proclivity for violence on the flimsiest of contexts.
The negative role jirgas and panchayats have played in Pakistain, particularly where the abuse of women is concerned, is no great secret. Going on the available facts of this incident, this sort of twisted system of 'justice' punishes women even if they try and defend themselves from rape and assault. Passing laws and making commissions is great, but two major steps need to be taken to check incidents such as these. Firstly, the specific laws regarding human and women's rights must be taken up in a methodical way. This includes punishing police and administration officials who look the other way or are complicit in the crime by protecting 'influential' suspects. For example, in this case the apex court has censured the police for not taking action despite knowing about the crime. Secondly, a social catharsis and rebirth of sorts is needed -- difficult as it may be. It would be a slow process and would require civil society, politicians, community leaders and the clergy working together to end such crimes. The road towards eradicating violence in the name of tradition in Pakistain is long and bumpy. Yet the state and society cannot sit idle and must act to ensure incidents such as the one in Khanewal do not occur in this country, while those responsible for the woman's murder must be punished.
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This guy,and the commenters, clearly don't understand trends.
Talk about spitting upwind--as we say in polite society.
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"...The negative role jirgas and panchayats have played in Pakistain, particularly where the abuse of women is concerned, is no great secret..."
On the other hand, the negative role of Islam may not be spoken.
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[Dawn] JUST when the shock at the last grotesque outrage begins to wear off, Pak society seems to throw up a new incident to recoil at. As reported in this paper, the Supreme Court on Friday came down hard on the Punjab administration over reports that a woman had been stoned to death in a village near Khanewal. Adding to the shocking -- though, can it be termed as shock anymore? -- Maryam Bibi, a 25-year-old mother, was lynched on the orders of a local panchayat. She had reportedly refused a landlord's advances, which led to the man levelling questionable charges against her and to the woman's eventual lynching in her own home. The incident reflects a frightening proclivity for violence on the flimsiest of contexts.
