To function, institutions have to be able to prioritize - even big, bloated, money-no-object SWAT-teams-for-every-penpusher institutions like the US Government. You can't crack down on Kinder eggs, bagpipes and Ebola: At a certain point, you have to choose. My line with the Homeland Security guys is a simple one: every 20 minutes you spend on me, or my kids' chocolate eggs, or Cameron Webster's bagpipe is 20 minutes you're not spending on the guy with Ebola, or Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The price of bagpipe scrutiny is a big hole blown in the lives of American families attending the Boston Marathon, or a bunch of schoolkids in Dallas having to be quarantined for a vicious, ravaging disease with a high fatality rate.
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Things are going pretty well in Eastern Europe, despite what is said on FOX news. We've got our very best men from the Clandestine Homeland Administration and Oversight Services (CHAOS) on it. Out of an abundance of caution I assure you.
[DAWN] PAKISTAIN’S drift towards international isolation is only matched by the state’s denial of this truth.
On Wednesday, the joint US-India statement issued at the end of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington D.C. contained direct language seemingly focused on Pakistain.
It is worth reproducing the relevant part of the text: “The [US and Indian] leaders stressed the need for joint and concerted efforts, including the dismantling of safe havens for terrorist and criminal networks, to disrupt all financial and tactical support for networks such as Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba
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Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past.
In 1991, after the Kuwait War had ended and as Saddam Hussein attacked Iraq's six million Kurds, I made three arguments against American intervention on their behalf, arguments still commonly heard today: (1) Kurdish independence would spell the end of Iraq as a state, (2) it would embolden Kurdish agitation for independence in Syria, Turkey, and Iran, leading to destabilization and border conflicts, and (3) it would invite the persecution of non-Kurds, causing "large and bloody exchanges of population."
All three expectations proved flat-out wrong. Given Iraq's wretched domestic and foreign track record, the end of a unified Iraq promises relief, as do Kurdish stirrings in the neighboring countries. Syria has fractured into its three ethnic and sectarian components: Kurdish, Sunni Arab, and Shi'i Arab, which promises benefits in the long term. Kurds' departing Turkey usefully impedes the reckless ambitions of now-President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Similarly, Kurds decamping Iran helpfully diminishes that arch-aggressive mini-empire. Far from non-Kurds fleeing Iraqi Kurdistan, as I feared, the opposite has occurred: hundreds of thousands of refugees are pouring in from the rest of Iraq to benefit from Kurdistan's security, tolerance, and opportunities.
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Sounds like Kurdistan might become the America of the Middle East.
Interesting times!
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He says this like its a BAD thing? it would embolden Kurdish agitation for independence in Syria, Turkey, and Iran, leading to destabilization and border conflicts,
Iran, Syria, and Turkey being forced to give independence to a people they have brutally repressed? A people who have been very tolerant culturally and religiously? A people who have been frinedly to the US? That's exactly why we should have been doing this all along.
I've been pissed at State and the effete suitwearing morons for years for thiere maintaining the idiotic position that represses Kurdistan for the convenience of Turkey Iran Iraq and Syria.
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Things are going pretty well in Eastern Europe, despite what is said on FOX news. We've got our very best men from the Clandestine Homeland Administration and Oversight Services (CHAOS) on it. Out of an abundance of caution I assure you. 
[DAWN] PAKISTAIN’S drift towards international isolation is only matched by the state’s denial of this truth.
