In which a crusty Washington insider tries to convince us that if only we cracked down on the Indians, the Pakistanis would become confident enough to allow us to accommodate their legitimate interests in meddling in Afghanistan.
Written in the tone-deaf style that only WaPo and the NYT do so well.
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/09/2010 00:00 ||
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Are about the same as your "Israeli Problem" in ME: you want to piss on your friends in order to appease your enemies---ones that won't be satisfied with anything short of your complete extermination. Credentialed a$$hole.
#2
Between China and India are nearly half the population of the planet. We are much better off being their friends. Pakistan needs to get over their phobia of India and realize that they could have a very powerful ally right next door if they could set aside their ego.
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Pakistan can NEVER make true peace with India, since that would undercut the entire rationale for the country to begin with. The only reason that there is a Pakistan is that the vicious little buggers could not get along with the rest of the Indians and had to split off.
#4
siding with India is the smart and right thing to do. The Pakis have proven to be half-hearted allies, and are actively supporting our enemies in the interests of their "Great Game" aspirations. It would be nice to neuter their nukes and force them to change or put them to the sword. They are a Islamic nuthouse and backwater, not a great power.
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/09/2010 19:57 Comments ||
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An excerpt from Rall's new book: The Anti-American Manifesto...
We are here because the U.S. is going to end soon. There's going to be an intense, violent, probably haphazard struggle for control. It's going to come down to us versus them. The question is: What are you going to do about it?...
Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-the-worlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with "mainstream" gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the "Godless," "secular" United States for decades. In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party.
A war is coming. At stake: our lives, the planet, freedom, living. The government, the corporations, and the extreme right are prepared to coalesce into an Axis of Evil. Are you going to fight back? Will you do whatever it takes, including taking up arms?... A lot of people laughed when Osama Bin Laden declared war on those he called Jews and Crusaders. Meanwhile, Janet Napolitano wants to keep close tabs on the Right?
#4
Bring it, Rally-boy. We will make sure your corpse goes on the pile of all the other tin-pot dictators that have tried to steal American's freedoms.
#5
To all the socialist-revoluntionaries out there - pls heed "Rall's Call" - I just cleaned my arsenal over the weekend and need some trigger time before deer season starts...I'll actually feel worse about the deer.
His delirious ranting reminds me of the scene in the Blues Brothers movie where the Nazis are marching and ranting about jews using blacks against whites and what were the whitey's going to do about it. Hilarious crap - youtube it if you get a chance.
#6
The last thing the Left really wants to do is remove the collar from the core of America. Pictures of Charleston SC after Sherman finished with it or Tokyo after LeMay dealt with it should give one pause to consider going to war. Particularly a movement that is dependent upon urban islands to sustain itself. What Katrina did to New Orleans should have been a warning that populations that are dependent upon imported food, water, power and sustainment are vulnerable to interdiction from without.
The basis of power is not the ballot box, but as Lincoln extolled as 'the last full measure of devotion'. The Left expects their cannon fodder rather than themselves to pay that price. They'll find out that union thugs, gang members, academics from the studies departments, and welfare dependents do not an army make.
#7
Ted Rall is certifiably nuts. His mumblings sound like the last gasp of a dying radical movement. The founding fathers had the wisdom to develop the Bill of Rights of which the Second Amendment is a part. No wonder the anti-gunners are all about confiscation and control. As I recall, guns were gathered up during and after Katrina. The people could not defend themselves from the thugs. The socialists/radical left/communists would love to disarm this country if they could figure out how to do it just as Adolph Hitler did and other dictators.
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'Will you do whatever it takes, including taking up arms?..."
Which arms are those, Ted?
The ones you want nobody to be able to have?
"At stake: our lives, the planet, freedom..."
Other than the freedom to have sex with whatever and whomever you want, and write about it or film it and call it art, what freedoms do the left actually care about?
Posted by: no mo uro ||
11/09/2010 14:11 Comments ||
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Come on now, the most important freedom, the freedom to extort money from the productive.
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Ted Rall needs to remember that those with the guns and military experience are MOSTLY on the other side...
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
11/09/2010 16:46 Comments ||
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Ha! I'll bet Ted's afraid of spiders.
Hopefully, after it's over, I'll still be around to write the history of his wet dream lefty war. Working title is, "Wow, Look at All the Dead Hippies".
#20
Awright! The Revolution is finally here. Fighting in the streets! Let's all put on our ninja clothes and go vandalize a Starbuck's. Hey, who are all those people with guns?
Commentary by several folks, including Rove and other pundits. Some Trunk is begging Pelosi to stay - more, faster! I liked the opinion of Martin Frost, who was my representative when I lived in Texas, despite my voting for the other guy.
Specifically, congressional Democrats must insist that Obama and the people around him stop thinking and acting like out-of-touch suburban white liberals and figure out how to connect with mainstream America. They don't want to connect, Martin, only to direct.
There were two main examples during the campaign this fall - their preoccupation with the subject of corporate campaign money (something the average voter couldn't care less about) and their frequent visits to college campuses, speaking to young people who don't vote in off-year elections. Couldn't sell their messages - Trunk contributions are bad and you lazy kids need to go vote for me again.
They should have been focusing on the economic woes of middle-class, blue-collar voters and the insecurity of senior citizens. Their campaigning fell flat, and we got killed in the heartland of America. Heartland, schmartland! pass the camerbert, please.
Congressional Democrats must tell the White House that it had better focus on job creation and retirement security the next two years and leave campaign finance reform to the wine-and-cheese crowd. It's time for the president to stop being a college professor lecturing an empty classroom and to start being a smart, hard-nosed politician who leads a political party. If he doesn't, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will take him and our party to the cleaners. Nobody will listen to Martin; he's a has-been from Texas.
Posted by: Bobby ||
11/09/2010 06:39 ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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