UPDATED/ The Pentagon’s “Worst Case Scenario”: Taleban Rule in Somalia and Pakistan, Nukes in Iran, and Mayhem in Iraq….
Verily, the paths of Allah are full of “surprises”.
As feared by your humble servant, the “unthinkable” happened: Mogadishu was taken over by the East African subsidiary of Al Qaeda Corp.
And as if it were not enough, Ben Laden’s zealous disciples have also seized stockpiles of brand new weapons and ammunitions left behind by Rumsfeld’s "Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism", a chaotic coalition of hapless warlords and bloodthirsty gangsters lumped together by the Pentagon’s strategic planners in the name of “the defence of freedom”.
I sometimes wonder if the Bush administration is doing everything it can to best ensure OBL’s victory…
Verily, the paths of Allah are full of “surprises”.
As feared by your humble servant, the “unthinkable” happened: Mogadishu was taken over by the East African subsidiary of Al Qaeda Corp.
And as if it were not enough, Ben Laden’s zealous disciples have also seized stockpiles of brand new weapons and ammunitions left behind by Rumsfeld’s "Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism", a chaotic coalition of hapless warlords and bloodthirsty gangsters lumped together by the Pentagon’s strategic planners in the name of “the defence of freedom”.
I sometimes wonder if the Bush administration is doing everything it can to best ensure OBL’s victory…
posted by Dr Victorino de la Vega at 11:50 AM
13 Comments:
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After reading this selection and the comments posted before, I begin to take offense, just as I take offense to ignorant conservative views, to views that definitively portray the pentagon and the Bush administration as wrong and as failures.
You (Dr Vega) may believe that you have enough knowlegde and evidence to claim these negative assumptions, but I would question your phony intellectualism.
Your personal bias is preventing you from giving due credit to opposing views.
For instance, your negative tone arises when you speak about the conservatives, the pentagon, and US soldiers...how can you gain more knowledge and understanding if you don't consider a vast array of opinions and views???
“views that definitively portray the pentagon and the Bush administration as wrong and as failures”
Dunno mate as they say in England.
I mean would you suggest “tentatively” portraying them as “right and successful?”
Sort of the benefits of the doubt thing…
And after all why not? We’ve only had to deplore the deaths of a mere 2,700 US servicemen and 600,000 Iraqi civilians: it’s clearly too early to judge by our government’s neo-Spartan standards!
“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war”.
(Donald Henry Rumsfeld, German war criminal)
I'm sorry, people don't normally understand me right away because I always seem to be offering the opposing argument and people believe the opposing argument is my opinion--"sort of the benefits of the doubt thing"
This is all I'm saying: Consider the other side! Don't reject it or present it as if it was given by some heretic.
Again, you present information and quotes that strongly support your argument and your style of arguing would work well for an English paper, but it does not bear the legitimacy that your argument could attain.
Consider objectively looking into the other side...
> This is all I'm saying: Consider the
> other side!
Would you be kind enough to actually enlighten us about this elusive "other side", its identity, its ideas, weltanschauung and projects ?
For right now your call to further objectivity seems more like an esthetic posture of naïve good intentions...
Hey Chapi,
Mitra sait que tu nous as manqué : Chakhâkh et moi on se faisait un sang d’encre sur le ton du « méch ma3oul ya3ni weïn khtafa Chapi ? »
Quoi qu’il en soit, au nom de l’amicale des lecteurs du MEM, sache que nous sommes ravis de te revoir parmi nous.
Au fait, tu devrais ajouter une adresse e-mail à ton profil Blogger, histoire qu’on puisse te contacter.
A bientôt j’espère,
Dr V
Yeah, we're in a mess right now. It's awful.
Bien à toi grand Stratéguerre,
tes mots me vont droit au coeur. Et je n'oublie pas mon coreligionnaire grand adepte des douches dorées.
Quand à mon absence du cyberespace, elle tenait principalement à la violence aliénante de l'impératif de production qui me laissait peu de temps pour autre chose...
Une autre raison, quoique plus mineure, tenait a l'empoisonement des rapports humains que provoque ce vénin qu'est la politique libanaise, même à des milliers de Km... Me laissant donc partiellement amère face à toute cette mascarade...
Mais bon les deux orages semblent s'éclaircirent.
Je prends acte de ta suggestion finale et agirait en conséquence sous peu ;).
A bientôt then
I'll have to side with chapichapo on this one, Ricky... One reason is because your reasoning's a bit like the Bush administrations; circular in nature, not much for truth, but great for flipping over and going flop. It would be great after six years at the helm if I could trust one damn word that comes out of any of them...
For a famous chap once said, "...your call to further objectivity seems more like an esthetic posture of naïve good intentions." Words to ponder, my friend. Words to ponder.
I expected these sort of responses that revealed resentment and ignorance to the other side. Yet all of you must first understand that I do not fully grasp every side, view, or opinion. However, I make a strong attempt to explore and understand every side.
"Would you be kind enough to actually enlighten us about this elusive "other side", its identity, its ideas, weltanschauung and projects ? " (chapichapo)
You must be open to different ideas first! All of you may think you are, but I promise you that you are misled...however, it's nearly impossible to show this in a timely fashion.
Again, personally I don't fully understand the more conservative, pro-American side because I'm still stuck defining justice, good, evil, happiness, etc..
For instance, the difference between idealistic Socrates' just and unjust truths and realistic Machiavelli's just and unjust truths leave me unsettled.
The end justifies the means? OR ARE THE MEANS JUSTIFIED IN THEMSELVES???
"Words to ponder, my friend. Words to ponder" (thepoetryman)
Again, I don't necessarily believe the more power politic side, but I don't reject it because this side has significant base and logic.
I'm just an open explorer
> You must be open to different ideas
> first! All of you may think you are,
> but I promise you that you are misled
Misled ? May I ask what drives you to such a conclusion ?
Chapi,
You got mail …
Boy, you college boys and your fancy speech!
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