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Post by stilltrucking » December 4th, 2008, 6:19 pm

Cecil wrote:
enough of this bullshit! nobody is stopping it and we have no alternative but to crush these radicals..!" It could very well happen... full-fledged war against them and their allies. What choice does the world have that hasn't been attempted?
Probably a lot of things have not been attempted, have you forgot who has been the president of the United States these past eight years?


You know Cecil a military response is probably just what they want.


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This is an old cartoon, the totals are much higher now.
The attack on Mumbai, formerly Bombay, was a deliberate attempt to harm a city whose soul has already been seared with hate. It was an attack on an old enemy, India, that intentionally tried to fan old hatreds.

But it also seeks to draw India deeper into the growing cycle of violence that has begun to strangle South Asia. Before long, the politics of extremism could engulf Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

That could spell disaster in a deeply divided and nuclear-armed subco

The sudden chill in India-Pakistan relations came just as Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi was visiting his Indian counterpart in the Indian Punjabi capital of Chandigarh.

What remains unspoken, is the fact it is in the interests of radical Islamists to set India and Pakistan on a near war footing with each other.

Such a move would destabilize Pakistan's newly elected government, which has shown signs of increasing co-operation with the United States in Afghanistan. It would also force Pakistan's military to shift its attention back towards its traditional enemy, India, rather than fight a counter-insurgency war against the Taliban and Islamic terrorists in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas.
ibid

I had a similiar discussion a few months ago with someone aboot the Russian invasion of Georgia.

He said that we could not let that stand, that we needed to put an ass whupping on Russia.


I bet you have your temper under better control than I do Cecil.

Have you ever got into a tug or war with an elephant?

I have. I got angry and frustrated and she straightened me right out.

Do you remember when India and Pakistan were on the brink of nuclear war a few years ago. The Muslims have their own version of Armageddon I have heard. And some of them want to bring it about just as much as our christian jihadists

Well that's my opinion, and you know what they say about a$$holes and I got one of those two.

I think I will listen to some music now.

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Pick any one or none at random.

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Post by mtmynd » December 5th, 2008, 7:43 pm

truck - i love your replies. take as many as you need to get it out. it's make us feel better... much better.. drained and fulfilled at the same time... all those words carefully plotted then scattered like confetti all across the reader's mind as if a colored snow fall was breaking the confined silence of entropy distilling the awakening moments of reality breathing salt air as each and every one of us succumbs to life - one breath, one thought, one smile at a time... tick, tick, tick... the clock is human intervention in an otherwise eternal dance of non-humanity... praise be holy imagination... you marry well with creativity to construct new beginnings that end whenever interest wains and only then... farewell the mermaid...

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Post by tarbaby » December 5th, 2008, 9:20 pm

I could use a day at the beach. Sometimes the wind comes out of the South East and brings the Gulf of Mexico to me.

Just thinking about you while I was writing to mingo

Something
Somewhat
Tangential too
But not totally unrelated to
SS 187

Had a hell of a night last night
Usually when the demons come at me from the back of my eyelids they are fearsome looking and I smile and say bring it on.

But the one last night took the form of a cute little dog.
It was hell and it was all in my head.

I can usually sleep fast but it took me a couple of hours to drift down into it last night.

As always
I appreciate your reply

jt
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Post by e_dog » January 15th, 2009, 6:15 am

Obama is a mama-jama.
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.

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