Bahu Virupaksha

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[quote] They will interfere with your jihad to promote the doctored propaganda[/quote] I do not believe in jihad and consider the senseless violence unleashed in the name of Islam to be a crime against humanity. So I do not have to keep saying this. I see the incident as a violation of human rights. I have said in my post itself that the 2 were in an area that had seenm sectarian violence and so my question is: Why the second strike when it became clear that the 2 photographers

Reply to Unrestrained Killing in Iraq in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]You're a broken record, Bahu. Gave me flashbacks. Nice writing style, though, if you like that sort of thing.[/quote] Daiwa, honestly I did not understand both the "style" and the "flashback" bits. Elaborate ?

Reply to Unrestrained Killing in Iraq in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]You can't describe it as an act of senseless killing and then call it a bad judgment call. You need to decide if you are sincerely accusing them of purposely killing innocent people just for the fun of it or if they made a mistake and killed them as a bad judgment call. or accept that this may be incorrect as DrGuy is claiming. I [/quote][quote]You story is about the killing of innocent people in 2007 and these horrors are what are unfolding now? I have to agree with Leauki, if our atr

Unrestrained Killing in Iraq in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The US war effort in Iraq is undermined by the very savergery of its sometimes unrestrained killing. Of course, in a war zone the forces are at liberty to shoot and shoot to kill if need be, but it apperars that gratuitous acts of great violence are being carried out without any tactical advantage or objective. On July 12, 2007 an employees of Reuters, Baghdad,Namir Noor-Eldeem who was all of 22 years old was killed by a deadly burst of 30 millimetre M230 chain guns

Reply to Democracy American Style and the Iran, Pakistan Afghanistan Tangle in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]If Afghanistan had decided to murder its citizens and not stray outside its borders, there would have been no need to do something about them. That they could not even tame their own country before deciding to "Stan-icize" the rest of the world meant they had to be stopped and apparently the only ones with the cajones to do it are GB and the USA[/quote] President Obama has a peculiar phrase for a foreign policy that aims at making citizens of a bunch of tribals: AF_-PAK policy.

Democracy American Style and the Iran, Pakistan Afghanistan Tangle in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The elections in Iraq have produced a result that the US had not anticipated. Allawi, a former Prime Minister has emerged as a front runner. In Afghnistan the US and its surrogate Hamid Karzai are openly squabbling and the US has even threatened to "withdraw" the invitation extended to Karzai to visit the White House. I think the only major power that has a policy of "uninviting" a head of state is the USA. Karzai has served US interests well by providing a pashtun face for what is essentiall

Reply to What do YOU look for in an employer? in Current Events Stardock Forums

I do think that MNC are the organisations of the future. I also believe that the average American worker is a sincere, devoted and his/her productivity is amongst the highest in the world. I am not sure that the work place is so soulless as is made out to be because I have not worked in one. Unions are BAD for the Comapny and are incredibly disruptivr.

Reply to US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events Stardock Forums

Dr Guy and Rightwinger have had some kind things to say about me from vastly different perspectives. First, I do not come from an anti-American point of view. I have had the opportunity of studying in a very good US graduate school in my field of medieval history which I now teach along with Historiography. In fact I am anti liberal and anti socialist. I would call my self a civil libertarian without being an appologist for sundry violent terrorists. I felt this clarification was necessary as

Reply to US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I wrote this blog on the counterproductive nature of drone attacks, but it has drifted too far afield. I do hope that the Western initiative in Afghanistan will be successful, but with the kind of strategy that is being deployed, I am not all sure.

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[quote]But as I said, I don't like reading interpretations. I don't want to know the views of historians, I'd rather just read facts and what they meant at the time and then make up my own mind about them. [/quote][quote]Again, I do read facts. I just don't care about other people's interpretations. That's why it didn't surprise me that there are several theories about how everything was the big evil industrialists' fault.[/quote] Historical reconstruction is a complex process and all

Reply to US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]However, in the last year of the war, Germans were free not to hunt down Jews and go unpunished. But they didn't. And after the war Germans were free to denounce Hitler and celebrate Stauffenberg, but they didn't. And there are no excuses for that. [/quote] I think you should read David Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Excecutioners and this argument is fleshed out in that book.

Reply to US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events Stardock Forums

Just this morning 12 Afghan civilians were killed in the assault on Majrah.

Reply to US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Yeah, sorry...don't know how I ever came up with that. [/quote] It really does not matter. I am happy that you, like me do take that consequences of political decisions seriously enough to reflect over them.

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[quote]The people of Germany chose their side. They made their bed, and many died in it.[/quote][quote]I wonder how many lives were saved because the war ended a few days sooner because of the terror created by the bombing of Dresden. I wonder how many Chinese lives were saved because the nuclear bombs taught the Japanese that they too can become victims of their war[/quote] The point I tried to make is that acts of unspeakable violence does take palce during the course of a war. I am

Reply to US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]At least you're consistent in your disregard of, and hatred for, America[/quote]I had said that in the context of each drone attack. Not every day as you put. I am afraid that USA has to abide by International Law even if the US can get away with a great deal because of its status as the sole "hyper power". Wring on that. The War on Afghanistan and its home grown opium satiated wahabi terrorista is spot on and Iraq was not needed. In fact US would have been better off with

Reply to Enemy Of The State in Writing JoeUser Forums

I think it is right to fordid the use of tobacco in public places as passive smokers took can get affected.

Reply to West Coast, Prison, And Back Again in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Liked your post. Hope you feel better.

Reply to US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]Obama...that war criminal!!!![/quote][quote]Dreseden is of course a tragedy - it happened 13th-15th February 1945.. But as you pointed out and many have argued before, it is difficult to isolate the bombing from its context of the war and the general atmosphere. It isn't very enlightening to judge Dresden just by the number of people that had died.[/quote][quote]The lure of drones is exactly that they DON'T necessarily kill large numbers of people; that they can be targeted directly, t

US DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Each war faught during the course of this century of "extremes" as one prominent historian put is has had its own unique features. The horrendous bloodletting in the trenches during World War I, captured so evocatively by Remarque in All Quiet on the Western Front, the large scale destruction of cities and civillian life and property at Dresseden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not to forget the Japanese atrocities at Shanghai and Nanking, th

Reply to Global Warming - A Comedy of Errors in Politics JoeUser Forums

The Chairman of IPCC Dr Rajender Pachauri is certainly guilty of misleading the whole world by trotting up dates that are figment of feverish imagination. The 2035 melt down date for the Himalayan Glaciers is not sourced from a good scientific journal but from a travel magsazine. It now appears that Dr R K Pachuri has had a vested interest in companies dealing with "green technology" whose stocks kept rising in the days after the sumit.

Reply to Chemical Ali Executed in War on Terror Stardock Forums

The BBC Report only stated that 5000 victims were burried in a common grave. It did not try to understate the enormity of what had happened.

Erich Segal: Author, Historian and Poet in Books JoeUser Forums

I did not believe my eyes when I read that Erich Segal the author of Love Story had died in London. I remember reading this wonderful novel set in Harvard and Radcliffe which touched all the emotional and political chords of the 1960's USA: a more innocent and less politically correct time. I was in High School when I read Love Story and I was struck up the culture and openess of American University education, and that impression prompted me to go to the US for

Reply to Where Obama Would Have Us Go in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I think Obama means well and the Health Insurance Bill will be eventually passed and it will benefir lots of people.

Reply to Why Obama's Af-Pak Policy will lead to Diaster in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]read. I concur with your analysis.[/quote][quote]A very to-the-point analysis of a difficult war.[/quote][quote]I am more and more impressed by Obama's new foreign policy which puts more emphasis on collaboration and respect for friends and less on doing things alone.[/quote] The War in Afghainstan wille a difficult one because of the terrain and also because there is every pobbibility of a war without a nreal enemy as the Taliban in Mao's famous phrase are like fish in water,an

Why Obama's Af-Pak Policy will lead to Diaster in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The long awaited "surge" has finally happened. In another 3 weeks 30,000 US servicemen and women will head toward Afghanistan. Unfortunately, President Obama has set a deadline for the troops to meet: July 2011. This unrealistic deadline already spelt out by the President and admitted as such to be unrealistic by both the Secretary of Defence and the Secretary of State will make things easier for the terrorists holed up in the mountains of AFGHANISTAN. They hav