Sunday, October 3, 2010
European travel alert
Posted by Max Brantley on Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:28 AM
The State Department has issued a warning alerting U.S. travelers to Europe to be vigilant about potential terror attacks. The alert arises from intelligence about plots arising in Pakistan and North Africa that target Britain, France and Germany.
What do you think?
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"'Scuse me, but unless and until you can give me the color code associated with this level of terr'rist risk, it is meaningless to me."
--Geo. W. Bush
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What I think is that terrorists can win by default, without actually sacrificing themselves for their cause or going to the trouble of developing and initiating a plan of attack, if they can change for the worse the lives of their target nations or "enemy" groups by mongering fear. Sort of like a modern Republican political campaign.
Fear fear fear! Hold on to your last remaining liberties! Oh wait.. they are already gone.
I'm already against the next war. (Pakistan/Iran?)
I think that Obama is following the best course of action in Pakistan for now. After the election, he needs to break the news that we won't be withdrawing from Afghanistan by July 2011. And he needs to remind Carl Levin who is the commander-in-chief.
Anyone who has flown lately knows that in that arena, the terrorists have already won. I am 55 years old; nothing in my life span has deteriorated as much or as quickly as the quality and enjoyment of air travel. And that includes my sex life.
RC, Because American neo-infliction of imminent domain (oil and gas pipeline/ routes) in Pakistan is really working out for us. Trillions of dollars over a decade so far.. and we don't even have safe passage through Kyber Pass.
Yeah boy.. that's doing the right thing alright... take on another 160 million innocents!
Eureka - We can't abandon Afghanistan again. That is how it became a failed state and a haven for international terrorists after the Soviet withdrawal. Let's not repeat that mistake again.
P.S. it's 'eminent domain'. I make that mistake occasionally too.
There won't be any abandonment of Afghanistan anytime soon. Now that it's known the extent of Afghan's extensive mineral deposits that will be an occupied nation until the minerals run out or gringos have a secure monopoly on the sources.
Afghanistan's known oil reserves? Zero.
That's why Cheney made Bush leave it alone and turn it back over to Al queda.
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"WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/as…
Off the subject, but RC reminded me of a Dr. of Education that taught a graduate class I was in. He kept getting syllables mixed around, talking about the power of schools to take property by "intimate domain". Pretty intimate, alright, if you ask me.
E, the mineral survey was news several years ago. They trotted it out as justification for us to stay. Hmmm, how many lives for an unknown supply of "minerals" will die so the international corportations can get richer?
The data showing the mineral deposits was actually developed by the U. S. but we never put the dots together (sound familar?) but the Chinese did and they are there, ON THE GROUND, mining for minerals (I think copper).
In the US, we were too busy losing our civil liberties to the Bush-initiated actions in response to OBL to notice that the terrorists won by forever changing the way the US does business.
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