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Evan's uniform was certainly "other-worldly". He would have been better off wearing his normal, boring all-black.
Evan's uniform was certainly "other-worldly". He would have been better off wearing his normal, boring all-black.
Actually, I think that's more like Evan's first LP costume from last year, with the huge padded shoulders.
Maybe yes, maybe no,
Mathematically, if Weir was skating like the same with the COP, but with 6.0 system, it might be.
But under 6.0 system, there weren't so many rules including maximizing jumping structure and psychologically, he could skate more freely without thinking those rules, he might have often skated clean with more room for concentration on his artistry. As a result he could be always in the top 3 and would not have to stay at home as well.
Who knows ? You can make many scenarios, conveniently for whatever you want.
Figure skating is kind of like a mind game and with this COP system it's also a stamina contest, so whoever of the top level skaters make their mind-set correctly, preparing their stamina well ,could win. IMO.
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I get really annoyed with Evan's programs because of the min-maxing of points. If he'd put a little more heart into it, he might sell it to me. But it looks like he just skates back and forth doing a lot of fast turns and kicks in the air, and scores a ton of points for it. Ugh.
Johnny skates with his heart on his sleeve, and that's why I love to watch him (well that, and the gorgeous line). I'm hoping he pulls off his very best at the Olympics, regardless of placement. I wish he'd rip off a quad and shock everyone, but I realize how unlikely that is.
So true Jemy, only Johnny put his heart and soul out there! His SP was sublime and his FS was so good except the two jump mistakes. Evan was sloppy and slow and the miss on the quad was big. Weir's PCS should have been higher. They need a better system for artistic scores. No problem with the TES.
I love what Johnny stands for. How he strives to keep artistry and beauty in Men's skating like male skaters Cranston, Wylie, Galindo, Yagudin and others did before him. Without him men's skating would be so dull. For me with Johnny it's not about the medals being number one, it's about the joy I get out of watching how stunningly, effortlessly, and creatively he skates. He is just like an angel. He has never been a "fallen one" in my heart. I will love him regardless of how he places in Vancouver. I just want him to be the best Johnny he can be. I know he can do it. He is so trained and focused. GO JOHNNY!!!
Woah totally not knocking either of them. I loved Ryan's FS, it was a huge accomplishment as far as jumps go... but the between elements were very weak and he received a generous gift from the judges in the PCS. Also thought his performance of that program was much better at Skate America. That being said he was definitely one of the highlights of the event and if I had super powers I'd magically make a 4th spot for the US men for him. But if his FS was a highlight, so was Weir's SP, and Abbott's FS of course (not quite as keen on his SP from an aesthetic and music point, but skated very well). I just felt Johnny's emotion the most in his performances. It's a personal thing, not saying the other guys didn't lay it out there at points either. I'm proud of our guys.
Oh, I liked the gray, I really did. For me, the solid black makes him look _too_ tall, almost gangly. The gray gives him a nicer proportion to my eye. I don't much like all the gathers/folds/whatever or the epaulets, but I really found the gray color a very nice choice.
Can't decide on Jeremy's blue shirt v. the tux, though!
Agreed. Jeremy really let himself go yesterday. Evan seemed a bit tense, like he was feeling out his new program layout. Johnny seemed cautious, especially after the popped axel.
I just watched the men's long again, and was able to enjoy it so much more. The first viewing, my heart was beating too hard, and I felt anxious about Johnny, so I didn't really see it. So, on second viewing...
Evan is confident, his jump technique has improved alot, he is pretty consistent, he is in terrific shape, but he just doesn't move me. He is dynamic but not musical.
I was initially disappointed with Johnny, but when I looked again - ah! One movement of his arms is so beautiful and expressive! I know he doesn't have the jump content some of the other guys have, but his transitions, footwork, spins and quality of jump landings are just a pleasure to behold. I really hope he keeps his nerves at bay and delivers a terrific performance at the Olympics, one that he can be proud of no matter what the outcome. I just love his edges, his arms and his spirit.
Jeremy was fantastic - confident, fast, good technical content. I don't think he has matured as a musical or expressive skater, but he was very good.
I think our men's team is terrific and I am excited to see how they will do.
I have a feeling that Johnny really well at the Olympics and go out with a splash. I think he got completely overwhelmed with the pressure to make the Olympic team that he made a few errors in the process, but he didn't implode by any means. I'm sure he's aiming for a medal, but there's no pressure on him nationally to get one.
Johnny's USFSC FS really is better upon 2nd viewing, 3rd viewing, and 4th! If you just mentally block his two jump mistakes, it's a great performance and all the other elements are not only solid, but spectacular with moments of the sublime. I hope he can skate both programs to their fullest potential in Vancouver. All that matters is he skates his best, and if a medal happens so be it!


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Toy company Hasbro has given Pocket-lint some playtime with a wide range of its Autumn and Winter line-ups - the products it's essentially pushing for the busy Christmas market.
We looked at a large range of games and toys for all ages, and while some of them stood out to us more than others - we are after all big kids over here - it must be said that there's something for everyone.
The games section caught our eye for re-imaginations of old classics, with some embracing technological enhancements. New versions of Boggle, Bop It!, Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly are on the horizon and looking particularly good.
Boggle Flash comprises of five electronic tiles that will each display a letter, you then have to make words by sliding them around. They know when you've made a word because of SmartLink technology and an internal dictionary, so will register each authorised word completed in the countdown time. At the end of a game, the tiles will tell you how many words you created, and the maximum number that was available.
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The new version of Monopoly will come as a surprise to some as, to celebrate its 75th Anniversary, it comes with a round board.
Monopoly Revolution is essentially the same game as the original, with the same place names, house and hotels, etc, but all the money is handled by a circular electronic bank and individual in-game credit cards for the players. Now, that's not exactly new - the Here & Now Edition has something similar - however, this time, the banking device also handles all the Chance and Community Card action, and plays accompanying music.
Costing £29.99, it's actually in shops now, but we can see it flying off the shelves as we near December.
Bop It! Bounce is a version of the frenetic party game where the pull-me, twist-me sections have been replaced with a trampoline style bat. The toy will shout commands at you to make you bounce higher, faster, and such like, while you have to obey and try to keep up. It can get a bit extreme, we don't mind telling you.
It costs £19.99 and will also follow in the Autumn.
Another one that's already available, for £29.99, Trivial Pursuit: Bet You Know It is an update to the popular quiz boardgame that adds a betting element to the gameplay.
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The final game that caught our eye is Cuponk - a simple yet addictive game of throwing a ping pong ball into a cup. That really is all there is to it, but it does flash LEDs around the bottom when the ball goes in, and it's only £12.99 so no complaints from us. It is, also, much much harder than you actually think.
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The world is rejoicing that the miners trapped for over a month in the bowels of a mountain in Chile are finally rescued. As the rescue was ongoing President Barack Obama said of the worried families, "the tears they shed after so much time apart expressed not only their own relief, not only their own joy, but the joy of people everywhere." Touching sentiments. These miners have to be joyful about one other thing: that they aren't miners trapped in an American mine during Obama's presidency. If they had been, they'd still be down there unable to wipe the tears from their loved one's faces.
Chile's President, Sebastián Piñera, famously set aside the bureaucracy of his country's regulations and set to work rescuing these trapped men. He threw open his arms and accepted help from as many interested nations as possible allowing their experts and scientists to lend a helping hand. The Herculean task was accomplished and everyone came out alive.
But if we can use the British Petroleum disaster in Louisiana as any indication, if those Chilean miners had had the misfortune to have been in an American mine disaster, they'd still be down there wasting away as Obama twiddled his thumbs, quite unlike Chile's president.
We have but to recall that Obama didn't even address the BP disaster for days after the extent of it had become known. Heck he didn't even bother contacting BP's CEO Tony Howard for 53 days into the disaster. And all during the attempts to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf waters Obama and his administration spent more time pointing fingers, blaming people and corporations, and proposing hasty and unnecessary new regulations that merely advanced his previous energy policies than worrying about stopping the flow of oil. And even as he claimed he'd spare the efforts of no expert, as he claimed that only the best engineers and scientists would be there to help stop the oil spill, at the same time he refused to allow many foreign nations and companies to come to our aid.
But it isn't just Obama at fault here. In fact, the worst government failures during the BP mess have been built into our system from top to bottom put there by power hungry government officials all across the country and at every level of government.
Sadly, we are now at a time when the grinding wheels of the all-powerful state are an impediment to everything we do. Can we stop the flow of oil into the Gulf? Not quickly, that's for sure. Can we build a memorial at Ground Zero? Apparently not, even ten years after the fact regulations, lawsuits, and political firefights have prevented anything from being achieved on the site of the downing of the Twin Towers. Some of the most iconic paeans to capitalism ever built have not only been felled by an Islamic enemy but have been made distant memories by a recalcitrant government.
Like disasters in America, business projects molder under stacks of needless paperwork, money is wasted on hundreds of "environmental impact studies," agencies stack up like wolves waiting for the sheep to be released as businesses worry over being devoured, and regulations that discourage progress are heaped upon every project. Red tape is thick enough to make anyone think thrice before wasting their time starting a new business or erecting a new building and our business community is sluggish and fearful of federal overreach.
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"Two new setbacks to NATO's war in Afghanistan"
#1 = NATO is LOSING
#2 = Taliban is WINNING
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"Two new setbacks to NATO's war in Afghanistan"
#1 = NATO is LOSING
#2 = Taliban is WINNING
Welcome to Afghanistan. This mixed-up place, tough men who almost seem to love fighting, a thick soup of tribes, religious fanatics, strong traditional virutes, drug and arms smugglers, is harder to rule and control than Americans comprehended. No point blaming Afghans taking the war to the US-NATO troops. Any people facing foreign occupationary force will do so. Even without the dishonouring of the Koran, crazy shooting of civilians, allegations of rape, USA would never been taken as friends of the afghans, delivering them from the Communists or the Mujahiddins or the Talibans.
Invading Afghanistan, murdering innocent people including women and children are bad enough, now US is refusing to cooperate with Afghan government to investigate this. How atrocious can you be?how cruel can you be?
Are Muslims sub-humans that you can kill, murder, urinate and burn their Korans?
If 16 innocent people were killed in the West under similar circumstance, even before the perpetrator was identified, the media would be full of stories of "islamic terrorist" attacks. But now everyone talks about a lone, troubled guy who just "snapped." Yes, I'm talking about you Mr. Media! Are you aware of your double standards?
"Kill team" cuts off fingers/body parts of Afghans (including civilians) and wears them as "trophies"-US Response "This is an isolated incident that does not reflect US troops deep respect for the people and culture of Afghanistan."
Video emerges of US troops urinating deceased Afghans-US Response "This is an isolated incident that does not reflect US troops deep respect for the people and culture of Afghanistan."
Burning of Korans-US Response"This is an isolated incident that does not reflect US troops deep respect for the people and culture of Afghanistan."
American servicemen (or several according to the Afghan govt: why only Bales being charged and the others scot free?)go into homes and slaugter unarmed men, women and children-USResponse "This is an isolated incident that does not reflect US troops deep respect for the people and culture of Afghanistan."
Somehow it's just not convincing anymore.
Raped a young girl and then killed her and her whole family.
Engaged in institutionalized torture of any prisoner they could get their hands on(that Lindy whatever and her fellow soldiers)
Had a 'murder squad' that went around killing civilians so they could pretend they had combat (just convicted of murder and from the same base as this killer)
Committed an act of 'monumental stupidity and cultural ignorance'-BBC on Koran burning
It is hypocrisy at its US best.
It is empty charade of US conceit.
Mr Obama, please wake up: It is glaringly obvious that US is the menace threatening other nations (especially the weak ones) with the largest number of deadly nuke weapons & these weak ones are compelled to get nuke weapons to protect themselves against hostile US.
To yearn to live in a nuke weapon-free world is not a far-fetched dream.
Anyone with common sense knows that the critical success factor is for belligerent US (that has largest number of deadly nuke & happy to use nuke to attack Hiroshima/Nakasaki) to get rid of all US nuke weapons first.
When US (UK and the like) talk, you can see they lie through their teeth with rhetoric and articulation of beautiful (but hollow) words with ulterior motives.
Leopards don't change their spots:US (UK and the like) are murderers:they're emperors without clothes
"Mr Obama, please wake up"
Believe me, the Obama is PERFECTLY WIDE AWAKE. These are not errors you're describing but rather official policy!
The funny thing about this war is that it is much more about the Western Public and their ideals than about the *true* interests of the Afghan people.
*We* do think they would love more schools, roads, hospitals and nice jobs in factories. And *we* think it would be great for them to have proper elections, proper police and proper justice.
But what do *they* think ??
They think that Mr Karzai and the current Afghan army are a corrupt nuisance in the pay of foreigners. The Afghans think that women belong to the kitchen, women and girls don't need to read and that the Taleban are men of honour, deep belief and much less corrupt than Mr Karzai and his minions.
They think that their traditional ways of "policing" and "justice" are as perfect as their traditional "medical system". They do *not* want their life disturbed by all the western innovations like roads, schools, police and hospitals.
They do indeed help the Taleban with weapons, shelter, food and intelligence. They conspire to kill western troops whom they consider invaders.
But the political class, the journalists, the weapons industry and the large assortment of do-gooders don't even think about accepting these realities. TE unfortunately is part of this idiocy.
Afghanistan is not a puzzle that defies solution because these problems have been encountered before in other eras of civilization. The problem for the USA lies in the fact that it has neither the resources nor time to babysit Afghanistan and this country needs a lot of time. It can be proven that Afghanistan is to the Islamic World what Bulgaria was to the Roman Empire in fact Kandahar Afghanistan is the geographic equivalent of Sofia Bulgaria . If this fact can be accepted then the history of Bulgaria / Thrace under Roman rule will help to guide our understanding of Afghanistan under Islamic rule. The problems and solution encountered in the Roman world are the same in the equivalent places of the Islamic World despite the difference in ethnicity and politics. All who seek to solve this Afghan enigma need to study Roman history following the invasion of the Avars in the seventh century AD. Without a thorough knowledge of the history and geography of that era we are simply wasting time and money
When the Americans entered Afghanistan they had a lot of goodwill. They had provided the arms to kick out the Russians and they had delivered the country from the yoke of the Taliban. It took America's Finest not very long to squander that goodwill. The killing spree of a deranged individual is unfortunate but a singular event, but there have been numerous incidents showing an appalling lack of discipline and professionalism.
If you unleash barely housebroken underdogs in a country they can neither spell nor find on the map, the results are not a pretty sight.
But you can't call the performance of American troops in Afghanistan exactly piss poor.
I think you should not take the mainstream media propaganda at face value. The reality is that the Taleban are liked by the majority of the population. The recent events haven't changed that much.
Its shameful, but the worse part is none of the guilty are genuinely sorry or bothered. How much longer before the rest of the world (read asia n south america) completely loses trust in NATO. And that is only going to strengthen Russia and China.
Muslims are killing people in almost every country in the world. China, Russia, India, Indonesia, The United States, England, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, all over Central Asia, all over the Middle East, all over Africa – everywhere there is any significant population of Muslims – they are killing people in the name of Islam. Whether they are killing Americans or Bangladeshis, or Nigerians, or Saudis, or Indians, or Chinese or Russians, or whoever in every case it is ALWAYS blamed on the US or Israel or someone, anyone, else. Whether it's Jihadists or simply Muslim fathers and brothers "honor killing" daughters and sisters for such heinous crimes as falling in love or wanting an education the only constant is Muslims killing people.
I am sure this is exactly what the serial killer was thinking when he went hunting / killing. It is so convenient to blame the victim - makes it easy to kill.
Colonialism, World Wars, Holocaust, Cold War etc... were terribly destructive. Who caused those? Muslims?
Clearly Muslims did not cause world wars 1 and 2 - just the current one. As for colonialism - gee, couldn't that apply to the Muslim conquest of Spain etc.?
Just as clearly Muslims are killing people in almost every country in the world because the dogma of their religion. Islam does not tolerate "infidels".
Muslims did not cause "this" current war. You accuse, you prove.
Muslims conquered a number of countries. They were not burdened with notions of racial superiority or obsessed with enriching a nation-state many seas away. They became a part of the people they conquered. The fact that they were able to maintain themselves in power for hundreds of years in various countries says something.
I know the dogma of my religion better than you can tell me or others. Stop misleading others with your delusions.
Do you deny that Jihadists have killed people in the US, Russia, China, India, The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, England, France, Germany, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Chad, Bangladesh, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Algeria,, Australia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Kirgizstan, Chechnya, Lebanon, Israel, Sudan, Libya, Niger, Yemen, Indonesia, Thailand, etc. etc. etc.?
If Islam is a religion of peace then clearly the Jihadists must be heretics. World religious leaders must consistently condemn jihadists as heretics and insist ALL Islamic religious leaders to do likewise.
Murder is OK if state-sponsored? What have CIA, Mossad, etc... been doing across the world?
Jihadists are reactionaries. They exist as a reaction. They are not organic to Islamic countries as such. We suffer them, we do not endorse them; and we resent hegemonic and imperialist policies that provide excuses to these people. And we protest against the agencies who indirectly fund and sponsor them. You include Pakistan in the list of countries above. Are we in Pakistan not at the receiving end of CIA & RAW? Do Americans & Indians not fish in troubled waters?
It is either Islamists (who endorse political process) or Jihadists. Take your pick. You can not have Election results manipulated (Pakistan), rigged (Egypt under Hosni Mubarak) or annulled (Algeria, 1990, via military) and then complain about Jihadists being a nuisance. If valid grievances are not addressed, then do not complain about blow-back.
It is easy to criticize, complain, gripe, cry. It is not easy to try to understand and be a part of solution.
I see, yes, reactionaries. So it has nothing to do with Islamic dogma. It's the CIA's and Israel's fault that Pakistani Sunnis blow up Pakistani Shiites and vice versa. As for Pakistani Christians and Ahmadis – well clearly the Israelis must be behind Islamist attacks on them. And then I guess the same applies to Islamists blowing up all those people (including a lot of fellow Muslims by the way) in ALL the countries mentioned in my posts above. Say - does that also apply to "honor killing" or is that more cultural than religious murder?
Do you think could it possibly be that perhaps if Islamic religious leaders would condemn murder it might be easier to find a solution?
I am not going to chase red herrings :-)
You circle back to the same old arguments, regurgitate the same old. I could rebut your reply, but what's the use? What that has been posted above suffices for any discerning reader.
I don't understand this line of reasoning. You were just given several valid points, and instead come up with a response that clearly shows you didn't comprehend what was written. No one claimed that Israel was behind this, and nothing of the sort was alluded to. No one was blaming outside forces, all that was said is that is that jihadis are reactionary, and not a product of theology.
But Jihadists murderers claim to kill in the name of Islam and Islam does not appear to disagree or condemn them at the least for blaspheme or, more appropriately if Islam is a religion of peace, as heretics. In fact if they die as suicide bombers or are subsequently killed they are hailed and celebrated as martyrs.
But then I'm just an infidel – what could possibly I know about right or wrong? Hmmmm
Yes, and the Ku Klux Klan says it is just obeying Biblical Laws - does that mean their interpretation is right? Because if the extremists have the sole right to interpret Islam, as it appears you think they do, then why can I not just say the same about the KKK? In fact, 80 years ago, most white Christian ministers in the South would have agreed with me.
The "celebrations," which are confined to Gaza, are a response, not an act of piety. The people are glad someone took a hit at Israel, not because someone "is in heaven." If they were glad at the latter, then explain why they don't cheer when esteemed religious scholars die peacefully.
Infidel or not, think whatever you wish - as long as you look at ALL the facts, and not those that just support what you already believe. This self-appointed "infidel" title that right wing Americans brandish is amusing to Muslims - not insulting as you may wish it to be.
You totally miss my point. It is not that Jihadists claim to act on behalf of Islam - it is that Muslim religious leaders generally do not condemn the Jihadists for claiming such and, in fact, many such "leaders" often fully support the killing. Apparently it is much more serious an Islamic crime to draw an offensive cartoon than to blow up a school full of children.
Furthermore, reaction to the US or Israel does not explain why Jihadists are killing people in Nigeria or Bangladesh or Thailand, or Chad or Turkey or Saudi Arabia or any number of other countries. It doesn't explain why Sunni Jihadists are killing other Muslims in Pakistan. It doesn't explain the quaint custom of "honor killing".
Why do so many Muslims in so many places feel compelled to kill – even to commit suicide to do so? For that matter why do they kill so many fellow Muslims? To say it is in reaction to the US or Israel is clearly asinine – they're killing people all over the world who have nothing whatsoever to do with the US or Israel.
I dont think you're information is correct. Simply because you don't hear about the majority of clerics doesn't mean they're not condemning it. Do you think they're newsworthy? Or is the firebreathing Mullah? The Al-Azhar university (the preeminent Sunni institution in the world) put out a six hundred page refutation and condemnation of terrorism. SIX HUNDRED pages. These refutations are incredibly common. They happen ALL the time, but you don't clearly don't hear about it. But that doesn't mean it's not true. Most of these "clerics" you reference aren't even clerics at all - the clerics who actually went to Islamic universities are by and large against this. People like Bin Laden aren't clerics. Nor is Awlaki.
I think youre condusing all strains of jihadism with anti-Americanism. The Nigeria movement is different from the Pakistan one. In Pakistan, they view the government as a puppet of the US, and causing social instability is a tactic to bring down the government. The Thailand jihadis are motivated by something else. Not all jihadis are motivated by America. I think thats a mistake lots of Americans make.
And honor killings arent uniquely Muslim by any means. They're even more common in Hindu India. Christian Arabs have done it too, so have the Druze. Honor killings are a cultural problem - not a uniquely religious one.
Why do so many Muslims turn to suicide? Well thats the million dollar question isnt it? But if its because of Islam, as so many Americans have suggested, then they are at pains to explain why Muslims haven't been doing this for the past 15 centuries, and why this tactic has only been used since 1982.
Perhaps you'd be shocked to learn this, but it wasn't the Muslims that started this phenomenon. Nor have they been the ones to carry out most suicide bombings in the world. That title goes to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka - part of a Hindu ethnic group. So to corner the tactic as an Islamic one is difficult, considering that it was learned from a predominantly Hindu revolutionary group (that was not motivated by religion either!).
I'm happy to hear some Muslim clerics are condemning terrorism. I would think 1 billion Muslims have the wherewithal to get this message out and into the worlds news reporting.
I don't think you doubt that Jihadists recruit at least in part by appeals based on claims of religious duty or glory - real or not. If it were common knowledge that such claims were wrong and, in fact, condemned such recruiting of terrorists would clearly be significantly more difficult. Perhaps what is needed is not "SIX HUNDRED pages" but a simple "Thou Shalt Not Kill" or some such?
The overwhelming majority of Muslims have heard this message - I don't know what source you're using to say otherwise. Out of a billion Muslims, if there are still some people that use this tactic, that doesn't mean the message isn't out - its that people choose not to listen. Its similar to the Obama birth certificate - you can argue and use evidence all you want, but for some reason, a huge percentage of Americans still think he was born in Kenya.
I think youre overestimating how easily jihadists are recruiting. Do you know in Pakistan, for example, that there were suicide bombings almost every other day in 2008. Then they drastically dropped to the point that they're now rather uncommon - all after a coordinated philosophical attack on terrorism (yes, there are still crazy preachers - but they are the extreme, but potent, minority. And they are preachers, not clerics). And you know what else? It's been estimated that 80-90% of suicide bombings are carried out by 13-16 year olds - to suggest that kids are zealots, and not simply used, is a bit outrageous. Jihadists aren't easily recruiting as you think - even recovered documents from the Bin Laden compound detail Bin Laden's worries that recruitment is much harder now. But yes, out of 1.0-1.4 Billion people, you will still find enough crazies to blow themselves up.
And everyone has been taught that these suicide bombings are wrong. The 600 document was a point by point refutation of every terrorist argument ever made. It was to ensure that terrorists didn't have any loopholes left.
There are those of every religion or culture who would kill. But when religions clearly and unequivocally condemn killing, it is virtually impossible for those who kill to credibly embrace religion as their motivation, justification and shield. It's good to hear that peace loving Muslims do not condone Jihadist terrorists who, by their religious claims, insult and degrade Islam for political, military or other secular expediencies. Obviously Muslims need to reiterate this message constantly and world wide.
"But when religions clearly and unequivocally condemn killing, it is virtually impossible for those who kill to credibly embrace religion as their motivation, justification and shield. It"
I agree with this point, and I would like to point out, that Islamic scholars have clearly and unequivocally condemned this killing nonsense. But religion is a personal issue, and Islam isn't hierarchical like the Catholic church. Some deluded people will still be convinced that they are right, and everyone else is wrong. Nothing can change the mind of someone so deluded.
This reminds me of the onion headline 'Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide?'
we should've just bombed the taliban camps with impunity from the start and not really committed any ground forces. It's not like it's made a difference.
I'm afraid this is the only solution left. At least the liberals won't accuse the West of not trying a more friendly approach when dealing with the talibans.
It is not just one sergeant of the USA who is deranged in Afghanistan. All Americans are deranged in Afghanistan, and the Deranged-In-Chief has only himself to blame for what happened.
Let's recapitulate.
President Jimmy Carter gave the order to attack the republic of Afghanistan on July 3, 1979. For years, at the urging of the CIA, the Pakistani ISI (Inter Service Intelligence) had been intervening in Afghanistan by exciting and funding Muslim minded terrorism.
The pretext for anger was that the Afghan secular government had been in the habit of sending girls to school, a violation of tradition in Afghanistan, they claimed.
The American attack was designed to provoke a Soviet intervention. The Soviets did intervene in the following year, at the request of the Afghan secular government. In consequence of this, and an army of Muslim Fundamentalists of nearly a million paid, and armed by the USA and their agents (Saudi plutocrats), millions of Afghans were killed.
After 9/11, the USA decided to play the Muslim Fundamentalist card again. Instead of setting-up a secular republic in Afghanistan, as existed before, for more than two decades , the Americans insisted to go back to the theocratic Middle Ages. Apparently this is the sort of government Washington is more comfortable with: they peppered the Middle east with them, including Iran (the coup against the parliamentary democracy in Iran in 1953 was set-up by the CIA, after instrumentalizing the Shiites… The same ones who took power for themselves later). So the USA installed a so called "Islamist republic of Afghanistan".
However, it is none of the business of the West, and, especially of the armed forces of the West, to support one side of an Islamist civil war.
Obama understood none of this, he obviously knows very little. A small child, with big toys, listening to the sirens of the military industrial complex. As a good arrogant American, he decided that killing more people would select a band of Islamists the USA would be comfortable with (say as was done in Saudi Arabia since 1945, or in Bahrain).
However, Obama's surge of violence has not worked. Why? Maybe it has to do with the fact all Afghans more or less know, or guess, much of the preceding. Not everybody is as ignorant as the average American voter. It cannot have escaped Afghans that, since 1979, the American intervention has killed millions of Afghans. And, of course, who needs greedy crusaders one side of an Islamist civil war?
After the French discovery of huge commodity resources (plenty of rare earths) in the 1970s, in joint French and Afghan geological exploration, everybody could see that the USA hoped to use Afghanistan as a new Far East to exploit. Having enthroned as head of Afghanistan an ex-employee of Chevron, an American oil company which wanted to build an ambitious pipeline through Afghanistan to export central Asian oil, did not help.
Much of what I say above, Americans do not know. However, many people not victim of pro-Washington propaganda, are familiar with the notions. So Americans, headed by their Ignoramus In Chief, understand nothing, and are just left with pure and simple military defeat to conclude their heartless and selfish mission.
Over-simplistic and misleading.
True, USA and USSR had a rivalry in Afghanistan with Americans favoring big projects and Russians focusing on educating young people and brain-washing them in Soviet universities.
ISI was nowhere in the picture until Bhutto realized that he needed to make friends with Afghanistan after decades of silent animosity and mistrust (Afghanistan was the only country that objected to Pakistan's membership at UNO and supported secessionist movement in Pakistan's North West). Sardar Daoud of Afghanistan visited Pakistan (I remember the event) and the process of normalization of relations started. Within months, however Daud was assasinated and Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took control. This was a prelude to invasion by USSR. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan)
Pakistan's intelligence had by then established contacts with Barhanuddin Rabbani, Ahmad Shah Masood, Gulbudin Hikmatyar, etc... who spent time in Pakistan as exiles and shared a hatred of Communists. They accepted Pakistan's help in waging guerrilla war against communists. CIA was nowhere in picture for a couple of years after Soviet invasion in 1979. Americans did not believe that Soviet army could be resisted. It was indeed ISI under Gen. Akhtar Abdurrehman who showed that Afghans could indeed fight Soviets effectively and repel Communists from Afghanistan.
Hegemonic policies of USA and American thirst for oil is a fact, but history need not be twisted to shed light on it.
Anti-Americanism is in fashion, and while I resent confused and deranged American foreign policy, I must caution against losing balance. Calling Americans ignorant smacks of arrogance. One ought to remember that Americans as a people generally mean well despite what a few of them do in their name.
Over-simplistic and misleading.
True, USA and USSR had a rivalry in Afghanistan with Americans favoring big projects and Russians focusing on educating young people and brain-washing them in Soviet universities.
ISI was nowhere in the picture until Bhutto realized that he needed to make friends with Afghanistan after decades of silent animosity and mistrust (Afghanistan was the only country that objected to Pakistan's membership at UNO and supported secessionist movement in Pakistan's North West). Sardar Daoud of Afghanistan visited Pakistan (I remember the event) and the process of normalization of relations started. Within months, however Daud was assasinated and Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took control. This was a prelude to invasion by USSR. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan)
Pakistan's intelligence had by then established contacts with Barhanuddin Rabbani, Ahmad Shah Masood, Gulbudin Hikmatyar, etc... who spent time in Pakistan as exiles and shared a hatred of Communists. They accepted Pakistan's help in waging guerrilla war against communists. CIA was nowhere in picture for a couple of years after Soviet invasion in 1979. Americans did not believe that Soviet army could be resisted. It was indeed ISI under Gen. Akhtar Abdurrehman who showed that Afghans could indeed fight Soviets effectively and repel Communists from Afghanistan.
Hegemonic policies of USA and American thirst for oil is a fact, but history need not be twisted to shed light on it.
Anti-Americanism is in fashion, and while I resent confused and deranged American foreign policy, I must caution against losing balance. Calling Americans ignorant smacks of arrogance. One ought to remember that Americans as a people generally mean well despite what a few of them do in their name.
Dear Zahidiftikhar: Your generalities do not answer my precise allegations, except for saying something outright false, namely that the CIA did not get involved except around 1982.
I take note that you can reality anti-American, though.
The official attack of the USA on Afghanistan, kept secret at the time, on order of the white House, was on JULY 3, 1979. That you seem ignorant of this fact.
As even American Wikipedia has to recognize: "On July 3, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed an executive order authorizing the CIA to conduct covert propaganda operations against the communist regime.[53]"
Despicable Wikipedia calls that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
Propaganda is thick but has the likes of you goose-stepping behind itself... I guess that is what they call success.
That Americans generally mean well is incompatible with Americans doing nothing at Munich and allying themselves with Hitler in 1939. Or do you think Hitler meant well/ Same for the alliance with Stalin at Yalta, or, a few weeks later, with Ibn Saud. And what of 1953 in Iran? Are you going to tell us that the CIA showed two years later?
It is not anti-Americans to point out that the USA is (mis)led by plutocratic sharks. It is anti-American to claim that the USA does well when it is misled by plutocratic sharks.
Dear Zahidiftikhar: Your generalities do not answer my precise allegations, except for saying something outright false, namely that the CIA did not get involved except around 1982.
I take note that you can reality anti-American, though.
The official attack of the USA on Afghanistan, kept secret at the time, on order of the white House, was on JULY 3, 1979. That you seem ignorant of this fact.
As even American Wikipedia has to recognize: "On July 3, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed an executive order authorizing the CIA to conduct covert propaganda operations against the communist regime.[53]"
Despicable Wikipedia calls that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
Propaganda is thick but has the likes of you goose-stepping behind itself... I guess that is what they call success.
That Americans generally mean well is incompatible with Americans doing nothing at Munich and allying themselves with Hitler in 1939. Or do you think Hitler meant well/ Same for the alliance with Stalin at Yalta, or, a few weeks later, with Ibn Saud. And what of 1953 in Iran? Are you going to tell us that the CIA showed two years later?
It is not anti-Americans to point out that the USA is (mis)led by plutocratic sharks. It is anti-American to claim that the USA does well when it is misled by plutocratic sharks.
I stand by my comments. My reference to CIA activity and help was in context of meaningful help to Afghans that happened two years after the invasion when Afghans demonstrated their resolve sufficiently for all to see. Low key help from CIA via ISI was there, but was not instrumental... Thus my assertion that CIA was not in picture. The Wikipedia article cited by you does vindicate my stand when it notes that "In 1981, following the election of US President Ronald Reagan, aid for the mujahideen through Zia's Pakistan significantly increased".
I grew up in Pakistan during 80s and I remember it all very well. Perhaps my view is partial, but probably better informed than someone who uses Wikipedia as a source of information.
I must take exception to your vitriolic comments about Americans. You fail to distinguish between CIA operations and the (good)will of American people. I have lived in USA, and while I did occasionally come across prejudicial attitudes, I found average Americans to be open-minded and well-meaning. They generally did not know what went on in their name in foreign countries. I hope no one judges countries by the operations of their intelligence agencies alone, like you have done.
To make the world a better place, you have to believe in positive human values. Negative blanket statements do not help anyone. Being from Pakistan I can certainly attest to this.
Dear Zahidiftikhar:
Once again, you reply with generalities about Americans, and, now about "negative blanket statements".
I do NOT believe that it is positive to avoid accusing mass murdering criminals of being negative, under the pretext of a better world. Voltaire addressed that subject nearly three centuries ago, when he made fun of Leibnitz for claiming we were living in the best of all possible worlds. Voltaire believe that "infamy" had to be denounced, and so do I.
The most important point about the war in Afghanistan, which killed millions, is that the USA started it, and then amplified it, using boys they indoctrinated, and armed, by proxy or not, such as Mr. bin Laden (a rich boy they fetched in …Turkey).
I do not fail to distinguish the sharks who lead the USA by the nose and the common sheep who can be observed there, ignorant muzzles deep in the grass, lest they offend somebody by looking up. Germans in the 1930s would no doubt have been found by the sheep to be open minded and well meaning. I seem to never have enough vitriol for that infamy. I do not think there is enough vitriol for Obama's grotesque and insane show in Afghanistan, just a way for him to ingratiate himself with the plutocrats of the military-industrial conspiracy. A boy makes money for himself by killing, in other words: how much more base can one get?
In any case you fail to address my observation that Jimmy Carter, Nobel Prize Laureate of murderous foreign invasion, gave the order to attack Afghanistan July 3, 1979. So, among other much worse things, that creature should be viewed as ultimately responsible of 9/11. And I weigh the concept carefully (and I deeply dislike religious superstitions of the criminal type, as my site amply attests). As it turned out I could well have been with my family in the towers as they collapsed.
Before that Carter's boys were already attacking Afghanistan through encouraging the ISI to do so, at the very least. They were trying to prevent Afghanistan to fall in the French orbit (French geology missions had discovered important mineral wealth in Afghanistan in the 1970s).
I would recommend that you do not believe all what's in American Wikipedia about the USA. As I have personally experienced, paid agents will systematically modify the information there.
After this many occurrences, seems like American soldiers are trained to think that Afghans and Iraqis are lower-life forms. They kill them without consideration and also they take away their personal and cultural (religious) dignity.
We know that soldiers need to be motivated to work at their best, but doing so in these poor ways is a grand shame for a country that "promotes" liberty and freedom for all.
This situation is hopeless.
Somebody should give Karzai a book on the history of the US in Vietnam. Highlight the part about the assassination of Diem. Perhaps he will understand his position a little better.
With serious disconnect between the strategic goals and the ground reality of the ISAF conducted military operations, specially in countryside, on the one hand, and an utter lack of sensitivity being displayed to the native Afghan sentiment by the US/NATO troops on the other, the US led Afghan mission seems to have really crumbled, bringing the situation back to what it was a decade back.
Economist: "But even if Mr Karzai and the Taliban are posturing to some extent, there is no disguising that this has been a very bad few weeks for ISAF. Its commanders like to talk about the importance of "momentum" to keeping the enemy on the back foot. For now, the momentum on a number of fronts is all in the wrong direction."
The wrong direction? That depends from which point of view and in what manner one looks at matters.
But the only momentum there yet is left is that of the war profeteers, Afghan and non-Afghan alike. War always and everywhere means profits for some (one could cynically say: the happy few) and the loss of lives, sanity, a happy future and earthly possessions for many more others.
Who does still honestly believe that once the Americans and their allies turn their back on that dismal place and leave for home – or for another war – the warlords and their political cronies will not take over the whole shop and run the place as merrily as they did in the good old days? They then only will have more sophisticated weapons at their disposal than before and better trained personel to operate it. They will emerge from this turmoil better equipped and more lavishly funded and than they used to be. With scores of battle-hardened and war-experienced men to draw on. From that point of view one can undoubtedly speak of great progress. Only not to our benefit, I fear. Most of the so called humanitarian efforts and civilising missions (hear who's talking about civilisation!) only allow the puppeteers to line their pockets with the fat profits.
The training of the Afghan police force for example mainly serves to enhance and broaden the knowledgeability in the field of handling even more effectively the civilian population and guarantee a steady demand for sophisticated and expensive weaponry. So one could conclude that everyone stands to benefit one way or another. More spicy and fat crumbs to collect than watching poor crumbling. That is to say for some, of course.
Rather than letting the Talibans running wild around freely disseminating more discontents on the invading force even among the puppet forces, the Obama-Cameron dudes could use another surge to stem the tide.
They could also try to stem the tide of the Niagara Falls. Which would actually be easier than what you have in mind.
How many soldiers does it take to control a population of 40 millions who have an AK47 in every household ??
Screw 'em
The good thing is that most of the people in the countryside are so far removed that they aren't even aware of these incidents that loom so large in the conscience of the international media. The Afghans most concerned about these events are in Kabul, the most secure region in the whole country. For this reason, these events do not so much constitute a setback to the counter insurgency strategy as they do constitute a setback to diplomatic efforts with leadership level Taliban and public perception of the mission.
...Nine Afghan children massacred,, and also innocent women and villagers..
REMINDS us of the Vietnam War when American college student demonstrated and chanted ;
HEY...HEY LBJ -- how many children have you killed today ???
And do not forget --- the Norwegians awarded the NOBEL Prize prize to Pres OBAMA --- who is Commander-in-chief of soldiers who kills children -- what a joke..
And how many children have the Taliban and Al Quada killed?
I wonder how many of their children we bombed in the 90s.
9/11 happens every day in Iraq ir Afghanistan....
Obama got Nobel peace prize....
What a sad joke!!!!
How does this make American mistakes any more palatable? Will you judge yourself by the (low) standards of Al-Qaeda? Surely America holds herself to a higher standard.
America has condemned the killer's actions. He will be tried and if found guilty punished.
If he were an Al Qaeda murderer clearly Islamists would label him a hero to be admired and emulated by all true Muslims.
Do you notice the difference?
I notice that you're comparing the professional Army of the USA to that of a terrorist organization. That was my point. You can't simply try to make yourself feel better by saying "well, at least if this were al-qaeda then, ugh, they'd be happy about this!," because no one cares about al-qaeda anymore in the Muslim world. They're yesterdays news. People Power is the new buzz.
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GodfreySPRINGFIELD A Vermont man who killed a Vermont woman and remained free for 14 years while the victims parents urged the Legislature to create the DNA database that was used to identify him as their daughters killer has died in prison.
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Godfrey was convicted in 2008 of the sexual assault and killing of Patricia Scoville, 28, of Stowe and was serving a sentence of life without parole when he died.
Scovilles body was found in a shallow grave at the Moss Glen Falls, a scenic spot outside Stowe village. She had ridden her bicycle there on Oct. 23, 1991. Her body was found several days later. She had been hit in the back of the head and sexually assaulted.
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We always say there is no such thing as closure other than having Patty back, but this is a closure of sorts, said Scoville, who along with his wife continues to speak in favor of DNA database proposals since the Vermont law led to their daughters killer.
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Tommy, close your eyes.
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"That's what Sheev said."
The stations around here have been steady, either in their over-priceness (I'd estimate it averages around $4.35) or rising rates. But I found a grocery station at $4.19, though, today.
"That's what Sheev said."
Stations around here dropped a few cents to $4.23. I filled up the other day, 11 gallons nearly $50, first time I've ever put that much wallet into my tank.
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At home, filled up at $4.19.
"That's what Sheev said."
It seems $4.19 is the best deal around; today's was from Costco (realized I still had money on the cash card), and the line was only 5-pages-read long.
"That's what Sheev said."