Posted by Sigismund on February 25, 2009, at 15:16:47
In reply to Re: The Swat Valley )Neal, posted by Neal on February 25, 2009, at 2:11:11
I imagine that it is way beyond the army's control?
The political strategy should be to minimise long term sense of threat to people of the Islamic faith. No more invasions of Islamic peoples for starters. At the time in the US there seemed to be this feeling (could be projection) that Afghanistan was not enough butt to kick. This is taking foreign policy down to the level of the schoolyard, which is perhaps where it mostly always is.
All these kids who volunteer have a pan-Islamic identity, and are responding to the threat they see to their brothers and sisters from Gaza to Kabul.
It would be nice if western foreign policy did not have to live with a wreckage from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Seas on its conscience.
President Obama's comment that Iran had a complex history was very encouraging.
[Being on the receiving end of poison gas from Saddam, supplied (one feels obliged to ask) by whom? Maybe he made it himself?
The stuff used in Halabja wasn't though. That was made in (wait for it) Germany.]
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