Will bin Laden's Death Justify More War?
Friday, May 06, 2011 – by Staff Report
Osama bin Laden killing: Victory in the war on terror is now within the West's reach After Osama bin Laden's death, we can finally destroy al-Qaeda and finish the job in Afghanistan. – UK Telegraph/ Con Coughlin
Dominant Social Theme: Use this opportunity to kill a lot more people.
Free-Market Analysis: The Telegraph's truculent war columnist Con Coughlin is in full cry post bin Laden. Our point regarding the al-Qaeda chief's demise, made yesterday, was that the West had designed it in order to quit Afghanistan " with honor." The probably false death of bin Laden was designed to smooth the way for this event. But as certain feedbackers pointed out yesterday, and as Coughlin now points out, there are other possibilities. According to Coughlin, bin Laden's death provides the West with a new opportunity to win its various wars.
For Coughlin and others who think like him, the peace dividend is always to be spent pursuing further war. He admits in this article (excerpted above) that the common wisdom is that bin Laden's death will "speed up" the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. He admits that British Prime Minister David Cameron recently indicated that a rapid draw down was more likely post bin Laden than before. There are other examples as well.
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Will bin Laden's Death Justify More War?
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And so it begins.......
or did it ever not stop?
or did it ever not stop?
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... 1&iref=BN1(CNN) -- Al Qaeda released a statement on jihadist forums Friday confirming the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist websites.
The development comes days after U.S. troops killed bin Laden in a raid on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
The statement, translated by SITE, lauded the late militant, threatened to take action against the United States, and urged Pakistanis to "rise up and revolt."
Bin Laden's death will serve as a "curse that chases the Americans and their agents, and goes after them inside and outside their countries," the message said.
"Soon -- with help from Allah -- their happiness will turn into sorrow, and their blood will be mixed with their tears," it said.
The statement said al Qaeda will "continue on the path of jihad, the path walked upon by our leaders, and on top of them" bin Laden "without hesitation or reluctance.
"We will not deviate from that or change until Allah judges between us and between our enemy with truth. Indeed, He is the best of all judges. Nothing will harm us after that, until we see either victory and success and conquest and empowerment, or we die trying."
It said that Americans "will never enjoy security until our people in Palestine enjoy it."
"The soldiers of Islam, groups and individuals, will continue planning without tiredness or boredom, and without despair or surrender, and without weakness or stagnancy, until they cause the disaster that makes children look like the elderly!"
It urged Pakistanis "to cleanse this shame that has been attached to them by a clique of traitors and thieves" and "from the filth of the Americans who spread corruption in it."
Bin Laden and other militants used the Internet to post messages to their followers before and after al Qaeda's September, 11, 2001 attack on the United States.
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The best hope of ending this 'terror war' resides in the popular revolutions taking place all over the Arab world and also in Iran. The cause is the same but the method is very different. To overcome the pernicious influence of the empire the regimes that serve it must be overthrown.
"If you don't think to good, don't think too much." Yogi
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lkwalker wrote:The best hope of ending this 'terror war' resides in the popular revolutions taking place all over the Arab world and also in Iran. The cause is the same but the method is very different. To overcome the pernicious influence of the empire the regimes that serve it must be overthrown.
No kidding....but do we help them....or stay out?
Lose -Lose
Get it?
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Get out..... MYOB...... find alternate energy sources...... keep jobs in North America instead of outsourcing..... take care of your own.
Easy!
Easy!
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Pam wrote:Get out..... MYOB...... find alternate energy sources...... keep jobs in North America instead of outsourcing..... take care of your own.
Easy!
So it is easy for you to watch oppressive regimes slaughter countless innocents?
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Mur wrote:lkwalker wrote:The best hope of ending this 'terror war' resides in the popular revolutions taking place all over the Arab world and also in Iran. The cause is the same but the method is very different. To overcome the pernicious influence of the empire the regimes that serve it must be overthrown.
No kidding....but do we help them....or stay out?
Lose -Lose
Get it?
That's a difficult call.. Any 'help' that we offer will of necessity be self serving. On the other hand a modicum of intervention in order to prevent crimes against humanity (as in Libya) should be given if requested by the revolutionaries.Mur wrote:lkwalker wrote:The best hope of ending this 'terror war' resides in the popular revolutions taking place all over the Arab world and also in Iran. The cause is the same but the method is very different. To overcome the pernicious influence of the empire the regimes that serve it must be overthrown.
No kidding....but do we help them....or stay out?
Lose -Lose
Get it?
"If you don't think to good, don't think too much." Yogi
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That's my point. Help should be proffered when requested.So it is easy for you to watch oppressive regimes slaughter countless innocents?
"If you don't think to good, don't think too much." Yogi
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No, and it is not easy for me to watch serial killers and child molestors and ballistic crazy people go off and shoot up people in schools, or families living in poverty or...... I could go on.Mur wrote:Pam wrote:Get out..... MYOB...... find alternate energy sources...... keep jobs in North America instead of outsourcing..... take care of your own.
Easy!
So it is easy for you to watch oppressive regimes slaughter countless innocents?
Some things are sadly are out of my control.
There are people there that can stand up and fight their own fights.
We have a lot of fights we need to deal with here first.
Hence why I say "take care of your own".
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Pam wrote:
Hence why I say "take care of your own".
Isn't that the essense of selfishness?