http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/presidents_in_the_age_of_twitter
“The Pakistani generals are not worth much as reliable allies, but they’re all we’ve got. Like all rented allies, they’re sometimes willing to help a little so long as the United States continues to supply them with weapons—just in case they get into a war of their own. There’s no morality among nations, as Newt the Historian knows well. Chipping at the margins of a threat is enough to keep any president too busy to Twitter. Only someone divorced from reality would expect more than that.”
Thomas Jefferson collected old books and French wines, Warren Harding collected poker buddies, and FDR collected stamps. Harry S Truman collected sheet music and played the piano.
THANKS TO YISRAEL MEDAD FROM SHILOH, ISRAEL
http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2011/11/28/33337/minnesota_must_divest_from_israel_bonds_group_to_sue_state
NOT A WHISPER ABOUT THE NUMBER OF NATURALIZED SOMALIS IN MINNESOTA THAT HAVE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE THE JIHADIS…NOR A WORD ABOUT THE RADICAL AMERICAN HATING IMAMS THERE…RSK
The Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign plans to sue the state for its investments in illegal projects that violate the human rights of Palestinians.
Since 1967 more than 500,000 Israeli Jewish settlers have moved into the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, inviolation of Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution Number 446 in 1976 declaring the settlements and settlers illegal. They were also declared illegal by the International Court of Justice, and by the United States State Department [PDF].
In order to settle that many people in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, infrastructure must be built. Many of the settlers live in the West Bank and work inside of Israel, and roads were built to facilitate their commute. Electricity was brought out to the settlements; water distribution networks were constructed; and the more than 430-mile apartheid wall was constructed, all of which is equally as illegal as the transferred civilian population itself. All of the land on which these construction projects were built is confiscated Palestinian property, and in the projects have left thousands of Palestinians homeless and destitute, devastated the Palestinian economy and violated Palestinians’ human rights.
The settlements, their infrastructure, and the separation wall are paid for through Israel’s Ministry of Finance, which sells Government of Israel Bonds to finance these projects. Israel Bonds can be purchased by individuals, organizations and states. Currently 22 U.S. states and the District of Columbia invest in these Israel Bonds, often as part of state pension and retirement funds. Minnesota currently holds over $18 million in Israel Bonds, an amount that is small compared to the overall state investments, but is a significant amount given that the money isused for illegal projects.
Holding investments in illegal projects that violate human rights and international law exposes Minnesota taxpayers to potential lawsuits from aggrieved individuals under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), an 18th century law allowing foreigners the ability to sue entities in the United States for aiding and abetting in the commission of crimes against those individuals.
Illegal under Minnesota law
In addition to the international law violations, Minnesota state statutes governing the activities of the State Board of Investment (SBI) prohibit investment in the government bonds of any foreign country, with the exception of Canada. So, the purchase of Israel Bonds is illegal under Minnesota law. The SBI is madeup of Gov. Mark Dayton, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, Attorney General Lori Swanson and State Auditor Rebecca Otto and is the agency charged with managing investments for state retirees. The Minnesota Legislature passed divestment bills prohibiting investments in companies doing business in Iran and Sudan, but in neither case did the Legislature prohibit investing in the government bonds of those countries. This was unnecessary since existing legislation already prohibited it.
Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign (MN BBC) is an organization of volunteers dedicated to human rights and justice who are urging the state to divest from Israel Bonds. Members spent many months meeting with both state legislators and SBI personnel to urge them to divest from the Israel Bonds. Even after it was pointed out to the SBI that the investments were illegal, the SBI refused to divest.
UN Resolution 181 – The Partition PlanA “Green Light” for Jewish Statehood – A ‘Dead’ Blueprint for Peace For the article including notes and map, please go to: http://www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/10/Resolution-181.pdf In 1947 the British put the future of western Palestine into the hands of the United Nations, the successor organization to the League of Nations […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1964/McChrystal-Bin-Ladens-Death-Shouldnt-Be-Celebrated.aspx
THIS IS WHY WE HAVE LOST IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ….AND YOU CAN PIN THIS ONE ON BUSH WHO APPOINTED DAVID OF PETRAEUSTAN AND ENDORSED THE COIN DOCTRINE OF LOSERS….AS ANDREW BOSTOM SAYS ”
” The preening, pseudo-moralistic voice of amoral, post-modern COIN defeatism, in its own words.”
McChrystal: Bin Laden’s Death Shouldn’t Be Celebrated
Written by:Diana West 11/28/2011 8:10:00 PM
Missed this little gem of last May about Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s evening with the International Relations Society at Oxford.
From a write-up in The Express Tribune by Mohammed Ali Rai, a Rhodes Scholar and one of the hosts of the event:
Soon after this the topic changed to what everyone had come to hear about — the general’s perspective on the Bin Laden episode. Instead of bashing Pakistan, McChrystal showed his mettle and worth — he argued that the US has made a lot of mistakes with Pakistan, and Pakistan has also made an equal number of mistakes, and there is no point in sticking to these mistakes. He continued that Bin Laden is dead and that should be the end of the story. He rationally argued that the only way out is to look forward to the future, and build up on a solid and trustworthy partnership that is beneficial for both states.
To my surprise, the general also brought up the issue of Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty and how that had been violated in the Bin Laden mission. The general even went on to say that the news of Bin Laden’s death was not something that should be celebrated, as there is no happiness and satisfaction in the loss of human life.
For real?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MK29Df03.html ——————————————————————————– Blazing Saddles in Pakistan By Spengler In Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles, a welcoming committee for a new sheriff turns into a lynch mob when it discovers the man is black. He points his gun at his own temple and says, ”One step closer and the [N-word] gets it!” The townspeople back […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/11/28/newt-gingrich-grownup Of the Republican Eight, he is best prepared to take a 3 a.m. call to the White House. Hillary Clinton’s “3 a.m. phone call” ad could have been a devastating attack on Obama’s competence and experience. It failed to have an impact on voters because it ran four years too soon. Against the backdrop […]
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18872.xml I had an unsettling flashback last week listening to two of the Republican presidential candidates talk about foreign policy. Representative Ron Paul of Texas and former Utah Governor Jon Hunstman espoused isolationist stances that called to mind one of the most preposterous public policy debates in decades. As I recall, the occasion was a […]
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“And what of our Politicians who, for the most part have been sitting idly by while we have watched incident after incident unfold in which American Servicemen have been killed or brutalized? How many times must we write these stories or call them demanding they take action before we declare the entire system irrevocably corrupted and their lack of action, criminal? How many more Servicemen need to suffer – not the pains of war but wounds inflicted by a flawed strategy born of a stubborn adherence to a faulty understanding of the enemy born out of politically correct tripe?”
It has taken two years and two months for an investigation to determine that the dereliction of duty on the part of at least one Officer led to the deaths of four Service members at Ganjgal. For those not familiar with the story, this is the same engagement that yielded a Congressional Medal of Honor for Corporal Dakota Meyers and is likely to see another member of the ill-fated mission honored with yet another.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10910/pub_detail.asp Thomas Jefferson outlined the philosophy of our nation’s government in the Declaration of Independence with the words, “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving […]
