Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion
Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute
Thousands of Afghans rallied on Friday against the Israeli attack on Gaza Three thousand protesters in Kabul burned Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush in effigy, chanted death to Israel and death to infidels, and demanded that the 30,000 US troops in Afghanistan depart.
That is what the US really needed at this juncture, was to lose new propaganda points away to the Taliban.
posted by Juan Cole @ 1/03/2009 01:03:00 AM
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Reporting what is happening in GAZA is "propaganda" ??????
OMG !! Even the smart ones are failing us !!!!
If the 2006 attack on Lebanon is anything to go by, then the bombing of Gaza is a joint-venture between Israel and the US.
An Israeli cabinet minister told the Israel inquiry that Israel had to up the killing of civilians to get world public to pressure the US for a cease-fire. That's right, the Israelis wanted to stop but the Americans wouldn't let them.
It seems that people had forgotten that Bush and Rice (birth pangs of a new Middle East)are driven by religious hallucinations, and not in anyway by rational thought.
More than "propaganda points" the US will be losing the lives of more and more enlisted men and women in Afghanistan.
Growing Taliban use of marksmen worries U.S. military
The increased use of marksmen is the latest Taliban shift to asymmetrical warfare and away from confronting U.S. troops in conventional fights, the commanders told McClatchy.
Instead of gathering in company-sized units to take on foreign troops, Taliban forces also are resorting increasingly to explosives and bombings, attacks that require fewer people and pose less risk to themselves, the commanders said. Explosives attacks rose by 33 percent last year, as did deaths of coalition troops, according to the International Security Assistance Force, which leads the coalition forces stationed here.
If the Taliban develop a corps of snipers, it would mark a major shift for U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan. When snipers began appearing in Iraq's once-restive Anbar province in 2005, U.S. troops had a difficult time protecting themselves from attacks and began wearing more armor.
At one point, Iraqi insurgent groups began filming their sniper attacks, and the images of Marines falling to them became a rallying point for the insurgency.
I don't understand why Americans don't seem to get it (maybe more and more are finally getting it) that we are effectively tying our security to Israel. Were it any other country than Israel, we would surely recognize the folly of handing our destiny over to another country.
Tens of thousands in London protest Gaza offensive (The Guardian - Saturday 3 January 2009)
Thousands march over Gaza strikes (BBC News - Saturday 3 January 2009) - contains a video
BF.
Bush's radio address put all the blame on Hamas and its rockets (bizarreely ignoring the rockets from Qassam branch of his friends Fatah.)
The boy-genius must have worked out that the Gazan people will listen to him and immediately launch an uprising to topple Hamas and replace it with America's whore Abbas.
But by putting so much emphasis on the rockets, he and the Israelis are giving weight to the deterrence power of these home-made crackers.
This is the first time since the naqba of 1948 that the Palestinians have acquired an ability to deter, which can only grow and grow over time.
The notion that Afghan patriotic volunteers on any side of this war would need to "develop" a corps of marksmen is alarming. It shows serious lack of familiarity with the country and its rural culture. No development is needed. Vast numbers of Afghans have been superb marksmen for an extremely long time, as the Russians learned the hard way during their occupation.
the israelis can do whatever they want whether it be murder, kidnapping, land sealing, fire bombing schools and when they get criticized, all they have to do is cry holocaust and all their problems go away. this is ridiculous, when will the palestinians ever see justice? when will the homeless, fatherless, son, brother, cousin see justice? if you are a human you've got to do something.
warning graphic images but this is war folks
Banned from youtube.
israel attacks civilian market slaughtering 208 civilians
http://buzznewsroom.com/video/banned-from-youtube-israel-defense-forces-attack-on-gaza-civilian-market/
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