Terrorism: Why they want to kill us
Huffington Post
by Doug Bandow
07/01/10
No doubt, some terrorists hope to reestablish the caliphate or knock Madonna off of television. But most anti-American terrorists appear to be motivated by something much more mundane: responding to U.S. government depredations in their own nations and other Muslim lands. Unfortunately, the Obama administration appears to be as clueless as its predecessor. After Shahzad’s arrest U.S. officials raced to Islamabad to urge Pakistan to do more to stop terrorism. But Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said simply: ‘This is a blowback. This is a reaction. And you could expect that’...
http://tinyurl.com/25x7erl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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And It's One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?
Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "It was 1967, and the world was on fire. War at home and abroad demonstrably began to rear its head, and long-held American values of moral exceptionalism and widespread prosperity were rapidly destabilizing. A Democratic president escalated warfare half a world away, and the generals offered red-herring rationales about resource control and the necessity of finishing the job in order to defeat evil."
http://www.truth-out.org/and-its-one-two-three-what-are-we-fighting-for60885
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Bandow
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Randall+Amster
by Doug Bandow
07/01/10
No doubt, some terrorists hope to reestablish the caliphate or knock Madonna off of television. But most anti-American terrorists appear to be motivated by something much more mundane: responding to U.S. government depredations in their own nations and other Muslim lands. Unfortunately, the Obama administration appears to be as clueless as its predecessor. After Shahzad’s arrest U.S. officials raced to Islamabad to urge Pakistan to do more to stop terrorism. But Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said simply: ‘This is a blowback. This is a reaction. And you could expect that’...
http://tinyurl.com/25x7erl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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And It's One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?
Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "It was 1967, and the world was on fire. War at home and abroad demonstrably began to rear its head, and long-held American values of moral exceptionalism and widespread prosperity were rapidly destabilizing. A Democratic president escalated warfare half a world away, and the generals offered red-herring rationales about resource control and the necessity of finishing the job in order to defeat evil."
http://www.truth-out.org/and-its-one-two-three-what-are-we-fighting-for60885
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Doug+Bandow
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Randall+Amster
rudkla - 2. Jul, 10:11
