[Update 26 September 2013] Long’s we gonna bombard Syria over chemical weapons, might
as well bomb Turkey too -- it’s right in the neighborhood. Two birds / one stone.
Almost 40 percent of protesters
surveyed by a Turkish medical group complained of continuing repercussions from
their exposure to the tear gas that security forces used to quell last spring’s
antigovernment demonstrations.
Sounds like the government added a little somethin’ special
to that ‘tear gas’ …
[Update 27 Sept] Another reason it was worth waiting, and not just barging in guns blasting, like Rambo, or Maverick John McCain:
[Update 27 Sept] Another reason it was worth waiting, and not just barging in guns blasting, like Rambo, or Maverick John McCain:
Most of Syria’s toxins said to be ‘unweaponized’
U.S. and Russian officials believe
the country’s chemical arsenal could be destroyed more easily than thought,
lowering the risk that the nerve agent stockpile could be hidden away by the
regime or stolen by terrorists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/most-of-syrias-toxins-can-be-destroyed-more-easily-than-officials-initially-thought/2013/09/26/66cd1ca2-26e3-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html
~ Original post
[25 Aug 2013] ~
The vexed question, whether the United States should risk
sending ground troops into Liechtenstein, or simply while away the time
knocking the stuffing out of them with drones, has caused much scratching of
educated heads. But before
we tackle that tough one head-on, herewith a quick run-down of other trouble
spots, that cry out for invasion.
Nigeria
For many years now, the Boko Haram terror group has been
slaughtering Christians -- burning churches, killing children, etc. The government is powerless or
unwilling to stop it.
India
In India, decade after decade,
brides are attacked with acid or scalding water, to extort a larger dowery, or
in some dispute with the mother-in-law.
Meanwhile, rape is epidemic, including gang-rape.
Egypt
After many years of military rule,
a civilian president is finally democratically elected. He is removed in a military coup. The nation teeters near civil
war. This one could get really
ugly.
Mauritania
Slavery is alive and well and
living in Mauretania. An
unbelievable one in five there is a slave:
Intervention? Obviously. Immediately.
[Update 27 Sept 2013] And now this:
Obwohl seit 1981 verboten, ist die Sklaverei in Mauretanien noch immer an der Tagesordnung und de facto straffrei.
http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/international/auslandnachrichten/die-sklaverei-ist-nicht-verschwunden-1.18157241?extcid=Newsletter_27092013_Top-News_am_Morgen
[Update 27 Sept 2013] And now this:
Obwohl seit 1981 verboten, ist die Sklaverei in Mauretanien noch immer an der Tagesordnung und de facto straffrei.
http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/international/auslandnachrichten/die-sklaverei-ist-nicht-verschwunden-1.18157241?extcid=Newsletter_27092013_Top-News_am_Morgen
Papua
For a tiny country, Papua New
Guinea generates a disproportionate number of mind-numbing atrocities:
Spurred by the killing this week of
a young woman accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea, the United Nations
called on the country to address increasing vigilante violence against people
accused of sorcery and to revoke a controversial sorcery law. The United Nations human rights
office in Geneva said it was deeply disturbed by the killing of the woman,
Kepari Leniata, 20, who was stripped, tortured, doused in gasoline and set on
fire on Wednesday as hundreds of spectators watched. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/world/asia/un-calls-on-papua-new-guinea-to-curb-violence-after-burning-death-of-woman.html
And now:
An infamous Papua New Guinea cult
leader known as “Black Jesus” was castrated by an angry mob after being hacked
to death for killing young girls as sacrifices.
Steven Tari, a convicted rapist who
was suspected of cannibalism, was killed in a remote PNG village.
Looks like a job for the Marines.
Yemen
A cottage industry of kidnapping
Westerners has been netting tens of millions of euros for al-Qaeda from
spineless European governments (while pretending not to). The results are
intolerable. Either the problem
must be addressed at the criminal source (Yemen, Mauritania, etc.) or, with a
creatively different strategic approach which sounds more and more attractive
the longer you think about it, at the financial source, by invading France,
Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, and other perpetrators.
North Korea
A basket case; total loss; probably past saving. The latest wrinkle: a large segment of
the population is addicted to crystal meth, of all things. At this point, it might almost be a
kindness to drop a large bomb on the thing. Put them out of their misery.
About their only exports are super-high-quality counterfeit dollars and other contraband. Plus threatening their neighbors with nuclear annihilation should count for something, anyhow.
About their only exports are super-high-quality counterfeit dollars and other contraband. Plus threatening their neighbors with nuclear annihilation should count for something, anyhow.
Burma
There are lots of bad things to say
about Burma, but we’ll let you go hunt them up yourselves.
So there you have it; one could go on. As for Liechtenstein, the main plus for intervention there is that, militarily, compared to the other countries, it would be a piece of cake.
*
Für psychologisch
tiefgreifende Krimis,
in pikanter
amerikanischer Mundart,
und christlich gesinnt,
klicken Sie bitte
hier:
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[Footnote] We
almost forgot Syria. For some
years now, it has been in a multi-sided civil war, with increasingly
significant foreign intervention; at present, the major players are al-Qaeda
and Iran. Its President,
beleaguered, is striking back with everything he has. Although there are many factions, the principal line
of cleavage is: Sunnis on the one
side, spearheaded by al-Qaeda-affiliated groups (ISI, ANF); versus Alawites and Christians, backed
by Iran. John McCain’s
bright idea is that the U.S. should wade into the morass on the side of
al-Qaeda against the Christians. -- Oh, wait …
*
Si cela vous parle,
savourez la série
noire
en argot authentique
d’Amérique :
Weiteres zum Thema:
Gar nicht zum Thema aber doch unterhaltsam,
an diesem sonnigen Sonntagsmorgen:
Der Schweiz zugewidmet:
A consulter aussi:
notre compte-rendu de la glorieuse intervention de l’Islande en Azawad:
~
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Difficult though it
may be to believe,
we have written a
story
even more incredible
than international politics:
Murphy and the Magic Pawnshop
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[This just in]
A reader comments:
I found one reason for
intervention: they are really Lichtenstan
-- yes, one of those democracy-hating "stan" countries.
We reply:
Yesss !!!! For too long that rogue mountain nation
has thumbed its nose at the world!!!
Lichtenstan delenda est !!!!
[Flash update] A motive-analysis of the interventionist faction:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/08/intervention-in-syria-cui-prodest.html
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