Bush Allies In War On Terror: We Need A New Approach
Bush Allies In War On Terror: We Need A New Approach
At the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, America’s key international allies in the war on terror have delivered addresses to the general body criticizing the U.S.’s approach. These heads of state observe that the U.S.’s over-emphasis on military solutions to the current problems in the region — at the expense of employing political, diplomatic, and intelligence efforts — has created more insecurity and spawned more extremism. Here are a few examples:
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai:
Military action in Afghanistan alone, therefore, will not deliver our shared goal of eliminating terrorism. We must destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan, dismantle the elaborate networks in the region that recruit, indoctrinate, train, finance, arm and deploy terrorists. We must ensure that political currents and entities in the region are not allowed to use extremism as an instrument of policy.
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf:
While we confront terrorism, our strategy must seek to eliminate this phenomenon comprehensively. We cannot do so unless we understand and address the root causes of terrorism today. How are terrorists able to find willing recruits even among educated youth and democratic societies? The reasons are clear. Across the Muslim world, old conflicts and new campaigns of military intervention have spawned a deep sense of desperation and injustice. Each new battleground involving an Islamic state has served as a new breeding ground for extremists and terrorists. Indiscriminate bombings, civilian casualties, torture, human rights abuses, racial slurs and discrimination only add to the challenge of defeating terrorism.
Jordan’s King Abdullah:
There can be no just global order when aggression and occupation are permitted to take the place of international law. When these occur in a region as strategic as the Middle East the shockwaves run worldwide. Our youth are asking, where is the justice, where is the will of the global community? We must answer them by establishing a lasting peace, based on the international legality we have pledged to uphold.
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September 20th, 2006 at 3:10 pmquite a powerful smackdown of the current administration. too bad they don’t listen or give a shit.
america go bye bye now.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:19 pmas my mother said violence only breeds violence
Time to give america back to the Red Indians as i just found Australia have given back the state of Perth WA to Aborigines
September 20th, 2006 at 3:19 pmCourt ‘restores’ Perth to Aborigines
John Howard, the Australian prime minister, has expressed “considerable concern” after a surprise federal court decision granted Aborigines a title claim over one of Australia’s major cities, Perth.
Bush Allies In War On Terror: We Need A New Approach - LIKE BUSH SHOULD SAY SORRY
September 20th, 2006 at 3:21 pmWhat do these guys know. They just live in the area. george lives in the White House where cheney uses puppy blood to divine the future and where to make war next with his mind controlled zombie, rumsfield.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:25 pmInternational Law?? The US needs to start paying attention to domestic and Constitutional Law.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:26 pmPolling Data Angus Reid
When Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) questions suspects whom they believe to have information about possible terror plots against the United States, do you think they should have to abide by the same Geneva Convention standards that apply to the U.S. military or they should be able to use more forceful interrogation techniques than the Geneva Convention standards that apply to the U.S. military?
Abide by Geneva Convention
September 20th, 2006 at 3:27 pm57%
Able to use forceful techniques
38%
Other / Depends
2%
No opinion
3%
LOOK AT THAT MAGIC 38% AGAIN - I can bet thats the same 38% rich folks who do not have Children in the armed forces -
Two dictators and a Unocal sockpuppet - great allies indeed.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:28 pmThe next step would be for all of these nations to join together and come up with comprehensive solutions that exclude the United States, as long as the United States government is incapable of “playing well with others”.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:29 pmWho is going to listen to those guys? They are all Muslum and by definition islamo fascists and the enemy. TGhe right wingers I know do not distiguish between friend and foe and simply label all muslums as they or them with no exceptions.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:32 pmBush world is about to turn upside down.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:33 pmChavez called Bush the Devil…
http://news.yahoo.com/ s/ nm/ 20060920/ ts_nm/ un_assembly_chavez_dc_2
And I don’t think it was an error in translation.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:34 pmOfftopic, but when is Think Progress going to fix their discussion system??
September 20th, 2006 at 3:35 pmThe age of Empire building needs to be laid to rest along with the neo-cons and their empirical plans.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:37 pmthere is only one way to stop the bush gang…impeachment….or FIRED!
September 20th, 2006 at 3:42 pmThe next step would be for all of these nations to join together and come up with comprehensive solutions that exclude the United States, as long as the United States government is incapable of “playing well with othersâ€.
Comment by lw
Google “north american fortress rumsfeld”
September 20th, 2006 at 3:43 pmThe rulers of these islamic countries make sense. Unfortunately, Cheney and his military-industrial complex are the ones who are rally calling the shots and its in their interests to push military solutions. We need regime change in the US!
September 20th, 2006 at 3:44 pmAmen
September 20th, 2006 at 3:48 pm#17 maybe we’ll get lucky and someone will come and liberate us! Don’t laugh!
Chimpy aint leavin in 2008
September 20th, 2006 at 3:49 pmThere wouldn’t be any reason for ALL oil producing countries to halt sales to the US overnite, this would bring the US to it’s knees within 30 days.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:56 pmIt doesn’t matter what ANYBODY else in the world says or thinks. We have that brilliant mind in the oval office that knows more than any other human being by right of his… connection with a disembodied voice in his head. This outstanding thinker has scuttled peace, diplomacy, the Geneva Conventions, international law, and old fashioned morality because the people who came before him were just too stupid to see the sense of his approach; pre-emptive war settles all matters of foreign policy, cutting taxes for the richest among us settles all matters of domestic policy. Passing the governance of the people to the corporations settles all matters political. If the rest of the world isn’t with him, then they are against him and are obviously terrorists. Burp. The end.
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September 20th, 2006 at 4:17 pmHow are terrorists able to find willing recruits even among educated youth and democratic societies?
Guys right…Tim Mcveigh and the Elohim group are a good example of such extremists.
September 20th, 2006 at 4:24 pm#15; There is another way; REVOLUTION!!!!
September 20th, 2006 at 4:29 pmOh, it matters what they say, but there actions are much more important. The leaders of places like Iran, Syria, Pakistan, etc. can talk all they want about justice and peace. They also need to back that up with action. Many of these leaders are doing the bare minimum at best and absolutely nothing at worst.
It is time these guys stand up and take action within there own countries so we don’t have to do it for them. Besides, having a Muslim leader from within these countries crack down on extremists would look alot better then the US doing it. Then again, places like Iran have a president that is an extremist.
September 20th, 2006 at 4:35 pm#3
The United States government recognizes that the Oneida tribes of New York and Wisconsin own most of metropolitan New York, including all of Manhattan. So what? It’s not like the tribe would go into New York and start kicking people out, nor would they want to.
The key is to all WORK together. We can make pretty gestures all day, but it’s the working together that will make things happen.
September 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pm30 years of half assed military and diplomatic efforts by various administrations have failed. Current efforts by the Bush administration started out bad and are getting worse. Suggestions to find a diplomatic
September 20th, 2006 at 4:48 pmsolution I believe have a snowball’s chance in the middle of the Saudi desert of succeeding. I believe this because the fundamental problems in the Middle East have not been addressed. What are these problems?
They are in the answers to the following questions? Each prefaced by this statement
Then again, places like Iran have a president that is an extremist.
Comment by Roger_Roger — September 20, 2006 @ 4:35 pm
Roger Roger so does the United States.
September 20th, 2006 at 4:52 pm2691 American troops dead now
September 20th, 2006 at 4:54 pmExpect some spin news to happen soon
at 2599 we had a week of crap blowing up 10 transatlantic flight rubbish just to spin the news
30 years of half assed military and diplomatic efforts by various administrations have failed. The Bush administration efforts started out bad and have gotten worse. However relying on diplomatic efforts in the hopes of stabilizing the Middle East has a snowballs’s chance in the middle of the Saudi desert of succeeding unless the following fundamental questions are answered.
The questions are prefaced by this statement: Why after trillions of petro
dollars which have flowed into the Middle East aren’t there
1. Any world class universities
2. Any world class medical centers
3. Anything remotely close to a free library system.
( I read somewhere, but can’t cite the source, that the country of
Spain in one year translates and prints more foreign language
books into Spanish then have EVER been translated into any
Arabic language ).
Answer and solve these questions and there may be hope yet. Until then expect more of ” the same old same old “.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:09 pmJust last week a troll said that things are going great in Iraq and that’s why attacks on US troops have diminished….This just in from Baghdad - Attacks against U.S. troops have increased following a call earlier this month from al-Qaida in Iraq’s leader to target American forces, the top U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:12 pmBAGHDAD, Sept. 7 — Baghdad’s morgue almost tripled its count for violent deaths in Iraq’s capital during August from 550 to 1,536, authorities said Thursday, appearing to erase most of what U.S. generals and Iraqi leaders had touted as evidence of progress in a major security operation to restore order in the capital.
Fascist disinformation and propoganda continues from Herr Rumsfeld’s office.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:20 pmLet’s not forget the issue of Israel and its continued illegal occupation and humiliation of the Palestinians and their territory.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:47 pmAnd what of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians evicted from their land sixty eight years ago?? How many generations of radical Muslims has that spawned?
Good post’s all, but then you all knew that..#21 Solitaire, great job, especialy the Burp…..
Well I will probably piss off some here but just have to throw it out there anyway….Did ya all catch Chevezes coment, about the devil.? Well folk’s he is right, ofcourse most here have known that as I have for over 6 years, no one would listen to me before they voted him in and now they are saying “you were right Sharon”. Sadly I wish I haden’t been correct….Yep! all this bunch are devils and no, some other country is not going to rescue us, stop this war and bring our troop’s home….This job is up to us. Are we up to the task, I believe we are. Will we take care of our business and boot this bunch out, that remains to be seen……Blessings…..Impeach…..Peace
September 20th, 2006 at 6:09 pmIt doesn’t matter if every right wing nut job in concert with the entire world tell Bush something. He would not listen, he’s the King and he does what he wants to.
September 20th, 2006 at 6:18 pmComment by bones — September 20, 2006 @ 3:56 pm
There wouldn’t be any reason for ALL oil producing countries to halt sales to the US overnite, this would bring the US to it’s knees within 30 days.
That would be a gift to W, he could wait for all those folks in those North Eastern Blue Staters to freeze to death and then release the Strategic Oil Reserve to the surviving Red Staters (Utah, I believe - he hopes they all have coal furnaces there.).
September 20th, 2006 at 6:42 pmBush got smacked down royally. He’s an international pariah.
September 20th, 2006 at 6:44 pmHe’s an international pariah.
Bush et al are going to learn that the rest of the 6.5 billion people on the planet can really f@#k up the 300 million here. There aren’t enough bullet, missles, or nukes to win that scenerio.
September 20th, 2006 at 7:36 pm#38 - bones,
September 20th, 2006 at 7:54 pmW could win the war, but lose the aftermath. Life is tenacious and the life forms that could follow radiation sensitive carbon based life forms already exist. It may take a few hundred million years for intelligent life to evolve on another chemical cycle, but, in all likelihood, it will happen. DNA is a stubborn nuclide.
#34 Sharon
September 20th, 2006 at 7:59 pmMany of us do believe that Bush is creating hell on earth - and apparently many other world leaders agree. Chavez said what so many must be thinking - unfortunately the forum he used and the manner in which he expressed himself will be what is talked about rather than the thought behind his words.
I had very serious concerns when uncurious Bush was (s)elected the first time; then when he won the second time based on his effective use of scare tactics on an ill-informed public, it was time to become very worried. He had already gotten us into a war through his fabrications and selective use of intel, and with the second term, he felt he had a “mandate.”
I do believe he is an egomaniac out of touch with reality, an ignorant and thoughtless person, a petulant and peevish adolescent in adult clothing, a stubborn and willful leader - the worst president in our history.
I am not religious, so I don’t believe there is a devil, but many people do and so if the devil is described as I describe Bush, then I agree with what Chavez said, I just wish he would have said it more diplomatically.
Don’t call Musharraf “President” - the guy’s a dictator who came to power in a military coup. It was only when the American power structure decided that he would be useful in the “war on terror” that people ceased referring to him, rightly, as “General Musharraf” and started with this “President” lark.
September 20th, 2006 at 8:25 pmIt may take a few hundred million years for intelligent life to evolve on another chemical cycle, but, in all likelihood, it will happen. DNA is a stubborn nuclide.
Comment by WaltTheMan — September 20, 2006 @ 7:54 pm
Or it may evole republican, torture itself and rule out intelligent life ever developing again.
September 20th, 2006 at 8:35 pmMoral Authority and Goodwill is the New Approach we need.
America cannot hope to make a positive impact on the world without demonstrating consistent moral authority and goodwill to all people.
Bush saying that we are either for him or for the evildoers, then manipulating the United Nations, then mocking France, then bombing Iraq, then producing the Abu Ghrahib evil activities, then producing the Guantanamo Bay evil activities, then trying to get torture approved does not contribute to enduring success.
I would have thought this is obvious.
The leader should be the best person in the country, shouldn’t s/he?
September 20th, 2006 at 10:14 pmdown with the federal reserve!
if you want freedom, free youirself from their NWO.
the federal reserve is as “federal” as federal express, the paper we use is their noose around our lives. the more money they print the less value it has. the fed can cause a global depression whenever they feel like it, we are at the mercy of a private bank.
“money masters”
google it…
watch it….
i am in no way affiliated with these movies, i am just trying to pass on the knowledge.
you may not be able to handle it.
September 21st, 2006 at 1:27 ambush’s handling of world events has been terrible. maybe, though, we are being a little selective. for everyone that thinks the world is a wonderful, clean, friendly place where everyone would just get along if the u.s. would cease to exist, please take you head out of the sand. as many mistakes that we have made; are there problems in the world we did not create. did bush invent war. If they had a world body with everyone except the u.s, would that solve all the world’s problems. you feel guilty about being the world’s only superpower. that’s understandable. but here’s a secret, when some other country is more powerful than we are, guess who you will consider more evil than us?
September 21st, 2006 at 6:38 amFinelly getting around to checking back…..I agree with you Marie. I don’t believe in the devil either, only in the discription of one by the bible belt group.. I don’t phrase my word’s well…..Also while I don’t agree with a lot of foreign leader’s on many issues, it was the word’s of the speech and the fact Chaves was stating what many believe that touched me…If all of us and the world stand up to this fool much will change for the better……Blessings
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