i think i fucking hate everything.

* "As John Burns of the New York Times notes, US President George
W. Bush has missed an important opportunity to reach out to the
Muslims of Indonesia. The Bush administration at first pledged a
paltry $15 million, a mysteriously chintzy response to what was
obviously an enormous calamity. Bush himself remained on vacation,
and now has reluctantly agreed to a meeting of the National
Security Council by video conference. If Bush were a statesman, he
would have flown to Jakarta and announced his solidarity with the
Muslims of Indonesia (which has suffered at least 40,000 dead and
rising).

Indeed, the worst-hit area of Indonesia is Aceh, the center of a
Muslim separatist movement, and a gesture to Aceh from the US at
this moment might have meant a lot in US-Muslim public relations.
Bin Laden and Zawahiri sniffed around Aceh in hopes of recruiting
operatives there, being experts in fishing in troubled waters.
Doesn't the US want to outflank al-Qaeda? As it is, the president
of the United States is invisible and on vacation (unlike several
European heads of state), and could think of nothing better to do
than announce a paltry pledge. As Burns rightly notes, the rest of
the world treated the US much better than this after September 11."
http://www.juancole.com/2004/12/tsunami-toll-nearly-70000-and-rising.html


* juancole: "If Bin Laden had been politically clever, he would
have phrased his message in the terms of Iraqi nationalism. By
siding with the narrowest sliver of Sunni extremists, he denied
himself any real impact. By adopting Zarqawi, who has killed many
more Iraqis (especially Shiites) than he has Americans, he simply
tarnishes his own image inside Iraq.

It appears that Bin Laden is so weak now that he is forced to play
to his own base, of Saudi and Salafi jihadists, some of whom are
volunteer guerrillas in Iraq. They are the only ones in Iraq who
would be happy to see this particular videotape.

The only way Bin Laden could profit from this intervention in the
least would be if a civil war between Sunni Arabs and Shiites
really did break out in Iraq, and if the beleaguered Sunnis went
over to al-Qaeda in large numbers. Since the Sunni Arabs are a
minority of 20%, they and he would still lose, but for Bin Laden,
who is now a refugee and without any strong political base outside
a few provinces of Saudi Arabia, to pick up 5 million Iraqi Sunni
Arabs, would be a major political victory. His recent videotape
calling for the overthrow of the Saudi government suggests that he
might hope to use any increased popularity in Anbar province as a
springboard for renewed attacks on Saudi Arabia, especially on its
petroleum sector.

It is a desperate, crackpot hope. The narrow, sectarian and
politically unskilfull character of this speech is the most hopeful
sign I have seen in some time that al-Qaeda is a doomed political
force, a mere Baader-Meinhof Gang or Red Army Faction with greater
geographical reach." either that, or its not obl.
http://www.juancole.com/2004/12/bin-laden-votes-in-iraq-and-shoots.html

* " The American soldiers he saw "treat everybody as the enemy," he said, adding that they can be very abusive and violent. "If you're a boy and see soldiers beating the shit out of your father, how can you not hate the Americans?"" if u r a man, and your father thinks americans are good, how can u still not hate the jihadmin? seriously, i fucking hate these people. seriously, id do whatever is humanly possible to stop them. they are so fucking outta control. if i thought for a second that id be more useful dead than alive, id die in a blink of an eye - in whatever manner made the most impact. id tear myself apart limb by limb, dousing myself in cocalcola while eating a mix of scorpions and piranas whilst dealing with multiple exgirlfriends at the inauguration if there was the slightest chance itd make the slightest difference. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17633

* one cool thing bout the quake is that it reminds us that nature and time are largely beyond our comprehension. so when all hope seems lost, its remotely possible that meteors will simultaneously hit each member of the theyresofuckingbadmin. armourgeddon cometh. i wish white people werent so fucking rich - then theyd die like stoopid darkies.

* does dog hate the srilankans/indians/thais/somalians/oops-i-mean-darkies? praps thats why the 'tourist' (whitey) deathcount seems so low.

* where the fuck did the world i thought i knew disappear to in the last few years? and yet i thought i was fucking postmodern. obviously not sufficiently postmodern... no wonder everyone rails against postmodernism - it fucking hurts. stupid dog. i wish everyone realised that jc was a darkie. i think i fucking hate everything.


________________________________________________________________________________
war makes me mad, sad, bad.
wotisitgood4.blogspot.com