Thank you, Karma. Islam was provided with what is acknowledged as the greatest military invention that the world has ever come up with. They used it wisely.
Gaddafi has really learned the ropes. He came close to being whacked. At that level there are some rules for assassination. Basically You assassinate them not us at our level. In the past I found that upsetting. If assassinations were allowed to go to leaders every leader would be a target. Now this can only be done under certain conditions. Gaddafi sent a strong message with where he put his ceremonial tent when he spoke in the UN. (Hard to explain.) This was in conjunction with Russias Arctic Sea statement. The loud screams that continue over Iran sound, and are, more and more in desperation. I always check the remarks on news sites after a story when possible. On some they can be ordered into the most recommended. You should have seen the reaction to drug killings in Mexico. Both the US and Mexican governments are blamed and most just said that the only choice is to legalize all of it. Most every reply, (about 2/3rds), used Prohibition in the first sentence. You might think I am popping around but trying to get to the spread of attitude change. When I wrote the Aqaba is in Dallas piece here I should have prefaced it with more basic island nations vs. land nations or allies vs. axis info. Axis is an old term that was popularized by Bonito Mussolini. It is a line from Murmansk on top of Russia to Cape Town, South Africa. This is the land axis that has been pummeled by the sea traders for the last 5 to 6 hundred years. They do have the resources. What was talked about in Pakistan was worrisome because it made such sense. You can whack those who are problems under certain conditions. But you cant alter geography. (Trades were made. When is the last time you were in a US motel not run by Pakistanies?) (I started Bhuttos daughters book but never finished it.) This is what is again emerging. And it is for real: http://www.worldbulletin.net/video.php?id=1 It keeps snapping back to the man with the hammer. The greatest military invention of all time is the stirrup. Im better at poetry: I With Kubla Khan Did Beat I with Kubla Khan did beat White war hoof on the victim street. And shared with every victor seat The splendor of the foes retreat. Twas I who fought so close to you, Who stayed the charge Fu Tut Manchu. Who with Czar-son Petrofski Skevar Had boasted multitudes of scar. And with the Shah-son Balbul Amir Had charged the steppes with bow and spear. Who with Tartar and Cossack and Hindu and Turk Under stirrup and pack did your dirtiest work. More, I from Kubla Khan had fled White war hoofs that had turned to red. And with retreating bleeding dread Had stood beside my master dead. Did you think of me as your bearer of Mars? As with head in the saddle you looked at the stars? While you slept so close to earth, This I heard from Heavens mirth: Far above his lovers wail Earths poet god beyond the pale, Dreams sea-cousins in fighting ships Whose right hand stands upon the sea, And leaves his left, with our hoof on ground: Land nations as a fort surround, To war by war each beat to pound. But this I heard alone in clouds As sleep you lay in dreamy shrouds. As sleep you lay on saddle earth Whose picket line of sentry worth, Of steaming nostrils, silvered girth, Has framed the stars that gave you birth. And who rode through all your wars? Who cavalries Calvarys troubled sores? And so destined to your course Has breathed so noble as I, your horse? > > nice thread. just wanted to add a bit of buried history here. in 1974, > pakistan's zulfikar ali bhutto convened an islamic summit in > islamabad. co-chaired with gaddafi. attended by all leaders of islamic > nations, from saudi royalty to uganda's idi amin. > > gaddafi's and bhutto's proposal was simple and brilliant. the islamic > world at the time held a population of 800 million and controlled vast > resources. united they could form a third major power in a world carved > up by the west and the soviets. > > three years later bhutto was toppled and five years later he was hanged. > not long after, gaddafi had sanctions imposed on his country over the > lockerbie affair and he survived a bombing raid.
