'MCA go home' vs 'Where was DAP 13 years ago?' at Jonker Walk
What?! Gan qualified his being there as a survey, not to protest? Let alone to lead the protest? Did Mr. Gan Tian Loo realize that the MCA protest carries more weight than DAP protest many times
over. The state government, being UMNO-led government, considers the DAP as the opposition working hand-in-hand with PAS and PKR to oust UMNO from power, rescinding the directive on the request
from DAP leaders will make the party even more popular. I thought, at first, here come the MCA, finally to do what it's supposed to do. Then the expected happened. He got cold feet. The
reporter who covered the protest reported Gan was suddenly cautious . He was like ..."I'm here to lend my support to..the .. no, wait! I am not here to support the traders - but just to do a quick
survey! But I am glad to be standing here with the protesters but reporters, please put it down in black and white I am not, I repeat, am not here as part of the protest. This is the reason the MCA
was shunned, I mean has been shunned by the Chinese. They do not represent the Chinese anymore. They cannot get things done anymore unlike in the old days. Gan admitted his meeting with the chief
minister was fruitless, but would keep trying. Keep trying for what? He should stop embarrassing the MCA and reducing its credibility further by continuing to beg despite being rebuffed earlier.
Again, this proved that the Malaysian Chinese Association has really completely lost its usefulness. If a small matter like Jonker Walk closure was beyond its power then, that 's it.
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This is what I wrote on MSNBC newsvine discussion today
Should NATO be disbanded?
NATO was founded in 1949 - with the aim to forestall the Warsaw Pact rival organization.
After the demise of the USSR and, by extention the Warsaw Pact, it was presumed NATO had lost the reason to continue to exist and therefor should disband. But it didn't.
It's not hard to see why? Though the coldwar was history, the resurgent Russia under Putin had found an appetite to to relive its former glory.
With much of its nuclear arsenal and intercontinental ballaistic missle systems, not mention its research and development for advanced weapons, largely intact, NATO planners and its members decided NATO was still needed. When its rival warsaw Pact closed shop, NATO didn't follow suit; so that's how or why it continues to function, regardless.
It has since broadened its roles from containment of Warsaw Pact forces to being used as the US tool to project American power far and wide.
With spending of more than 70% of the world's total arms and defense spending, NATO is a formidable defense pact.
It has the most modern devastating nuclear weapons; it's led by the US, the world's sole super power, which ironically alone can take on any enemy, big or small, nuclear-armed or not, and wins; it has and can manufacture state-of-the-art fighters and bombers (which it deployed with devastating effect in Libyan air campaign; in short, NATO, in a conventional wars, is unstoppable.
It has in fact become so powerful that it has commanded to the happy people of internet protocol that its name be treated with case sensitiveness; you have to write NATO (all capital letters) or the browsers will correct it for you, see!
But like everything or everyone else, it has its underbelly.Its weakness spot is when fighting terrorism; it can be bombarded or shot at from all sides but cannot fight back effectively.It cannot employ air superiority; it cannot carpet bomb its enemies who mostly lurk among the local population without hitting innocent civilians.
If NATO makes a mistake which is inevitable, like mistakenly killing the 24 Pakistani soldiers, there are prices to pay.
It's still early to speculate what will happen as a result of loss of lives suffered by Pakistan, but if past events are any indications, NATO and the US, especially the US, will have to pay a heavy price.
When a CIA agent shot dead three Pakistanis a few months ago, apparently in self-defense as he's being robbed (or felt being robbed), the whole country took to the streets to protest. The Pakistan government lost no time in closing its borders with Afghanistan, barring hundreds, if not thousands, of trucks transporting supplies to the warfronts in Afghanistan from passing through them.
No amount of apologies could move the Pakistani leaders to reconsider, and that was after only two deaths, not 24!
And just when it has just wound down its air campaign against Libya and celebrated, after successfully disposing of Col. Qaddafi - thereby stamping its mark as the military organization that could subdue any leader or country that dares to challenge it, this had to happen! It forgot one thing, though. Afghanistan or Pakistan is no Libya. The terrain are different. In the desert with sparse population bombing or strafing could be effective; in the porous borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan region, with forest cover, it's different. You can hit with airstrikes but you don't know whom you're hitting.
Despite the advancement in guidance systems, accidents can still happen resulting in loss of lives.
The war against the Taliban must go on; but we still need the Pakistanis to be on our side.
This is the dilemma for NATO.
It had unfortunately brought them down to earth after heady days of easy victory over Libya. It dawned on them that they are not the master of the universe after all.
While they are not yet staring at defeat at the hands of the Talibans, they should face heavens in silent prayer in celestial thanks that they are not, yet. But this fight will sap them, weaken them until they accept defeat. For noone, noone, has ever won in a fight with the Mujahideens. In fact this is the only place where the British got routed. The only blot on the proud name of the colonial GB which ruled most of the world. The Soviet Union - though at its height - was dealth with the same way: routed!
Despite its might and led by the world's only super power with unique capibilities (according to President Obama), NATO could be next - if not by the sheer ferociousness of the Mujahideens, then perhaps by their own weariness.
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