'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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The following stories may fire your imagination, pique your interest. Some say 1MDB is Malaysia's Sovereign Wealth fund; to others they asked what wealth fund when its total capitalization is just One million ringgit? But, then again, if you think you can look down on the pet idea of the Malaysian prime minister, think again. His idea has the potential of turning the now world famous - or shall we say, infamous - 1Malaysia Development Berhad into a giant corporation you can ever imagine - even bigger than Bill Gate's Microsoft! At least, it could be, if the original course is stayed. It was supposed to inspire Malaysians to think big besides advance growth, according to its slogans screaming out of giant bill boards throughout the country. 'Backed' by the finance ministry who owns it - which means money will never be the problem - it can only succeed. But..it didn't. It failed! That's why it may have piqued many people's curiosity. How can a company flush with cash and can borrow any amount (billions) anytime could fail? Well, this may be in line with your thinking. People have seen since its inception - I mean after its name was changed in 1999 from Trengganu Investment Authority (TIA) to the present - it hasn't done any business! I have used present tense deliberately. It hasn't done any business yet. I mean if you are in business you need to make profit or find ways to make profit. Or close shop. Oh, I had heard about their filings of tax returns and hiring of a couple of internationally known auditors to sign off on their balance sheets; but these concerned only the company's borrowings and interests to be paid. Two massive bonds were issued to the tune of $7 billions. To buy up power plants. Again I want to say if you are in business to make money even investing in independent Power Plants, it should be done with the view to making a profit. The decision may be long term or short term, it doesn't matter, it has to make money, or no deal. May be they have done the right thing. Maybe luck was not on their side. Still, the amount is staggering. I didn't know having or managing so much money can be a problem! But many - especially the Malays - have not given up hope yet. Yes, may be the durians are just ripening; may be they need time and may fall soon!
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Malaysia is supposed to be on its way to becoming a developed nation, by the year 2020. Will she make it (in less than five years -tick-tuck, tick-tuck)? There is no doubt the year 2020 is coming whether the country is ready or not, and if that will be the only requirement then Malaysia will attain that developed nation status on schedule. There is a question, though, Will Malaysia, or Malaysians, for that matter, be ready for that status as far as their affluence, quality of life's concern? Currently Malaysia's GNI per capita stood at US$10060. According to the World Bank high income economies are those with GNI per capita of US$12,745. And until Malaysians earn much more to be there, the developed nation status may not be achieved even by the year 2020. The futility of declaring a country a high income country when it's not, achieves nothing. May be even counter-productive; it lulls the country into false sense of success and premature celebration. Don't forget China reportedly overtook Japan as the world's second largest economy, but in actual fact China's citizens' ca pita income is a fraction of the incomes of the Japanese who earn $37,000. Chinese incomes range from $13,000. China's gross domestic product, taken as a whole, may beat Japan's, but in term of quality of life, and GNI per capita income, the criteria for a developed nation status, China still has a lot of catching up to do. That's why China still qualifies as recipient of Japan's economic aid meant for developing countries. Comparing with the Chinese per capita domestic product, Malaysia is even worse off. Unless the government bucks up and rushes to create more wealth for its citizens, the Vision 2020 dream may remain just that ..a dream.
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Jun 29, 2011
What's Best In Life? Deterrent!
In life the best policy is to deter. You should act tough, mean and dangerous. That's all you need to lead a happy and trouble-free life. Show people you're a force to be reckoned with; it doesn't pay to mess with you.
How, you may ask? Well, if you're big (not fat) it certainly helps to certain extent. Being small (not too small, of course) can still deter; but to be very deterring one needs to take up martial arts (Thai boxing, would be ideal, the best). Those with MuayThai skill would be very confident and fearless. They seldom have to fight; they just deter.
Due to deterrent the state of Israel had managed to avoid major wars with the Palestinians and Hezbollah since 2006 when Hezbollah rained down thousands of Iranian-supplied rockets on Northern Israel, and the Cast-Iron invasion of Gaza. While the Jewish state didn't completely subdue the Palestinians and Hezbollah in the last engagements, it would be unlikely Hezbollah would relish another war with Israel any time soon. Moreover this time, Israel would be ready to counter in case Hezbollah thought they could repeat the same performance as in 2006 fight. Israel had found an answer through its own designed and built the Steel Dome anti-rocket shields. For the Palestinians, they are afraid a new Israeli prime minister may decide to reoccupy Gaza. If that happens, it will spell the end of Hamas. That they want to avoid at all cost.
It's undeniable that the deterrent of the IDF is second to none in the world, and it had given Israel respite to develop its economy and country
I once knew a boy, yes, just a boy of 19 or something. He was of medium build, a regular boy I saw every day. He was one of three sons of my friends.
When he started dating and going to places of entertainment he sometimes got into altercations with people; especially people who had consumed a lot of alcohol. And they might have come to blows. I didn't know for sure exactly what had happened and where, but Norm (not his real name) suddenly became famous..for being MuayThai fighter. His reputation spread like wild fire and, unfortunately, before he knew it they were skilled fighters who wanted to check out his skill.
I feared for his safety, as as far as I knew he was not truly a trained Thai boxing exponent although all Thai youths know MuayThai. However, I had worried unnecessarily; the boy lived up to his reputation. He stamped his mark in Georgetown as the king of all fighters. He was in no time hired by one of the biggest accident car-towing companies in Georgetown. Accident car towing operators were (and still are) like vultures swooping down on car wrecks. More often than not, fights broke out between rival gangs. Among these operators one Sin Teow Leong emerged as quite a deterring fellow. Whenever other towing service pick-up drivers spotted Sin Teow Leong's trucks speeding towards accident scene, they gave it a miss. They didn't want any trouble. That's the benefit of deterrent. I happened to know this Sin Teow Leong personally. I had gone to his workshop a couple of time; he looked like a man in his fifties, a bit pot-bellied, but not menacing. Perhaps he had a reputation as a dangerous man.
Ironically it was the same man that hired the Thai boy to be his bodyguard. He must have been impressed with Norm's reputation as the fearless fighter of Penang.
Col. Qaddafi of Libya made the biggest mistake of his life when he allowed himself to become not dangerous or less dangerous. When you become weak and show it, you attract trouble like a magnet. Trouble follows you every where.
The Col. agreed with President Bush to scrap his weapons of mass destruction program, stop exporting terrorism and violence and turn over a new leaf, and see what he had got. Even a so-called spineless president of the United States viewed him as not dangerous. President Obama himself said as much, when he defended intervening in Libya: "We can't go around intervening in every country even if there are humanitarian crisis, but in Libya it's 'doable' (less dangerous!).There would be no need for boots on the ground. You see it pays to attack Qaddafi, suicide to attack Iran or Syria."
Even the Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo was too strong for Obama, British prime minister David Cameron and president Nicolas Sarkozy of France, and UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. The combined might of these three western countries, including the UN, were no match for Laurent Gbagbo. He even established his own no-fly zone and told the French air force to beat it, which they did.
Laurent Gbagbo failed to get reelected, but refused to make way for the internationally-recognized winner of the presidential election. The winner was forced to hole up in a hotel and comforted by the sympathetic Ban Ki-moon while his fighters battled Laurent Gbagbo's army for control of the country. There were reports of massacres by both sides of thousands of innocent civilians, but there was no talk of intervention or to establish a no-fly zone, or other measures to oust Gbagbo. President Obama even had the audacity to say: "We hope to settle this conflict in a peaceful way. Negotiation is the preferred way forward." There was no mention of the stain in the conscience of the world brought about by the killings in Ivory Coast. The situation was much worse than in Libya, yet no action. If this was not double standard, I don't know what's.
There was not doubt, the British, French and the American governments have their own individual reasons for going after Qaddafi's hide. For one, I heard Qaddafi had intended to sell his oil to the Chinese instead of the Europeans, and also threatened to switch from using French banks. President Sarkozy knew if French banks went under, so would he as president. There was no reports of Qaddafi turning against America. It's possible if the carried out his threat to dump French banks he would park his money in American banks. President Obama was aware of at least one Qaddafi's deposit of $300m in American bank, which he rushed to embargo in order to reduce Qaddafi's ability to fight back. He was not only a spineless president but clueless, flat-footed and hen-pecked president. He himself said clearly Qaddafi had no quarrel with the United States, and vice versa, and yet he went on to attack Libya (for no reason whatsoever). Secretary of state Hillary Clinton tried to defend her boss' weird action by mentioning .."Even though Libya was not a threat to the US, we have to repay our NATO friends for agreeing to help us in Afghanistan even though Afghanistan posed no threat to them."He claimed Qaddafi threatened to search house to house, room to room to go after those who tried to overthrow him. And what's wrong with that? Qaddafi said those who surrendered their arms or were not armed had nothing to fear; free to leave or stay. He even allowed a corridor for the rebels to escape to Egypt. And yet President Obama had the audacity tell the world that if nothing was done to stop Qaddafi, up to seventy thousands people would be massacred. Yes, that's right - in his mind. He knew even after fighting for a month to regain lost territories, there was no reports of deliberate killing of civilians. If any, it was due to his Cairo speech where he instigated the youths to overthrow their governments. He was plainly lying to the world, pulling wool over everyone's eyes, and the world kept quiet and Obama took it as approval. Now, instead, the world's conscience had been stained by the western powers' victimization against an innocent man. He was presumed guilty and punished before he was put on trial. He may be guilty of ordering the downing of Pan-Am plane over Lockerbie, but that's according to his former foreign minister who defected, what did you expect from traitor - to save his own skin. He reportedly left without his family, but there was no report Qaddafi went after his family. This man (Col. Qaddafi)was more honorable than his own foreign minister and the four western leaders combined.
These leaders are also losers, and always will be. If they think by attacking a helplessly small country who's no match for even one of them, let alone ten western countries combined, they can leave their legacies for future generations to admire, they are wrong.
Even today, people are questioning President Obama's rationale in going into Libya. If he wanted to save civilians like he claimed, how about saving some Syrians who are facing a much more brutal dictator? By right Barrack Hussein Obama should never be allowed to run for president of the United States; he failed to prove he was eligible but was waved through by a biased judge. He took two years before showing his long form birth certificate (not before he ready, apparently). He's also shrewd in getting the endorsement of prominent leaders like Senator Edward Kennedy, in order to elevate his standing, if he had any, to that of Senator Hillary Clinton, and eventually snatched the Democratic Party's nomination from her.
Through a brilliant maneuvering he managed to rise from a first term senator to defeat the former first lady, who was thought to be a shoo-in from the beginning.
Senator John McCain was next. Even a former Hanoi prisoner of war, a hero in his own right, could not overcome a community organizer first term senator: thanks to the round the clock sound-bite from an army of obedient MSNBC talk show hosts; columnists, analysts, investigative reporters and college professors who gave their all for Senator Barrack Hussein Obama.
Jun 28, 2011
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It had been reported that the Datuk "T" trio that had shown sex video depicting a man resembling Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, had pleaded guilty to the charge of exhibiting pornographic video to selected magazine and newspapers editors, and were fined various sum of money.
However, what transpired in court that day that caught people's attention was not so much the fact that the trio were charged, found guilty (pleaded guilty) and punished, but other aspects of the proceeding.
For instance, the Parti Keadilan Rakyat's (PKR) adviser or shall we say, defacto leader, was accused on the fly of being the man in the video in court. Although Anwar was not the matter of the court proceeding, some people couldn't help but took a shot at him anyway just for a sake. Even that one Anwar or the Malaysian people were prepared to let it pass, but. The Americans -- living thousands of miles away from Malaysia, about which they knew nothing about -- unexpectedly joined the fray! That they couldn't understand, nor let it pass.They were portrayed as US authorities? Tell me, just by being college professors, do these two persons represent the US government or American people? Who allow them to call themselves "US authorities?" Why they waded into a complex political situation they knew little about? Even if they were paid a lot of money, which I am not saying they were, they shouldn't get involved. The American government owes it to the Malaysian people to set the record straight: whether the duo, Professor Hany Farid and Professor Lorenzo Torresani's opinions represent the US government's or their own.Anwar had repeatedly denied he's the actor having sex with the foreign prostitute in the video. He even provided an alibi, but to no avail. That's was understandable as the opposition leader was embroiled in Malaysian politics. And you know what being in politics means, entails? It means like what our former prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad used to say: "In politics there no permanent friends or enemies." If there were people who hated Anwar and wanted to hurt him, there 're ways to do that to him; this was it. He cannot run away. They won't stop until they get him.
However, I am not against the Datuk "T" trio. Or anybody; if that's what they wanted to do, by all means...They're entitled to do what they considered right. But I am against foreigners to get involved in something even we in Malaysia don't know for sure what's going on --let alone those living at the other end of the glob. What's their wisdom, if not motive, in doing this?Why do you think Haley Reinhart got voted off Idol?
This was the question I found on Yahoo Answers site when I typed http://dvidrubinlang.newsvine.com (which is my column)in my Firefox browser. On peering you might think it was my question; everything has my details, my domain, etc.,but it was not.
If you click on the link, you would be taken to Yahoo Answers website. And if you're a member, you could even give your opinion.
I am an active member of Yahoo Answers. After I clicked the link, yes I was taken to answer the question. I was among seven responders to the question. Look for nanoman (my display name) if you want to read my take and others' on the subject
Wait a minute, Blogger is warning HTML is not accepted. So, sorry, you cannot link to the Yahoo Answers from here. It's forbidden. But never mind, I will paste my (nanoman's) answer here:
While I believe all three were good enough to bag the crown, I can live with Lauren or Scotty win.Still, I need to say this: Haley didn't deserve to be booted. She has stage presence (which is part and parcel of being a star, or want to become a kick-*** performer) and she's gorgeous, ever ready to give you that broad and the sincerest of any smiles, and what a talent. But let's face it, there were only enough room for two that night, and Haley got the ax. Poor Haley. She went the way and manner James Durbin went -- judges' comments. But that's where the similarity ended. Haley paid the price due to too many negative comments, while James lost out because of the opposite reason. The two judges' open rooting for him did (him) more harm than good -- it put off some of the nation-wide voters.
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If you click on the link, you would be taken to Yahoo Answers website. And if you're a member, you could even give your opinion.
I am an active member of Yahoo Answers. After I clicked the link, yes I was taken to answer the question. I was among seven responders to the question. Look for nanoman (my display name) if you want to read my take and others' on the subject
Wait a minute, Blogger is warning HTML is not accepted. So, sorry, you cannot link to the Yahoo Answers from here. It's forbidden. But never mind, I will paste my (nanoman's) answer here:
While I believe all three were good enough to bag the crown, I can live with Lauren or Scotty win.Still, I need to say this: Haley didn't deserve to be booted. She has stage presence (which is part and parcel of being a star, or want to become a kick-*** performer) and she's gorgeous, ever ready to give you that broad and the sincerest of any smiles, and what a talent. But let's face it, there were only enough room for two that night, and Haley got the ax. Poor Haley. She went the way and manner James Durbin went -- judges' comments. But that's where the similarity ended. Haley paid the price due to too many negative comments, while James lost out because of the opposite reason. The two judges' open rooting for him did (him) more harm than good -- it put off some of the nation-wide voters.
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Why Haley Reinhart was booted out of American Idol?
As American Idol Competition inched towards the finale, one notable absentee would be missed. Haley Reinhart.
Haley thought she as much as thought she had every thing looking promising for herself for that coveted crown; she sang her heart out every time she’s called upon to, and every time she finished her songs and heard the screams and applause of approvals from the audience she felt more and more confident that she was on her way. Amazingly she felt right at home on stage, as if she belonged there, and she vowed, win or lose, that’s where she wanted to be. She wanted to be a star, whatever it takes.
However, she also realized that the other two contestants were dreaming of the same thing and they were good, too.
Although she’s doing every thing she possibly could to stay in the competition, which was getting tighter and tighter as they‘re heading to the finale, Haley hoped her broad and captivating smiles would see her through to the finale. They didn’t. And every time Jennifer Lopez or Randy Jackson, or both, took her to task over poor song choices (thank God, not her vocals), her heart sank. She realized the danger of too many criticisms from the judges. While at the tail end of the competition, it was the nation-wide voting which determined who continued to have a shot at the title, she didn’t dismiss the judges' comments as having no effect on her overall chance. They did, unfortunately. She had landed herself in the bottom three more than once and she could not rule out it was not due to the two judges’ remarks.
Even both Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson themselves seemed to realize what happened (they might have gone too far in criticizing Haley) and, to their credit, tried to minimize, if not undo, the damage to the poor girl, but it was too late, to no avail, if you will. Haley was booted out! Look, the nation-wide voters, while they thought the world of Reinhart’s singing prowess, still had two equally good singers to choose from and that’s all they needed. They didn’t relish cutting short Haley’s amazing journey towards the American Idol’s (season 10) crown, but they’d a job to do, and was looking forward to finishing it, with or without Haley. There were only two places in the finale. Somebody out of the three would have to go home and, based on the judges’ (Lopez and Jackson) frequent, unfavorable remarks, the nation-wide voters' task was made easier; they decided it should be Haley.
Poor Haley, she gave her all; but still fell short. Like James Durbin who assigned blames for his defeat, Haley also felt like assigning blames, too, but apparently she was too nice to bring herself to blame others for her own failure. She did the right thing. She told herself she alone was responsible for her being booted out; she fluffed.
To Haley, I want to offer this advice: "Keep doing what you do best. You’re a star, whether you're American Idol or not. You have proven you have what it takes by reaching the last three round. Many people said you have what they call stage presence, and I agree. To be a star you need a total package; singing, prancing on stage and so on. You seemed to have these under your belt. Only a blind man can't see that in you: broadest, captivating smile that will light up anyone's spirit; gorgeous looks, and what a talent.
As far as I am concerned, your American Idol contest participation was just a start…a stepping stone, I hope, to great things to come – such as lucrative contracts and slew of albums to your name, not to mention the #1 spot on the chart, who knows!
"Good luck! Keep singing."
American Mao
Obama's "Red Guards" unleashed
Many, if not all, leaders the world over would like to leave some sort of legacies behind for the world to admire. But not all legacies are intended or desirable. In 1966 Chairman Mao Tse Tung, worried about being overtaken by events that exploded in Russia, the birth place of communism, and his place in history, launched what he called Proletarian Cultural Revolution purportedly to purge China of bourgeois and reactionary elements, aka his enemies. He turned China upside down when he unleashed his Red Guards in the millions on the people of China. Millions were dragged from their homes and beds to be subjected to humiliation and violence in the streets and public squares. No one was exempted; not even court judges, not even the president of China then, Liu Shaochi, or even the parents of the Red Guards themselves. No report cards were required to warrant prosecution. In another word, all Chinese, men or women or children -- any human beings that moved -- were targeted. It was a tale of humanitarian crisis of epic proportion. And millions of Chinese of all ages, no matter guilty or not, perished.
Exactly forty five years later history is repeating itself. The man who was behind the infamous Cultural Revolution museum, had this to say for anyone thinking of going down the same path as Mao: "There is a Chinese proverb which says you should use history as a mirror." said Peng Qian, the deputy major of Shantou, who was himself a victim of Red Guards' excesses. "The message is that history is a warning to us not to make the same mistake twice (whatever the reasons). Don't emulate Chairman Mao."
Apparently President Obama disagreed, for he launched his own equivalent revolution soon after taking office, with catastrophic effect which would make Mao Tse Tung proud. During the Cairo speech (purportedly to reach out to Muslims or Muslim world), Obama was not only there to atone for the unfair treatment of Muslims by previous administrations, "Because of the 9/11 event, the US became furious and irrational and took actions (against Muslim) which were unjust and unjustified," but to change the political landscape of the Middle East. Like former president George W. Bush, President Obama wanted to promote democracy. But that's where the similarity ends. If Bush worked top down at getting western-allied dictators to allow more freedom, more to participate in the democratic process (which didn't seem to work), Obama chose to work from bottom up, by instigating the youths, men and women in the streets to remove the tyrants altogether. In his speech, Obama didn't mince his words. "Any government that suppresses peaceful protests loses legitimacy to lead and must must go." Applause after applause erupted in the hall of the Islamic University every time he alluded to the current regimes in uncompromising tone (which must have cast a chill over Mubarak, his host, who was present:"Governments should not, must not, use force to stay in power. It's not sustainable nor justifiable." But the clearest yet to what can be viewed as his call to his "Red Guards" to battle stations was when he unabashedly proclaimed right under Mubarak's nose: "You have the universal right to choose your own form of government. The United States of America would standby you in your endeavor." He couldn't be more unambiguous than that. And the fact that President Mubarak sat out (endured) the entire Obama's unbelievable narrative, showed who's a better leader and more deserving to lead. It also showed Mubarak a spent force. If he pulled a stunt like that in Pakistan, which was unlikely, President Asif Ali Zardari would definitely walk out, or switch off the mike and escort Obama from the stage and towards his Air Force One. When Obama said Hosni Mubarak could not continue to lead Egypt, he meant literally. No leader, let alone a strongman, of a country would allow another foreign leader, no matter who they are, to come into his country and incite his people right under his nose to topple him. Emboldened by Mubarak silence, President Obama not only pepped up the demonstrators but went to work to make Mubarak's hold on power unsustainable. The Egyptian army was Mubarak's source of strength; once the Obama administration had managed to convince the generals to ditch him it's all over for Mubarak.
President Obama knew that after the Cairo speech it was a matter of time before his locomotive of change (you can believe in or not) started to roll.. And it did. First President Zine Abadine Ben Ali was sent packing by Tunisian demonstrators aka Obama's "Red Guards'" "Flawless," Obama said to himself after being briefed by his national security team. Next, Egypt's strongman was shown the exit by Egypt's military after the generals (who had trained at West Point and had maintained close relationship with their American counterparts) was persuaded by the Pentagon to disobey their president's orders to suppress the uprising. Again, "Flawless!"said Obama, mimicking Dame Barko in a scene from the movie The Chronicle of Riddick, when the Lord Marshall, the Beast, was fatally wounded by the Furian Riddick, and her husband Lord Barko rushed in to finish off the beast in order to 'keep what you kill.' But Dame Barko uttered "Flawless" too soon, as the Furian beat him to it. In utter frustration, she cried out.."NOoo!" hysterically. So far so good. But something unforeseen could happen to his 'flawless' plan like what happened to Lord Barko and his wife's. But that's just a movie, Obama was sure to say, to pep himself up. Now all he had to do was wait...for another group of me-too youths somewhere to emulate their Egyptian Tahrir square protesters to do some protesting. He didn't have to wait long. Libya was plunged into the abyss when Qaddafi tried to buck the trend, by cracking down on the demonstrators.
President Obama was caught flatfooted and pissed off. "How dare he (Qaddafi) defied me," a visibly outraged Obama cursed, when told by his advisers that the whole shebang of his Pro-democracy Revolution could be in danger of being stopped in its tracks. If Qaddafi wins, or bucks the trend, then it's all over, he was told. Other Arab leaders who have been warily watching the upheavals that had spread through the Middle East, realized they too, could crack down and could get away with it. So began the no-holds-barred vitriol against Qaddafi. "He's a mad man; unfit to govern, lost legitimacy to lead, turned his guns on his own people, master mind behind Pan-Am bombing etc.etc.-- he had to go."
Armed with the knowledge that the US armed forces possess unique capabilities to defeat any country in the world, President Obama, with hatred against Libya's strongman aka his nemesis increasing every day, wasted no time in getting organized. He vowed: "You'll not stop me!"
That said, he ordered his UN representative Susan Rice (Not related to Condoleezza Rice?) to get the UN security council to approve a no-fly zone resolution (so that that he can bomb the hell out of Qaddafi's armed forces without having to have boots on the ground) but to no avail, at first. Without the endorsement from the Arab league there was the danger of Russia or China using their vetoes. So, according to AP or AAP article quote: "Wow, President Obama flew propaganda planes over America and Libya (and may I add? Middle East)." Why the Arab league suddenly decided to support the no-fly zone, I could only speculate. Was there an arm-twisting or quid pro quo involved? I don't know. But I'll say this much: the support seemed more extracted than given as barely 36 hours after the blitz began, Amr Moussa complained over disproportionate use of force by the American-led/funded coalition of the willing or unwilling. Turkey, too, disagreed with the bombing of Qaddafi's ground troops and armor. However, after a hiatus of two days, Obama announced to the American people that the problems had been overcome. This man definitely could overcome problems as he had been doing it all the time.The seemingly ubiquitous non-stop references to the Arab League "support and participation" seemed to indicate that the support wasn't that solid; even secretary of state Hillary Clinton's announcement of more Arab countries agreeing to participate in the enforcement of the no-fly zone, for which she expressed appreciation in advance, didn't materialize.
These are some of the comments from around the globe on the wisdom of Obama's taking side in a civil war under the pretext of protecting civilians?
- JOHAN JAAFFA zulu.jj@hotmail.com, a prominent writer and columnist, quote: "SENDING missiles to pulverize Muammar Qaddafi's army is not the way to rid a despot the West loves to hate. Imposing a no-fly zone is something, but attacking a sovereign nation is another. There is no excuse to do so and the international community should be up in arms to condemn the move."
- The Los Angeles Times, in its article "Obama's nuanced foreign policy evident in Libya vs. Syria," said: The difference in US foreign policy toward them is an example of Obama's general approach to government: seeing policy in shades of gray rather than black and white. A senior administration official confirmed that even milder measures, such as withdrawal of US ambassador, tightening of sanctions or other economic isolation are not being weighed."
- DIPANKAR GUPTA (a Fellow at Nehru's Museum), has opined: "If all it takes for a revolution to happen is a bad report card, why only Egypt. What began with educated unemployed youths, before long began to attract ordinary people and women. As all this happened without a designated leader, it was more than magic: it was a miracle! But wait a minute. While Egypt lacked a leader on the ground, it had one from afar. Without President Obama's constant support the Egyptian revolution would have failed."
- In his article, African American Pundit wrote:" Sounding more like a war monger and like former president George W. Bush, than Nobel Peace Prize Winner, President Obama said of military action in Libya: 'We had to act. The United States intervened in Libya to prevent a slaughter of civilians that will stain the world's conscience and 'been a betrayal of who we are' as Americans'". According to the article, AAP says: "Wow, Obama just flew a propaganda plane over the United States, just like the US has deployed propaganda plane over Libya.
In conclusion, correct me if I'm wrong, I've to say this. President Obama, like other great leaders, wants to leave something behind that will be admired, respected and talked about for generations to come. His actions during the first year of his presidency didn't help his quest to leave a laudable legacy. He was accused of bowing too low to the emperor of Japan, bowed and kissed the hand of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, heeded China's demand not to hold joint Naval War Games with South Korea near its maritime border, caved in to Russia's demand to cancel the project of stationing missile sites in Poland and other former Soviet republics or else..,refusing to even admonish Pakistan leaders for closing its border crossings, stranding hundreds of NATO trucks carrying supplies to the war fronts in Afghanistan and making them sitting ducks to the Taliban.To be fair, Obama's behavior so far was actually in consistence with his doctrine of peace not confrontation, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize, hands down. But what had caused him to change from a peaceful, humble man to a violent warmonger? Was it a desire to emulate Chairman Mao too strong to resist, or was it he had had enough of the insults hurled at him and for uncomplimentary names he had been called (dethering, spineless, junior senator, community organizer, selective (double-standard) foreign policy maker, to name a few)?. Anyone can be forgiven for being furious for being called such names. So, he consulted the happy people at the Pentagon, National Security Advisory Committee, including the generals and Samantha Powers,what he should do. "Crack down,"they replied resoundingly. But, where or whom to crack down on? They can't possibly mean the American people! They are not calling for him to "go." Not yet anyway; not until 2012. So, it was the poor Qaddafi -- the former strongman turned not so strong any more -- who bore the brunt of Obama's flexing of muscles. In China Mao Ze Dung relied on his Red Guards to humiliate, torture, and kill without mercy; in Libya President Obama relied on his "Red Guards" (me-too youths) and what he ubiquitously referred to as US armed forces' unique capabilities, to make Col. Qaddafi "go!"
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