Chuck, let's talk global terrorism, I read a lot about it. Do you know who Baybars was and why they like to talk about him in Arab coffee shops? jerusalemites.org
Where were the former borders of Kurdistan? Do you think the Kurds want to have their old country back? Do you think Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and Armenia will allow the Kurds to succeed and found their own nation? There's 13 million Kurds in Turkey, 4.5 million in Iran, 4 million in Iraq, 1.6 million in Syria and 30,000 in Armenia. Now that we've "liberated" them in Iraq they'll start there and then the Turks will invade to squash them as they've done before with the Kurds in Turkey. A major pipeline runs through numerous Kurdish villages and I expect they'll blow it up in the future in retaliation for Turkish attacks, ala Boliva and Equador. akakurdistan.com
The mideast is so complicated I doubt anyone in America truly understands it. I think Bush least of all. He has demonstrated he knows very little about foreign affairs, I doubt he knows anything about history, ask him who Baybars was. Bush is the most incompetent person I could imagine being President when the issue is the mideast. He's ignored career experts in favor of his crackpot political hacks who are not qualified to wage war on terrorists or anybody else for that matter.
We need to focus on truly big issues and terrorism is chump change compared to global warming and the prospects of pandemic infectious diseases and even chronic medical issues like cancer. Bush is incompetent to deal with any scientific or health care issue and so has seized on the only issue that he can sensationalize and that's terrorism. Sadly he's brainwashed many good people like yourself into believing this is actually a big issue when it's not. Weighed against the prospect of millions of people dying preventable deaths and thousands affected by terrorists he chose to start wars. I suspect for ulterior motives associated with The Carlyle Group and other relationships.
We should focus on solving the world's future energy needs and walk away from the middle east. We already get most of our oil from Canada and Mexico anyway. We need to develop nuclear fusion, biomass, solar, wind, pebble-based nuclear fission reactors. We need new approaches to viral diseases. We need stem cell research and gene therapy to tackle cancer. We don't need middle east oil and we don't need to be involved there. Let's leave now and face the major issues of today and tomorrow and stop living in the past.
But what do I know, I'm just an old physicist. |
