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To: tekboy who wrote (3462)	9/16/2001 7:43:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

* The Eagle has landed * Tekuboi-san, I will be interested to see how closely they follow my script. Apart from the wish to capture Osama Bin Laden and associated people, I think he is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The need is to politically stabilize and civilize Afghanistan [and Iraq]. That will require United Nations consitutional action together with actual invasion by the new Colonialists [the UN, led by the USA in this instance] who will run it under a federal system with local autonomy. Nearly all Afghans would love it! It would be a LOT better than being a refugee. news.sify.com <US marines land in Pakistan: report Islamabad, Sep 15 US troops landed at Islamabad International Airport on Friday morning, two Pakistani dalies reported. According to unofficial reports, a contingent of over 50 personnel from the Special Services Group of the US Marines' Green Seals have landed for conducting 'target oriented' operations against Bin Laden, prime suspect in the terrorist strikes in the US. A military plane brought the US troops to Islamabad, who were then taken to an unknown place. Islamabad Airport remained closed from 3 to 5am on Friday morning-- which according to the eyewitness account was the time of arrival of US troops. A senior official told The News that "some kind of a military exercise" was going on at the time of the closure of the airport. "There is a normal schedule of such type of exercises, and one should not worry about it," said the senior official. The Nation daily on Saturday reported that a special plane carrying over two dozen foreigners landed at the Chakala airbase in early Friday. > Thanks for offering to post your friend's ideas. Mq

To: tekboy who wrote (3462)	9/17/2001 11:28:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Tekboi-san, Russia seems to agree with me about UN running Afghanistan [to some extent anyway]. I can't think of a better way. Nuking the rubble from 20 years of war isn't the final solution but might be necessary to get Taleban agreement to UN supervision of Afghanistan. siliconinvestor.com <It also notes that "Russia is convinced as usual" that the conflict in Afghanistan "has no military solution and can be settled exclusively by political means under UN auspices." Russia "along with the other states concerned will continue giving political, diplomatic, humanitarian and other support to the recognized government of Afghanistan." Russia "is ready to further constructively interact with the international community under UN leadership toward forming a global anti-terror front." "The latest events in and outside Afghanistan have proved that the anti-terror sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on the Taliban are timely and necessary," > I think we have the right combination. The USA needs to phone Sharon and tell him how Israel is going to accept a Palestinian state and pretty damn smartly too. Arafat is already as scared as hell; he'll say okay pretty quickly. I once saw Israeli tanks shove some United Nations tanks out of the way [via tv pictures]. Well, it's time for some United Nations tanks to shove some Israeli tanks out of the way if they won't move by themselves. Maybe the UN should blow up the rock in Jerusalem and build a replica of the World Trade Center in its place, with a UN flag on top. A lot of people around this planet have had enough of the mayhem those people are causing. I do not care what happened 1000 or 2000 years ago. I don't care who owned what rock then. Nobody alive today owned anything. All power to the USA military and political resolution of the maniacal conflicts. But let's see the UN flag flying high and a reconstitution so there is no Srebenica when the coming conflicts are over. Leaving power to any of the locals is like leaving fighting children in a sandpit unsupervised. No more Srebenicas. Yay for Putin. Russia is re-entering the civilized world after a century of going nowhere. Mqurice

To: tekboy who wrote (3462)	10/16/2001 10:32:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Making the world safe for CDMA [starting with Afghanistan]. Tekuboi-san, AOS seems to be resolving into some good ideas which don't; thanks for the WSJ link. Message 16509332 It seems that the Islamic medievalists want to have the profits of modernity without the privately-owned, interest-bearing, free enterprise capitalism and cosmopolitan polyglot secular governmental systems which enable it. The WSJ article focuses too much on the benefits to Afghanistan and not enough on the benefits to the USA and Rest of World. We [the UN crowd] are not in it for charity! There's oil in them thar hills [north of and I suppose in Afghanistan] and that oil should be used to fund international agencies which politically stabilize Afghanistan and the production and transport of the oil. I'm sure George Bush and his oil buddies will notice those prospects. Russia and other countries in the area would benefit from a big oil cash flow too. Big pipelines across Afghanistan and Pakistan would be a good economic input to Afghanistan while diversifying low cost supply beyond the Straits of Hormuz. Maybe Saudi Arabia would like to get their chequebook out to help fund Afghanistan's stabilization. I hear they have $10 million burning a hole in their pocket which wasn't needed in New York. If Saudi Arabia does enough funding and keeps the price of oil around $15 a barrel, there might not be a need to build an Afghanistan pipeline to compete with Saudi oil too quickly. The USA has done enough funding by way of buying Saudi oil and providing military forces. The USA was the victim of the attack and I don't see why they should pay more to help out the people who have harboured the attackers and who have little cultural sympathy with the USA. Let's see Saudi Arabia, Iran and others in the area provide some serious support by way of money and military police. The UN can hire a big Pakistani force, using Saudi oil money, to man the sentry boxes while things in Afghanistan are sorted out. USA companies can bid for contracts to build pipelines [assuming they are a good investment]. Colinisation Powell seems to be doing a good job [thanks for that link too]http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/international/16CND-POWE.html?searchpv=nytToday Maybe Kashmir is the next place to be Colinized into a UN Protectorate. Pretty soon, the UN will be one of the biggest countries! Nation states are ugly artifacts from medieval times and the immediate mess in the world is due to the worst of them, based on medieval superstition, creating mayhem in downtown New York. When it took them a month by camel or horse to get across Eurasia, things were more easily managed. Roll on UN development into a sensible international federal organisation. First is needed some reconstitution and to get away from the silly one country one vote system,[Vanuatu equal to India is absurd]. Do you see what I mean about there being no sidelines? From the sidelines, Mqurice PS: Tek-baby is growing up quickly! Nice pictures, thanks. And congratulations on a fine-looking happy young man.