Sometimes. Then, other times, you sow things for others to reap...
Or reap things others have sown... :wry:
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JMA
This is exactly why (probably) half the US aid to Afghanistan is used to buy mansions in Dubai for the current government and its cronies as an insurance against the schizophrenic US foreign policy.
"Probably?" Good caveat, lot of wiggle room there...:D
For our Foreign Policy to be schizophrenic, we'd have to have one. We do not. Never have. Save one item -- to react to any threats and remove them. We do that -- one way or another... ;)
Zimbabwe police 'thwart property invasion'
Now who did these 'veterans' upset, somehow I doubt that the facilities were owned by 'whites'?
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Zimbabwean police drove out scores of so-called war veterans and supporters of President Robert Mugabe after they declared themselves new owners of several tourist resorts, a minister and media reports said Monday...The seizures on Saturday near Lake Chivero...
Link, from AFP:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110124...csviolencefarm
You know an election is coming when...
...the Mugabe regime starts to pull bodies out of mine shafts.
I spent a lot of my time operating out of Mount Darwin in the mid 70s. The routine for insurgent KIA from every contact was to back-load the bodies by vehicle or helicopter to the police Special Branch in Mount Darwin so that the bodies could be photographed and fingerprinted. Civilians killed in the "cross-fire" were left in situ for burial in their respective villages.
As the body-count rose the logistics of disposal of these bodies became too great and there was local resistance to the burning of bodies out at the airfield (using expired/old/etc aircraft fuel) due to the smell. Anyone who has smelt bodies burning remembers that smell forever. I understand the solution was found when a local farmer suggested using the many old mine shafts in the area for the purpose.
The issue of the dignity of burial aside it is my understanding that is where the bodies were disposed of. In fact if they only found 1,000 bodies they should go look in some of the other mine shafts in the area.
Later in the war the recovery of all bodies became logistically impossible and the insurgent bodies were searched, stripped of usable military equipment and left in situ.
But the idea that Mugabe is attempting to sell here is that these were not the bodies of armed combatants but rather victims of some or other massacre. Those that want to believe this will believe it as they did during the war regardless of the facts.
... and I leave it to you to guess where the bodies found that are clearly not over 30 years old come from.
Mt Darwin mass graves contain fresh bodies: Pathologist
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"Ordinarily by this time there should only be bone-remains if its true that these bodies are of people who died in the 70s," the pathologist said. "Certainly there should not be any smell at all from the remains over 30 years after those people died."
Who filled Mt Darwin mine with 1 000 human dead bodies?
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The presence of some corpses still with skin, hair and body fluids has raised doubts over claims white colonial-era troops committed the massacres more than 30 years ago.
Pre-election strategy: some signs
Mugabe & ZANU-PF's strategy probably needs little explanation here, but this newsletter by an opposition group provides some details not seen in the sparse external reporting:http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/6583
The depth of corruption is well shown by:
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..the sheer scale of the fraud indicated ..... is staggering. More than 75 000 ghost workers, mostly unqualified Zanu-PF militias and supporters, have been unearthed in the Zimbabwean civil service.....The audit shows that there are more than 75 000 ghost workers out of a total of 188 000 employed in various ministries.
Hello to South Africa ...
and I've added two words to your sentence (and changed one) to make it mine:
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I am having enough trouble keeping up with the amount of stuff Ken and JMA are churning out.
Keep having fun, guys - at least, you all are not sheep. :D:):D
BLUF (my view of thesis): Ms Rodham rejects Alinsky's methodolgies - and also a job offer from him.
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Mr. Alinsky and I met twice during October in Boston and during January at Wellesley. Both times he was generous with ideas and interest. His offer of a place in the new Institute was tempting but after spending a year trying to make sense out of his inconsistency, I need three years of legal rigor.
Viewed from a national level, his methods are too slow and not likely to succeed. What is needed is a substantial change in governance, with large government programs to reach the desired end goals. In essence, a tidal wave vs a "bubble up" from the base.
As I perceive it, Ms Rodham-Clinton has expanded her 1969 construct to an international arena.
Regards
Mike
Thank you for making my case.
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JMA
...there has been a UN presence there since the civil war. They were the vehicle for action and failed. The French were lurking around and were, like in Libya, the prime movers to get the show on the road even if it was pathetically belated.
It was, as I said, no concern of the US...
Given the Executive and ...
a "constitutional majority" in the Legislative - for the first two years of the Obama administration, the Democrats did manage to enact a type of governance change along the lines that I see as Ms Rodham-Clinton's construct.
A friend of mine noted that the Democrats in the first 8 months passed the first 8 years of what they wanted. That's the way I see it from the sidelines - and I am not addressing the merits of our domestic politics here at SWC (my restraint; not a constraint).
Internationally ? My mom used to say that if you can't say anything good about a person, shut up.
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Regards
Mike