a shoe gets thrown at Clifford May

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5208.shtml


AfPak: War on two fronts


As more NATO trucks were being torched in Peshawar last week, a Karachi student managed to fling his shoe at warmongering US journalist Clifford May during his address to the Department of International Relations on “Pakistan ’s Role in Countering the Challenge of Terrorism.”

In Washington, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced bitterly the US probably knows Osama Bin Laden’s whereabouts. He neglected to draw the appropriate conclusion about what the US is really up to in AfPak.

Also in Washington, within hours of the decision of the Nobel Peace committee, US President Barack Obama met with his War Council.

It’s getting to the point that it’s hard to tell who is the biggest opponent of Obama’s plans to bring peace to AfPak: the Taliban, the Pakistani government, or the Nobel committee. Oh yes, or virtually the entire world beyond the Washington beltway.

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The delicious irony of the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan (and Iraq) is that it is China, the US’s real international rival, that has benefited most. Chinese investments (and workers) have been pouring in to both US war zones. The main effect of George W Bush’s two wars and Obama’s AfPak has been to promote Chinese business interests, leaving the US bankrupt and its army in tatters.
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smart Dragon

[Buzz Clik]

1. Not the impact of lauching a shoe at the leader of the free world.

I give it a 5.

[ensho]

2. actually, this shoe is the more important

nt

[Buzz Clik]

3. I see your point. I give the shoe a 9 and the act a 1. Averages to a 5.

[ensho]

5. chuckle

nt

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