Middle of (Changing) East

We have come a long way since pre 9/11 era, the world picture has changed.  The old patterns are not indicative of the future trends in sociopolitical discourse.  In a way the world is getting closer and acting as one unit more and more.  With prosperity of on member state directly benefiting the others.  Much like the social-capitalist system operating in US.  If by in large most people are doing well then system is doing well.

This is a good sign compared to the pre 9/11 colonialist style of domination and manipulation applied by powerful few states to control resources for survival and most recently to gorge on almost free supply of goods from those uninformed savages.

As more and more nations turn the corner on civil society principles with accountability for their leaders (aka servants) they will demand fair price and value for their goods and services.

Then truly the world nations will in lots of ways will become one..........until then lets kick ass of whats left of the dictators and non represented figureheads.

Not again?

We simply can not afford to forget Bush era violations and terrorising way of responding to 9/11.  All is not good in Iraq and if we are not true to our ideals and agree that "sometimes shit happends" to pretect our intersts, then we are in for even bigger tragedy than 9/11.  I see the west has become complaicent again and reverting back to the old colonial ways of dealing with international issues.  The Isreal will get us in trouble again, still no Plestanian state.  We are accepting rash of new semi dictators that are friendly to our oil needs with slogan "Let the freedom ring only in select places".

Here is an idea to help control domination and total disregard to human life by rich nations with well equipped armed forces and even those rouge nations:

In any conflict if an organized army kills a civilian it will have to compensate the victim's family based on value of an average US life. For example if US a soldier kills an Afghan, the family will receive how US courts calculates loss of average US citizen's life plus hardship. That mount can be an average yearly cases in the civil courts.

Imagine if that was the case perhaps Bush and rest of criminals would have had second thought about invading a country based on lies and fabricated evidence.

Afghan Massacre - Part Who Knows

I find it ironic that when WE WITH SUPERIOR FIRE POWER commit atrocities and killing of innocent people the story turns (at least in the home country and I am sure also in the surrogate nations) to a personal human one with kids, no job, stress, losing comrades in arms, PTSD,........ The focus is on how tough the young man or men had it with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The in depth coverage of personal life history of the young man makes you to at one point feel sorry for him and ask that he be treated for mental health problems. He is behind on his mortgage payments and disturbed by violence of the war, dam it he needs help. In about four weeks the media will even stop referring to the killing of 16 women, children, and men as massacre. The story will take the savagery of the massacre and spins it to well patterned human tragedy with old high school buddy, neighbor, mom, wife, grade school teacher, pastor,.......

I wonder if few of the chicken shit political leaders and media moguls would have taken the same approach with the sick minded 19 men (and few other cohorts) that boarded the planes on September, 11 2001. Instead the story turned into much bigger (made up of course) enemy namely "Extremest Islam-o-fascists" portrayed as well organized huge group with standing army and mass support in Middle East and Africa. Then it was not about how these young men with mental health issues were driven to do such a inhuman act. Perhaps if we had reacted the same way we are reacting to this soldier killing 16 Afghan people point blank huddled in their mud homes world would have been in a better place.

The legacy of the 9/11 will haunt us for a long time.

UN, US, USSR, China, and EU will have to bring regime change to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Egypt (yes not this charade), and Algeria. Its time to make a stand for "real" human rights values without fear of oil supply or strategic (aka don't give a shit for those sand dwellers) plan.

Another reminder about Israel -- This nation is not invented!! It was CREATED as a respond to European guilt for what they did to hard working Jewish people until after WWII. It existence in current form is unnatural and can not be sustained. It has survived by direct and indirect life support from US and Europe. On its own will never survive even with nuclear weapon . The other unfortunate aspect of the Israel story is that it's social and political structure only functions based on its struggle for survival which means it will be unable to renounce violence and enjoy piece full existence. Over 70 years of conflict has evolved its people to view war and arm struggle as the only way of life. Same thing had happened to Palestinians which will continue to fuel conflict and hatred. The best way to deal with this mess is to make Israel headquarter of the united nations and allow Jews and Palestinians to become UN citizens.

OK, how long will US occupy nations and wonder why they are not fixed! Afghanistan is unravelling and lets not even talk about Iraq. Meanwhile some good things are happening in rest of the Arab world. Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, and Yemen are good examples of the changes the area will see in the next 5 to 10 years. Other one man states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and UAE will be next. Syria will most likely be a while before brakes up since west is both for it and not for it. Once the dust settles on these failed puppet states slate will be cleaned for perhaps genuine beginnings of a civil societies to take holed. Even then it will be a long hard road to see sustainable forward development in the area. The "outside factor" like thirst for OIL and geopolitical chess games by major powers is another reason why this transition will be very messy. Unfortunately more US and EU citizen will most likely die in the process, in fact the loss of life is already factored in the equation by WEST policy managers. The other factor for the next decade will be which of these nations will have nuclear breakout. With Iran on the verge and Israel (son of US) already a club member things are gone a get HOT........................

Always check NEWS facts

Remember those with strategic agenda, plan or per planned objective are working toward achieving hire individual and collective goals. That could be nations, focus groups, NGOs, block of nations,...etc. The Internet generation has huge advantage and ability to vet news and information that is being presented even by so called "trusted" news sources. Western people in general are more inclined to do that than rest of the world. So when you read and hear news like Gulf of Tonkin incident type be weary...... we can't afford to find out 30 years later that in fact it didn't happened and was basically misinformation that help proper US forces to land in Vietnam because powers to be had already decided so. That happened with Iraq and you know the outcome..............