"This seems reasonable to me."
Posted on 02/09/2007 10:25:18 AM PST by archy
Yup- and don't forget the hand-wringing too
Now that Ban Ki Moon is the new U.N secretary- we'll see how he reacts to this- hopefully he'll act MUCH better than Kofi Anal did
"This seems reasonable to me."
Condi, Condi...maybe you shoulda stuck with the piano...
Isreal should have whacked this guy a long time ago.
Hmm. Putin was a KGB bigshot, right? And Russia is a member of the laughable "Quartet," right? Maybe we should out-source this problem to the KGB. When Nasser's head appears at Abbas' door the next morning, then maybe we can expect some progress in the MidEast "peace(sic) process."
"*GAK!*" That picture is fricking obscene.
Hmm. Putin was a KGB bigshot, right? And Russia is a member of the laughable "Quartet," right? Maybe we should out-source this problem to the KGB. When Nasser's head appears at Abbas' door the next morning, then maybe we can expect some progress in the MidEast "peace(sic) process." <
Yeah, Putin's one of the siloviki [ex-KGB spooks or those working for its successor organisation, the KGB itself having been officially dissolved in December 1991, a few weeks before officil finis to the Soviet Union itself] who made his bones coming up through the ranks of the KGB. It was later in the post-KGB-era, though, on 25 July 1998, that Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin to head the FSB, the position Putin occupied until August 1999.
There's about one FSB chekisti for every 300 citizens of the new Russian Federation, so there are plenty of opportunities for a young up-and-comer to advance, and pleanty of mediocre souls whose heads never rise above those of their fellows. But it's the worker bees in the KGB/FSB foreign intelligence directorate who earn the big bucks, and that was where Putin clearly scored his biggest successes.
But if I were you, I wouldn't be expecting to see the FSB collecting Abu Nassar's head anytime soon, since the smart money has been suggesting that the recent successes that the British have had in uncovering Jihadist plots in Great Britain have come following helpful FSB tipoffs. Accordingly, I'd not expect to see the Russians start liquidating their best information sources and shut off that intelligence pipeline. Whether Abu Nassar is one of those, or is just part of the *forest* of trees among which those who are can blend in makes little differences. Like the KGB before it, the FSB hedges its bets.
As with Arafat, Israel's first considerations would be: with him gone, who then will fill the vacuum....and how then will he prove his worthiness toi the others.
That is a liberal view point. What is the position Isreal has had since 1948? Their potential elimination from the planet, genocide, and the loss of their identity. They knew from the beginning of this political evolution, that their movement into the forefront of world politics would end up as an up hill battle.
We see Omert as a disfunctional leader, barely surviving a potential coup, by his own people after almost selling the Isrealis down the river and acquiescing to the demands of the Arabs.
In the recent history of these people, when has appeasement been in their dialect?
Not until recently.
someone will always step into the fray, and pose a problem to them. Such has been the way of the Jew from the beginning of their religion over the numerous millenia of their existance.
By the way, in my unhumble opinion - you're going to love this - Arabs and Persians are not worthy of anything.
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