Pakistan’s Territorial Integrity: Lessons from American Democracy

#112
{{Our impressions are shaped by personal experiences.}}
Exactly.
#109
My substance is my personal experience. Take care.

#112, your Ad Hominem aside, personal experience can only guide us towards the truth if and only if it is filtered through the method of science. It is great as a guide in evoking interest but not as a sole source of getting to the truth. Your ``personal experience`` itself is socially circumscribed. If you define a situation as real, your experience will fit that definition becomming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The famous ``Thomas Theorem`` states the same. Prejudice and stereotypes fluorish on just such ``personal experience``.

To get to the truth you have to dig deeper, control the irrational elements of your personal experience and use more objective criteria that will result in replicated results regardless of who conducts the research or what the person`s `personal experience`- i.e. biography has been. The key to good social research is 1. history 2. social structure and empirical evidence and 3. biography and how they are interrelated.

Now, these are important tools that have nothing to do with you or I or with India or Pakistan; learn them, use them, instead of basing your posts on baseless rhetoric.

#114
Research is totally based on objectivity of subjective experimentations with lil evidence based interpretational rational with guidance of retrospective comparison leading the study design towards prospective data to be implemented for the progress. And thats what we have been tryin to tell you. Thanks

#115, Zeena, you state <<< ``Research is totally based on objectivity of subjective experimentations with lil evidence based interpretational rational with guidance of retrospective comparison leading the study design towards prospective data to be implemented for the progress. And thats what we have been tryin to tell you. Thanks `` >>>

If there ever was one sentence that anyone would use to explain the word ``gibberish`` to someone, you above sentence would qualify as one of the best. And yes, I understand that is what you have been trying to tell me in response to my posts: gibberish.

#116 masadi
Well, clearly people like you, who are unable to come to a clear understanding of the subject, start caling other`s material gibberish. This shows your frustration. Take it easy, relax, chill out. This ain`t question of life and death. Take care

Really man, Uncle Sam is not the sole ingredient for success. He helps out a lot. But you have to have the internal fabric strengthened. Uncle Sam won’t help you if he don’t need you that much.


<< Faisal Wrote: also fyi, u.s. car exports to japan are negligible as well. >>

-- Faisal once again shows off his blatant ignorance with glee. Japan was another major Asian country to benefit from American re-building, excessive loans efforts. However, in the case of Japan, the human resources were extensively developed along with it’s society having self-incorporated the basics of capitalism i.e competition (read Wealth and Poverty of Nations). The trade protection – in cars, consumer goods etc. was ACCEPTABLE to America as the policy was to contain communism. Now I hope you don’t need sources to see if America ever had a policy to contain communism? Do you? Well, go read a 8th grade book on world history. That should enlighten you plenty. : D


<< Faisal Wrote : ii. you implied in your post#78 that korea had below normal defense expenditure. yet you write in your post#88 that korea spent 15% of its budget on defense. are you implying that 15% is below normal. i can also give you the names of plenty of under developed countries that spent less than that on defense. can you please explain why these countries are under developed despite their governments spending less on defense than korea. >>


- - I think I already explained this to you in the last couple of posts that DETAILED that AMERICA WOULD BAIL OUT KOREA FINANCIALLY NO MATTER WHAT!!!! Read that again please. And America DID bail out Korea as the example of 1979/80 shows. The reliability of financial bail-outs is usually a green signal for giving out bad loans. And Korea as well as the ASEAN countries gave out plenty of bad loans. But I believe all this is too complex for you so I wont’ go into it anymore.


<< Faisal Wrote : iii. uncle sam had more troops in philippines than in korea. in fact philippines for a pretty long time was a colony of the u.s. if defensive support of u.s. is necessary for development, can you please explain why korea developed while philippines is a third world backwater like pakistan? >>

- One can argue that Philippines is like Pakistan. At best of times, America doesn’t provide it with much support other than to let them stay afloat. Secondly, Philippines doesn’t have the developed Human resource strength that Korea and Japan had. Yes, Faisal, human resources do matter. Under Musharaf despite the much touted doubling of education budget, the education sector continues to go down the drain. Pakistan has no credible human resources!


Again, you need to stop playing stupid. America doesn’t supply the same incentives for everyone.


Anyhow, again, it’s not about one dictator or two dictators. Or even about America. It’s about how a nation builds its foundations. 8% growth rates mean nothing at all – ABSOLUTELY nothing without foundations. The current government has ripped apart ALL foundations and built NOTHING in place. No credible education sector and no institutions!

But of course fauji-lovers like you will prefer being blind to the necessities of the basics!

Take an Econ 101 class please.

Zeena Ben: `Research is totally based on objectivity of subjective experimentations with lil evidence based interpretational rational with guidance of retrospective comparison leading the study design towards prospective data to be implemented for the progress. And thats what we have been tryin to tell you. Thanks`

That is the most profound statement ever on Chowk! Can you please explain it without the medical terminology for simple pituitary retarded folks like me?.. LOL ...