US Commando Strike in Waziristan

Sorry, not in the US

Bubba, youa re right, i am no tin NY. I am in NYC. Our world works very different.

Re: # 161

bubba mian,

... give me a break ! ..... all i want is some temporary relief - as soon as the market hits 14K again i am pulling out and investing in tulip bulbs and life insurance companies catering to suicide bombers

Re: # 157 Posted by chaltahai on September 8, 2008 6:38:14 am

[....You don't change urself with urself, buddhu!]

Obviously you are not in the US, where they sell tons of self-help books on change. It all depends on what kind of change one wants, and who can deliver it. McCain can, and Obama can not.

This is what I got from a friend's e-mail, and it makes perfect sense.

You couldn't get a job at McDonalds and become district manager after 143 days of experience.

You couldn't become chief of surgery after 143 days of experience of being a surgeon.

You couldn't get a job as a teacher and be the superintendent after 143 days of experience.

You couldn't join the military and become a colonel after a 143 days of experience.

You couldn't get a job as a reporter and become the nightly news anchor after 143 days of experience.

BUT....

From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working. After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander in Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days.

AND, strangely, a large sector of the American public is okay with this and campaigning for him. We wouldn't accept this in our own line of work, yet some are okay with this for the President of the United States of America ? Come on folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol !

Re: # 152 Posted by hamidm2 on September 8, 2008 4:50:03 am

hamid mian,

[..U.S. stock futures jumped more than 2 percent. ]

what huge rally? They lost 3% on Friday Sept. 5, and they can't even recover that loss. Nobody around here considers this as good for the capitalist system. One guy said all we need now is the hammer and sickle. US govt. is wrong to interfere in the real estate market. They tell more hell is yet to come in 1Q09, when the election is long over with.

Re: # 156 Posted by hamidm2 on September 8, 2008 6:20:16 am

hamid mian,

On paki politics, you always seem to lump the kashmiris and punjabi trouble makers into one so-called unwashed masses. Why can't you go much deeper? and identify who are these people?

They are those punjabis who support pml-N, JI and to a certain extent Imran Khan. Personally, I would want them to be completely marginalized in the Punjab government. These people are nothing but trouble for civilized paki population.

punjabi and civilized!!!! is it oxymoron?

hamidm: i am not sure what you mean by the "vast majority of mohammedans in pakistan" support terrorists, when in elections these "vast majority of mohammedans in pakistan" vote for the mainstream parties that promise things like "roti, kapra aur makan" or "rule of the law" and not 72 virgins.

"drill, baby, drill"!! :-)

#157 thanks for your views.

If it wasn't the army....it would have been the feudals. What is this silliness of blaming only 50% of the dysfunctional leadership in the country?

Tahmed yaar, did you read the times magazine article yesterday. The drumbeats are growing all around you, the economy is teetering over an abyss, US is now bombing everyday, the GAO is asking for accounts on the $10B....inflation on soft goods is running rampant....and you are worrying about getting the old judiciary to be re-instated. That is like the republicans saying their candidate is a change agent while they have been running the country for the last 8 year. You don't change urself with urself, buddhu!

Re: # 153

tahmed mian,

.... i partially agree with you ........ the army, isi and the other goons in khaki played their role in strengthening the local taliban but the main culprits are the unwashed masses ..... these unwashed masses, under the influence of the bedouin moon god and brainwashed by the mullah, supported them and still continue to support them ...... the vast majority of the mohammedans in pakistan still support these wild-eyed jihadis and regardless of who is in power, they will have to step very carefully ...... the current policy seems to be hit them, let the americans kill them, deny deny and deny and then call in the american ambassador to the foreign office for samosas and chai ...... it is a good policy and it should work ...

So another day....another bombing by the US in FATA. Are we going to keep this article as a sticky...or will there be new articles every day on each bombing?

second para. should be "The reason they grew in strength during your uncle musharraf's eight years is because they were..surprise!..like poppy plants from musharraf's pov. That is, useful to cultivate in order to collect "revenue" from a clueless bush administration and thus remain in power."

(i.e. the "not" should not be there).

#151 hamidm: you are right that tribesmen's military capacity is highly overrated - not because they are "cowards" (which is a mere generalization that is as meaningless as bulleye's opposite generalizations concerning their superpowers that he is in awe), but because they lack a genuine cause (which in turn translates into broad-based public support) of the kind guerilla movements need in order to succeed.

The reason they grew in strength during your uncle musharraf's eight years is not because they were..surprise!..like poppy plants from musharraf's pov. That is, useful to cultivate in order to collect "revenue" from a clueless bush administration and thus remain in power.

bubba mian,

this is all i was hoping for:

NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. stock futures pointed to a huge rally Monday as investors rushed to lay bets on a broad economic recovery following the weekend announcement that the U.S. government plans to bail out mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. U.S. stock futures jumped more than 2 percent.

Re: # 144

alpha mian,

.... the trouble making capabilities of the smelly tribesmen who live in caves and sleep with domestic animals are highly overated ..... they are a primitive people who can manage a few car bombs in pindi and lahore but here is not a whole lot they can do beyond that ..... on top of that they are a bunch of cowards who will turn on their own mother if the tide turns against them ...... if the paki forces was serious about taking care of them they can be wiped out in a couple of months ........ i see this as a great opportunity to exterminate this disease once and for all ..... i still think starting a war with india is the quickest way to get rid of them - that way we can kill two bad birds with one stone

i think that the much publicised sectarian killings in parachinar whose pics are being circulated on the net could be a british intelligence conspiracy to make muslims fight muslims