Script.
George Mitchell's mission to Damascus is part of the script by the White House Politburo to construct an appeasement to Tehran. The plan was put in place after POTUS visit to Riyadh in June. The next step is to offer the criminal Assad regime in Damascus a return of the U.S. ambassador. The White House plan is advanced. The confusion is how to negotiate with Tehran after the usurper Ahmadinejad regime stands as discredited. Tehran source from the Diaspora reports that the usurper Ahmadinejad is consolidating the security forces. Unconfirmed report that the head of the Ministry of Information and Security (the secret police) has been replaced by the head of the Basiji, the para military brownshirts. The Tehran regime is brittle, turbulent, perilous, unrepentant, adamant, sinister.
Jerusalem Watches.
Major Jerusalem source points to irregular activities in Bekaa by a now re-armed Hizballah, which operates freely while the UN supervised watchdogs look the other way. The concern is that Tehran needs to relieve the twinned pressures of the resistance in the streets and the UN sanctions. A blantant and effective diversion would be Hizballah rocketing of northern Israel. Nothing in Gaza has been rebuilt since the conflict December and January. However Hamas is fully re-armed with short and long range rockets. Jerusalem source points to continuing maneuvers by the IDF and IAAF and the Israeli Navy. Preparations for several scenarios continue.
We all are beggars. Some beg for food; some for forgiveness. Some beg for recognition; some beg to differ. In the strictest sense only the first of these is legitimate because, to those begging for food, all else is moot.
If a gun were held to our heads, most of us would beg for our lives – like a dog. Time is a gun, while the bullet inside it is death. Death is released at the moment of our birth. It follows us wherever we might go. When the time is right, it finds us wherever we might hide.
Buddhist monks are said to have just one possession: a cup. With it they beg for their daily bread. Unlike Hindus, the monks adhere to no strict set of dietary rules; they eat whatever they are given. (Remember, the Buddha is said to have died of food poisoning.) Of late though, some, dressed conspicuously in their saffron robes, can be seen among the tourists (at Washington’s Cherry Blossom Festival, for example), sporting sun glasses, cameras and cell phones; donated, no doubt, by the insistent disciples of a faith whose essence they do not yet understand. Being humble by nature, the monks accept these gifts, knowing that they can be readily exchanged for something that will not burden the soul.
No one wants to be seen begging, though it is the hallmark of our (human) condition. Therefore, diversions abound. Outright aggression is always effective; to get a people to yield and say, “We are blinded; we see nothing. God is great!”
In Hinduism, from which Buddhism derives, no clear distinction can be drawn between the gods, men and animals. All these exist as one, in one smooth, natural curve from the highest down to the lowest; hence, all life being sacred. Western visitors to India often tend to feel snuggly superior, boasting of ever higher living standards. These, however, represent a meaningless measure in that it is based solely on the number of things owned; and each possession limits one’s freedom and, more importantly, one’s awareness by just that much.
There is indeed tremendous suffering among the poor of India; hunger and disease have left their indelible mark on the wasted bodies of millions. But similar blights exist in the West; only there they are emotional, psychological and spiritual in nature – well removed from the primary senses, but real and painful nonetheless. And almost no one is seen begging outright.
I vow that from here on in I will forego reading any news reports about Sarah Palin. I, like most Americans, have no stomach for torture. Palin can expect to be tortured by the media; she will be savaged without mercy. The attacks on her will not be unlike what the Taliban has in store for the American soldiers they manage to capture; or what Israeli soldiers can expect at the hands of Hezbollah. The media will attempt to defile her. As the incorrigible libs they are, they will have forsworn the use of graphic violence.
The Taliban and Hezbollah are not yet that sophisticated. Yet, the media’s hatred for Palin (and all that she stands for) is the same as the Taliban’s hatred for Americans or Hezbollah’s hatred for Jews. The American media and Islamic extremists are the same in the intensity of their hatred. Both aim to torture, defile and ultimately dance in the bone yard where their victims are buried in shallowest of graves.
Bush left office a despised and broken man. The media here decides who lives or dies; as does the Taliban there. Begging won’t help because neither the Taliban/Hezbollah/Hamas nor the American media has a soul.
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Damascus! Meet you in Damascus! I'll get there before you! Then what will I do?
Damascus praises resistance; declares it as a requirement for freedom; the resistance must stand against oppressor! Damascus says it and doesn't make a distinction>>> A Just Resistance
Damascus rising? Teheran disappearing?
Appeasement or a China Card? Kissinger Split China away from the Soviet Union, not creating an ally, but two enemies who no longer trusted each other.
With the Assistance of Jordan and the Kingdom, we may cleave Syria away from Iran.
More likely to fail, Noone in 1600 and foggy bottom is Henry Kissinger. Must have been a stab in the back to Hillary.
I agree, Sapi. Damascus lays claims to cultural center and affirms Arab continuity.
Those Persians? Hmm, what does one do with the Persians?
Why are Persians interfering in Arab affairs? Damascus knows.
Resistance to an oppressor is an imperative... Damascus knows.
Wonderfully, Teheran supplants Jerusalem as the bone of contention.
The Arab press is consistently castigating the regime in Teheran. The independent Arab nations are going on record as to their dismay with the tactics of repression being employed by the theocracy, which is against Islam.
Teheran Thursday... July 30 Gregorian. Green banners and green victory?
*Take heart beautiful and dear people! Be brave and resist the oppression of the ones dressed in black who are bland and beneath any one of you and not worthy of consideration anymore. Bring the color spectrum back into your countenance!!*
*Persia is Yours... Not Theirs and You are a Great People who can be Restored to be a Great Nation! The World is with YOU!!*
*MOURN*