As I look at and watch what is happening in Washington these days, I have to wonder whether we are living in America as envisioned by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Mason and Benjamin Franklin and the founding fathers who laid the corner stones for the emerging democracy or we are living in a country on a course of self destruct from within. Read the rest of this entry »
The views I express here may offend some, but I will say it any way. I was one of the millions in Iraq and around the Arab world who were very happy and celebrated the capture of Saddam Hussein on 14 December 2003 and was even happier when he was hanged on 30 December 2006. The only regret I have is that it took a foreign invasion and for the wrong reasons to bring down Saddam and his regime. One has to wonder what kind of Iraq we will have today if the people of Iraq did what the people of Tunisia and Egypt did? And if the Iraqi Army did what the Egyptian and Tunisian armies did when they took the side of the people, avoiding all the humiliations, the shame it brought upon itself, when it chose to side with a failed leader who failed the army before failing the people. Just imagine the millions of lives that could have been saved, the hundred of billions wasted on a war that not only destroyed Iraq but failed to rebuild it and failed to usher in a new democratic, transparent and accountable government, turning Iraq into a failed state like it was under Saddam. Read the rest of this entry »
No need to talk about Israel’s savage ad criminal occupation, a topic I will continue to address and talk about. Here I am addressing what is going on in Gaza. I tried to be “politically correct” but watching what is going on in Gaza I chose to be straightforward. The political and military leadership of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are reckless and stupid. Reckless with the lives of the people of Gaza, holding 1.5 million hostage to stupid, incompetent, inept and unqualified operational leadership of Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigade and Al-Quds Brigade. Watching these masked young men talk as if they are out to destroy Israel and threatening Israel with retaliations that makes the “earth shake” qualify these people and the spokesman “Abu-Obeidah” to be locked up in mental institutions danger to themselves and the millions around them. Where is the hell Hamas political leadership from all of this? And why it allowed reckless field commanders to run loose? We are sick and tired from the military and political rhetoric out of Gaza. Read the rest of this entry »
The PLO as an organization and leadership are like an old useless car, the only place for it is the junkyard of history. There is nothing there worth fixing. It was used to transport the leadership to richness and fame, but was never used to carry and transport people from exile and occupation to liberation and building a modern nation state. The PLO and its leadership from Arafat to Abbas failed at every thing it set out to do and continues to fail the people. Read the rest of this entry »
NeoCons and conservative intellectual advocates of the Reagan Doctrine such as columnist Charles Krauthammer, ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick, Richard Perle and many others should always remember that they and the late president Ronald Reagan are the ones who re-invented, supported, financed and armed modern “jihad” after it has been dead and dormant for over 700 years. Read the rest of this entry »
