Bahu Virupaksha

Reply to US GAME PLAN IN THECAUCASUS in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote] think "in the interest of peace" Russia will have to stop treating former Soviet republics as if they were Russian vassals. [/quote][quote]Shouldn't you treat the Russian invasion of Georgia like the coalition invasion of Iraq?[/quote][quote] But the US was evil when we went into Iraq doing everything we could to avoid civilian casualties. [/quote] The US justification for invading Iraq was the alledgged WMDs that were never there and regime change in Iraq was just

US GAME PLAN IN THECAUCASUS in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The Georgian President Mikhail Saakashivili, US educated and unabashedly pro-NATO has bitten more than he can chew. By ordering his troops into the breakaway provice of Osettia and encouraging them to indulge in wanton war crimes in that region, the state of Georgia has invited international condemnation. Even George Bush could only request a return to status quo ante and the US State Department understood that Georgia has invited trouble for itself in the hope

Reply to Barack Obama: A long Days Journey into Night? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]It will be tough to elect a guy who shares the same name as the dictator of a regime we just toppled.[/quote][quote] And there I was thinking that Bill Clinton was the first black President[/quote] I think Toni Morrison has already explained that comment. Obama is a Christain and there is no point in fear mongering over a name. He is not responsible for his given name.

Reply to Science and Maths in Islamic Countries in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

An excellent piece. The real reason for the shadow of Islam falloing heavily onMathematics is thye fact that several jewish scholars escaped percecution by emigrating to Granada and even Sicily when it was under Umayad rule. The place value system as you quite correctly point out is an Indian innovation. There was a time when Islam was indeed the intellectual force to contend with:alas, now it is no longer the case.

Reply to Barack Obama: A long Days Journey into Night? in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]Obama is just another politician, a guy who wooed everyone with his stance against Big Oil and is not considering some offshore drilling[/quote][quote]I am totally blown by how some see Obama as simply making minor mistakes while McCain is bashed as some kind of war criminal for doing the same[/quote] McCain is not in the same league as Obama. Yes when Obama is the official candidate he has to pitch to the center of the political field and this means making compromises.</

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Welcome to JU. It is a nice place to blog and I have liked my association with this site.

Reply to Barack Obama: A long Days Journey into Night? in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]the fact that he basically thinks we are too stupid to air our tires or speak a foreign language. The man doesn't [/quote][quote]Obama is being treated better than others [/quote][quote]Third, the Hilton ad was a fun one, and shows that democrats (or more precisely liberals) have no sense of humor[/quote][quote]"I am not your regular kind of politician" BS is being seen for what it really is, BS. Barack is just another politician who has played his hand right to woo the country and the

Barack Obama: A long Days Journey into Night? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The campaign of Barack Obama is in trouble and everyone seems to understand it except the candidate and his team. Given the unpopularity of George II and the Iraq War, Obama should be poised for victory as the polls are less than 100 days away. Sure he enjoys a 5 point lead over Maccain but that lead is well within the margin of error and unless Barack Obama crosses the 8 to 10 point margin one cannot be sure of his victory. Of course, Barack Oba

Reply to The Israeli-Palestine Question in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Unfortunately we have evidence in History only of human actions. Even if the intentions of Arabs were evil, and Leauki seems convinced of Arab genocidal intentions, the dfact remains that they were never implemented. Only the Germans went ahead and created Dachau, Auschwits, Triblinka and a host of other extermination death camps. I cannot understand how a merely political difference between Arbs from the displaced territory of Palestins can be equated with the German inspired Holocaust.

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[quote]And if you ever fly to Jordan you might even notice that "Mein Kampf" is sold even at the airport. Yes, they despise Hitler, the Arabs do. No love there.[/quote] The Arabs may be anti Israel because of the politics of the region. But equating the Arabs with German anti semitism, is I think extremely wrong as German inspitred Holocaust was entirely the responsibility of the Germans and their allies. You are trying to dilute the horrific and unique nature of the Solah by blaming t

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I mwant to clear up a misconception. I am trying to be fair and I am not anti semetic in fact I have always said the the right of Israel,s existence is not negotiable. I am at the same time interested in seeing whteher there is a solution.n fact mauch of what I have said has been stated by Jimmy Carter in his book Peace not Apartheid. It is irrlelevant to the arugment but of all the people I admire most a fair number of them happen to be Jews. Dr G

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[quote]Actually, the revisionism is your denial of Arab attempts to exterminate Jews.[/quote] We should not allow ourselves to be carried away because what is happening in that region is tragic and of monumental propotions.If you do not believe me let surely you will believe David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel. In a conversation with Nahum Goldmann: "I do not understand your optimism...Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I wou

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Nation states are the real problem. There was a large meause of intra communam and inter communal harmony in the days before the rise of Arab states in the region. Now that spirit of friendship and harmony has evaporated leaving hatred and bitterness behind. Now the real challenge is to find peace and I feel that a single state solution may be a step forward. The Quartet is still debating and probably will not advocate a solution because as long as there is Arab-Israeli conflict the West has

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[quote]The lame excuse that "they are fellow muslims" are belied by the fact that "fellow muslims" are committing genocide, because some genuflect from the left and the others genuflect from the right[/quote] Islam sits uneasily in a world divided into nation states. Yje possibility of an Arab state was undermined after the defeat of the Ottomans in World War I, especially after OIL was discovered. The West, for its own purposes, advanced the claims of camel keepers like the House of S

Reply to The Israeli-Palestine Question in Current Events Stardock Forums

There are two different sequences at work in what Leuki writes: First, there have been irresponsible statments from Arab leaders and the President of Iran's statement needs to be condemned. Having said that we must remember that all the rhetoric from the Arabs have been reactive. They are reacting to the loss of land, history and memory and there is now a possiblity of a solution in thje form of a Israeli-Palestinian state. There is an academic journal called Genocide and H

Reply to The Israeli-Palestine Question in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Your racist remark about Jews being a "cross to bear" shows where you are coming from[/quote][quote] The Holocaust was in Europe, but the Palestinian Arab's attempt to do the same in "Palestine" happened in the middle east, as did Arab persecution of Jews and other minorities in Arab countries[/quote] [quote]tried to do what the Germans did.[/quote] This is an original: not even the most rabid Istraeli fundamentalist has ever sais so badly that the Arabs have tr

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[quote]Why does the dream of us all living together never include live Jews[/quote ][]Your idea is not new, it has merely been shown not to work.[/quote What we need is for the Arabs to face their history and come to the conclusion that it was WRONG to try to exterminate middle-eastern Jews, not for Jews to apologise for something they never did and never tried to do[/quote] The Arabs had nothing to do with the Holocaust. It was perpetrated by Germnasns in Europe and as D

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[quote] can tell you that I won't support the "obvious solution"; although when Hassan Nasrallah called on all the Jews in the world to assemble in northern Israel so he could kill them all, I did go to northern Israel and had I not been evacuated, the "obvious solution" would have allowed me to find peace. [/quote] When History clashes with personal biography we sometimes feel diffident. My concwern is only to show that the two state solution may not be viable and there is need for fr

The Israeli-Palestine Question in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The peace in the middle east seems to be extremely difficult because both Israel and Palestine are locked in a state of mutual recrimination: peace with justice means that the existing paradigm for ordering the relations between the two societies has to be reconsidered. The Ashkenazi elite from eastern Europe and Poland that is essentially the ruling aristocracy of Israel has dominated the politics of Israel since 1949 and given its long association with Zioni

Reply to The G8 is a farce. in International Stardock Forums

The G-8 is a mulitaleral organisation and the USA needs the G-8 in order to create a consensus on a whole range of issues not just Darfur. You seem to be outraged at what is happening in Darfur, but the slaughter there does not threaten any of the major countries and hence will go on.

Oxyrhynchos: History from a garbage heap in Ancient JoeUser Forums

Nearly a century back two young scholars from Oxford University, B P Grenfell and A S Hunt set out to excavate a site on the banks of the Nile in Egypt at a time when the tensions between the French and the British over the status of Egypt was particularly accute. Napoleon had already discovered the antiquities of Egypt and had published them in 11 volumes and Joseph Champillon had read the Rosetta's stone thereby unlockin

Reply to THe Childhood home of George Washington Discovered in Virginia in US Civil War Stardock Forums

[quote]But Bahu, wrong category. The US Civil war was 1861-1865. Washington was dead over 60 years when it was fought. He was the leader during the Revolutionary War (or the war of insurrection as the English call it). [/quote] I know, but the appropriate category on the JU menu did not open and hence this.

THe Childhood home of George Washington Discovered in Virginia in US Civil War JoeUser Forums

<img id="photoMain" src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080702/capt.cfad7f06c2814427999f38eae03b5779.washington_s_house_wx107.jpg?x=397&y=345&sig=7NSCy4pOQuRy3T8flNG43w--" alt="This undated image provided by National Ge

Bush and the end game in Iraq in International JoeUser Forums

While the two presidential candidates battle each other a quiet game is being played out in Iraq. Some may say that the gambit currently undeerway is the end game as far as Iraq is concerned, others may say that it is the beginning of a new phase in US occupation of Iraq. The UN security council resolution by which the "coalition of the willing" operates in Iraq expires in Cecemer 2008 and US diplomats and the Bush Administration even in the dying days of its Presidency is preparing the groun

Reply to OBAMA, ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST in Politics Stardock Forums

USA is an important power in world politics and one hope it will throw the weight of its considerable influence on the side of peace and stability. Israel cannot be gfiven veto power over US policies in the region and therefore the road to peace as I have said earlier, like Pauls passes through Damascus.