Comments on: Mumbai / Bombay Attacks

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:34:27 +0000

and I was talking about English-language media and how one situation is described as “horrific”, and deaths somewhere else are barely mentioned. I didn’t mention Jews either.

What’s more, understanding the background to something is not the same as justifying murder – no matter which side is committing it.

By: stleger norma

stleger norma — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:22:37 +0000

randian, i think you might need to take a raincheck on your perceptions here, or else reread all the posts, or possibly aquaint yourself with what is happening in the world.
i definitly never mentioned “westerners” or “jews” extremism and fanatacism is not exclusive to any race or religion

By: randian

randian — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:29:04 +0000

How am I being ridiculous? Half the guys posting here are shoving out excuses for the terrorists to attack Westerners and Jews.

That is a ‘kill us, we deserve it’ attitude.

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:15:04 +0000

“I love the Ã¢â‚¬Ëœkill us we deserve itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ attitude”

Don’t be ridiculous.

By: randian

randian — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:10:11 +0000

I love the ‘kill us we deserve it’ attitude of Westerners nowadays. Its political correctness gone mad.

By: C'est La Craic

C'est La Craic — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:16:47 +0000

As regards Afghanistans heroin production, it is very interesting note the figures before and after american invasion. The Taliban had cut the production to the point where it was at 20%.
Now it could be argued that rebels are growing it again to finance arms buying but let us not forget the CIA’s record in counties of drug production. Remember Contras or the ‘air america’ situation in Vietnam where the CIA was actually funding the Viet Cong through drugs buys. The CIA is intricatly linked to Afghanistan because of it’s support of Bin Laden and the mujahideen during the Russian occupation. Hell, the word Al Qaida is arabic for ‘the base’ or the CIA database containing the information on mujahideen trained by the CIA (including Bin Laden).

On the subject of books, might I recomend John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. After reading it, I say the Corrib gasline in a completly new light. I understood how we managed to give away the kitchen sink and perhaps the why aswell.

By: Bock

Bock — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:07:42 +0000

That's a great book. It's on the shelf in front of me as we speak. I also recommend Fisk's Pity the Nation and Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks. While you're at it, have a read of Heroes by Jon Pilger. In the fiction department, you could do worse than to read Midnight's Children and Shame by Salman Rushdie.

By: stleger norma

stleger norma — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:02:33 +0000

we are all subject to the vagaries of news coverage and the very powerful social media, it is unlikely that the name “raj thakary” will even be mentioned in news coverage in the coming months.
what i wrote earlier is very much a “bare bones” picture, and of course the attacks are seen as “unprovoked” because basically thats what they are in global perception, the areas of mumbai and chennai are extremly complex, the links from incident to incident will not be joined.
i’m sure there are many reasons the coverage in iraq and afghanistan no longer recieve daily coverage, but apparantly barack obama has promised more troops for afghanistan, where incidentally it is reported 90% of the worlds heroine is being exported from.
In iraq, the press focus on the “awakening council”, who were initially formed to pay former sunni insurgents not to kill americans and iraquis, but to join the “ac” and be ready to crush any reanimation of the shiit mahdi army.
politics are frozen in iraq, but there is now a mountain of oil money which ultimatly will lead to further bloodshed.
on the positive side, of app 5 million people who fled their homes, statistics claim one sixth have returned.
it is also claimed that many ex militia have returned to more normal lives.
one book i would highly recommend is “the great war for civilisation” by robert fisk….but it did take me a year to read it

By: V

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:44:05 +0000

Thanks Bock, no need to watch the news then..

By: Bock

Bock — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:12:41 +0000

I think most of the people killed in Bombay were Indian and probably not Christian, but it’s true there’s little coverage of the daily murders in Iraq and none at all of the bombings in the tribal areas.