The Neocon Resurgence and Israel Lebenon Crisis

Today I have found an intersesting piece in "The Hindu" about Israel-Lebenon war.Every one knows Israel is a program sponsored by US. And almost all the US media is strongly biased towards Israel.According to them Israel is a civilized society and they would not do cheap tactics like extraditions which they are ascribing to Hizbollah.I am not going to state Hizbollah is a legitimate troupe.But we can't deny the fact that it's a very much accepted wing in Lebenon. It has a military wing as well as a political wing.

All these current problems happened due to the kidnapping of Israel soldiers buy Hezbollah.But nobody in US seems to be aware about the facts that lead Hezbollah to do so. According to Hezbollah sources,they are forced to do so as a bargain tactic to release the Lebenese women and kids from the Israel prisons. When somebody raised this point,I have seen comments from Americans in US forums alleging these women and kids as supporters of terrorism.

In this context the article which was originally published in gaurdian will be worth a read.
Have a look ..

ONCE AGAIN the Bush administration is floating on a wave of euphoria. Israel's offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon has liberated the utopian strain of neoconservatism that had been traduced by Iraq's sectarian civil war. And Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has propelled herself forward as chief cheerleader. "What we're seeing here," she said, "are the birth pangs of a new Middle East." At every press conference she repeats the phrase "a new Middle East" as though its incantation is magical.

Her jaunt to the region is intended to lend the appearance of diplomacy in order to forestall it. As explained to me by several senior State Department officials, Ms. Rice is entranced by a new "domino theory": Israel's attacks will demolish Hizbollah; the Lebanese will blame Hizbollah and destroy its influence; and the backlash will extend to Hamas, which will collapse. From the administration's point of view, this is a proxy war with Iran (and Syria) that will inexplicably help turn around Iraq. "We will prevail," Ms. Rice says.

The administration has traditionally engaged in threat conflation — Al-Qaeda with Saddam Hussein, North Korea and Iran in "the axis of evil," and now implicitly the Shia Hizbollah with the Sunni Iraqi insurgency. By asserting "we" before "will prevail," Ms. Rice is engaging in national interest conflation.

This week has seen the publication of Fiasco, by Thomas Ricks, the military correspondent of The Washington Post, devastating in its factual deconstruction. The Iraqi invasion, he writes, was "based on perhaps the worst war plan in American history." The policy-making at the Pentagon was a "black hole," and resistance by the staff of the joint chiefs to disinformation linking Iraq to 9/11 was dismissed. After the absence of a plan for post-war Iraq, blunder upon blunder fostered the insurgency.

In one of its most unintentionally ironic curiosities, the Bush White House has created an Office of Lessons Learned. But the thinking that made possible the catastrophe in Iraq is not a subject of this office. The delusional mindset went underground only to surface through the crack of the current crisis.

There are no lessons learned about the blowback from Iraq; about Iraq's condemnation of Israel and its sympathy for Hizbollah; or about the U.S. unwillingness to deal with the Palestinian Authority that made inevitable the rise of Hamas; or the counter-productive repudiation of direct contact with Syria and Iran.

Indeed, Ms. Rice is ushering in "a new Middle East," one in which the U.S. is distrusted and even hated by traditional Arab allies, and its ability to restrain Israel while negotiating on behalf of its security is relinquished and diminished. —

Another sunday

Yet another sunday.Today I have some plans in my mind.I plan to go for a movie.Movie has not been fixed yet,but surely we'll go for one.
Then I have to spend some more time in the office. Just to verify the things. Nobody would be there in the office .Yes, House keeping people would be doing their works as if they don't have any Sunday . Even we can see some very young boys who would be on their early teens(or less than that?) working with them for feeding their stomach . The other face of the largest democracy !!...Oh the topic is changing . Let's have a break.

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You need time for this..And more over you need to know good English....

It's Sunday

Yeah.It's sunday today .A nice day when we can take a short sabbatical from the official works . From morning onwards I was thinking about my sunday plans . I was alone in the room since all my colleagues went to their hometown as if to make sure that everything goes fine in their state without their presence.

Now time is 6.15 in the evening .My lazy mind didn't allow me to get up from the bed before 12 P.M. I haven't done any productive work so far.So I thought why can't I blog for some time . May be after this I can go back to my works.

Oh..regarding works,I have to clean up my room,Have to wash my clothes (I could have given it to doby(not thoby..he's a nice friend) ,but I thought I might be able to go home this weekend .Then I have to go to the town for some purpose,have to buy some things.should go to temple if time is there .....then..

Again my lazy mind(have to blame some one.right?) has started saying... oh,If you are thinking about works ,you can find so much of works ,which needs to be done.

So it's better to go back and curl under the bed sheet without uttering a single word about the duties.

Now,what should I do ?. Can I make my mind feel bad ?

Quote for the day

From Wikipedia:

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan strongly opposed the partition of India. While the Red Shirts were willing to work with Indian politicians, some Pashtuns desired independence from both India and the newly created state of Pakistan following the departure of the British. The Congress party under refused last ditch compromises like the Cabinet mission plan and Gandhi's suggestion to offer the Prime Ministership to Jinnah. As a result Bacha Khan and his followers felt a sense of betrayal by both Pakistan and India. Bacha Khan's last words to Gandhi and his erstwhile allies in the Congress party were: You have thrown us to the wolves.

When given a choice between Pakistan and India, most voters chose Pakistan by a margin of 9 to 1 in 1947. A loya jirga in the Tribal Areas garnered a similar result as most preferred to become part of Pakistan.

In February 1948, Khan took the oath of allegiance to the new nation of Pakistan. Shortly afterwards he addressed the Pakistan constituent assembly and announced his support for Pakistan, while at the same time his Khudai Khidmatgar movement pledged allegiance to Pakistan and severed all links to the Congress Party.

In his speech to the assembly he said:

"Whenever I had an opportunity to address the people in different parts of our province, I told them clearly that indeed, I was of the opinion that India should not be divided because today in India we have witnessed the result. Thousands and thousands of young and old, children, men, and women were massacred and ruined. But now that the division is an accomplished fact, the dispute is over?. " I delivered many speeches against the division of India, but the question is: has anybody listened to me? You may hold any opinion about me, but I am not a man of destruction but of construction. If you study my life, you will find that I devoted it to the welfare of our country?. We have proclaimed that if the Government of Pakistan would work for our people and our country the Khudai Khidmatgars would be with them. I repeat that I am not for the destruction of Pakistan. In destruction lies no good. "Neither Hindus nor Muslims, nor the Frontier, not Punjab, Bengal or Sindh stands to gain from it. There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destruction. If any constructive programme is before you, if you want to do something constructive for our people, not in theory, but in practice, I declare before this House that I and my people are at your service?.."

Pak ISI hands on Mumbai 11/7

Forty-eight hours after bombs ripped through Mumbai, the needle pointed to Pakistan. Intelligence agencies on Thursday confirmed that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was the “mastermind” of the blasts that killed about 200 people.

The Mumbai Police, meanwhile, identified the trio who planned and executed 11/7: Rahil, Zahibuddin Ansari and Faiyaz, linked to the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) and the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Of them, Rahil had reportedly made an abortive bid to trigger a blast at Byculla railway station on March 11 — the eve of the anniversary of the 1993 Bombay blasts.

The agencies, which briefed National Security Adviser MK Narayanan and Cabinet Secretary BK Chaturvedi, said the blueprint for Tuesday’s blasts was made by the ISI while the “plan” was executed by “local Indian operatives”.

A senior intelligence officer said the synchronised explosions had the “hallmark” of an ISI operation. Militants operating in Kashmir were not capable of such meticulous planning and could only carry out fidayeen attacks or plant bombs in crowded places like markets.

“A lot of planning went into the blasts. This is typical of an ISI operation, as was revealed during the 1993 Bombay blasts,” said an officer.

Rahil, Ansari and Faiyaz could be the local operatives the intelligence agencies hinted at. Mumbai Police Commissioner AN Roy told HT: “We’re looking for Rahil, Ansari and Faiyaz who orchestrated the seven blasts.” Roy said Rahil, “a SIMI old-timer”, had been leading a LeT module, while Ansari and Faiyaz were wanted in the Aurangabad explosives-seizure case.

KP Raghuvanshi, chief of the Mumbai Police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), said Ansari and Faiyaz had brought in the RDX from Pakistan. Though the ATS arrested 16 operatives from Ansari’s module, he and Faiyaz gave the police the slip. Apparently, the module was receiving instructions from Junaid, reportedly ISI’s operations chief for India.

The police said the blasts could have been in retaliation of Gujarat riots

Source : Hindustan Times