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'US should ask Pak to account for proliferated N-material'
Or, Clinton's Crimes Come Home To Haunt Us!
'US should ask Pak to account for proliferated N-material'
Israel for industrial coalitions with India, US
WSJ, Feb. 18, 2004: We've not yet seen all the fallout from Pakistan's nuclear proliferation.
Karl: I think one of President Bush's
most interesting characteristics has been his unwillingness to blow the whistle
on Bill Clinton. Clinton was and is a immoral pervert whose behavior not
only put this country at risk, but put it in deep danger that we are only now
discovering. While he was concerned about Monica, people like Musharraf,
China, Libya, North Korea, Iraq and others were moving on the path of WMD and proliferating nuclear materials.
The one major mistake Bush is making, I think, is his willingness to pretend to forget the misdeeds of the Clinton era. "Forgetting" is not an effective remedy -- confession is.
See an article about Clinton HERE, and then browse around for more such pages on that web site, the happiness web site.
During the 1990's, while the Democrats were cutting our defense system, and trying to dismantle the CIA, our enemies were gathering strength.
I personally believe that Clinton's immorality is the proximate cause of many of today's very serious problems. Those who voted for Clinton, and continued to justify his behavior have been caught with a moral transgression of their own -- of great magnitude. It is the nature of such a transgression that the person justifies his own transgression, and repeats them in order to make his earlier behavior look "correct." So, we see the tremendous importance of a "role model." Millions of Americans, and others, took their clue for behavior from Clinton, copied it, now find that this was a transgression of the common sense moral code that governs all of humanity, whether recognized or not -- and they can only now be critical of those who have pointed out the transgression. This is the way these things work.
Every time anyone makes any remark about Bush's moral leadership that serves to remind these transgressors of their own sins, and increases their hatred of Bush all the more. HERE is the missing explanation of the current spate of "Bush Hatred" in our society. News commentators very often comment on this, but have not yet stumbled on the true cause. That cause is here -- it is a matter of morals.
This is hatred of Bush only as he is a symbol for the continual reminder to these acts of their transgressions.
Their hatred would, of course, carry over to a hatred of everything he stands for, particularly including the war on terror and the liberation of Iraq -- events which they oppose (cautiously in some cases).
There is a solution to all this, but it means that those who have expressed their hatred of Bush, and their denial of the importance of the war on terror -- those are eventually going to have to confront their own transgressions and confess their sins. It won't be easy!
These are the people who will shrill statements of illogic -- because they are, unfortunately for them, of such lower awareness of reality that they cannot but suffer greatly from just that. CLICK HERE for more on this deadened sense of both morality and awareness.
On Bush's responsibility regards the below? Well, he may have hoped for a more simple war, where he could count up the good points and the bad points, and conclude that Pakistan was more helpful to us if we treat them "well." But, that "counting up" is affected by various personalities from high places who make public utterances that push things one way or another.
This could all be just a means of putting more pressure on Musharraf to find the bad guys in Pakistan. International diplomacy is a puzzle within a secret, etc., as Churchill said.
The Israeli-India-US coalition can
certainly, as Babu has pointed out,
become the dominant power block on the
planet -- Russia, Germany and France have enough of their own moral corruption
in their un-confessed background to be able to come to this table with clean hands.
The targets for terror have been Israel, for many years, India, also for many years in Kashmir, even if not much noticed in the Western Press, and the US, finally with its own 9/11 wake up call.
This coalition will become more and more obvious as years go by. It is a matter of morality, not geography or culture. The tremendous number and availability of workers in India suggests that it will be the major economic benefactor of this coalition. The brilliant survival instincts of Israel, and the high technical knowledge there mean many Israeli businesses opening up India, and the US, with its moribund moral morass, will probably mostly be the financial backer of these arrangements since SOME of Wall Street can still see clearly even if MOST of Main Street cannot.
Main street is where democracy finds the votes. Wall Street is not a democracy, but a "power system" were dollars are the votes. Some of those money votes, on Wall Street, are badly flawed in their morals, but they will also have such low awareness that they will be looking to Russia, Germany and maybe even France for partnerships. The MORAL MONEY on Wall Street will acknowledge the US-Israeli-India coalition -- and contribute to it -- and profit from it.
If I were a young American man, wanting to make my fortune in this new era, I would look to alliances with Israel and India. That is where the real economic growth will be -- more in India than anywhere for some years.
With India's great spiritual inheritance, it just may be that India will lead us into the new era spiritually also? Even if spirituality started in the East, and got scientific in the West, it is still the moral morass in the West that prevents the further spread of the new era of morality and spirituality in the West. It is time for India to step up to the plate as a leader in both economics and spirituality!
'US should ask Pak to account for proliferated N-material'
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Israel for industrial coalitions with India, US
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Press Trust of India Hertzliya (Israel), February 18, 2004 |
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greater cooperation between India, Israel and the US, Israeli Deputy Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert has proposed the setting up a "trilateral fund" to
stimulate, promote and support industrial research and development for
mutual benefit. The three countries need to "work out coalitions" and to formulate plans to "build upon the advantages in the hi-tech sector", he said at a trilateral conference to strengthen the 'strategic triad' on Tuesday. The US and Israel already have a binational fund, commonly referred to as BIRD Foundation, and Israel had earlier suggested setting up a similar fund to boost Indo-Israeli cooperation during the visit of Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley to Israel last month. Describing New Delhi as a "formidable power" and its relations with Israel "as one of the greatest assets", Olmert said "India was high on Israel's priority" and is an "emerging skilled manpower centre dominating the high-tech". With Israel and the US sharing similar expertise, "a constructive cooperation between the three countries would work in the interest of each one of us", he said at the conference jointly organised by Washington based think tank Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)and The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. "Being on the common side of terror will help realise this goal", Olmert said, adding, "India has a better understanding of the situation in which we live". |
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THE ISLAMIC BOMB
Abdul Qadeer Khan
We've not yet seen all the fallout from Pakistan's nuclear proliferation.
BY BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:01 a.m.
PARIS--We observed the Abdul Qadeer Khan
affair, the incredible story of this Pakistani nuclear scientist who delivered
over 15 years--freely and with impunity--his most sensitive secrets to Libya,
Iran and North Korea. Then we learned that President Musharraf in person, after
an interview from which little or nothing has been divulged, ended up granting
Khan his "pardon." Case closed? End of story? That's what the American
administration, falling oddly in step with the official Pakistani doctrine,
would have us believe. But knowing something of the case--and being the first
French observer, to my knowledge, to have tried to alert public opinion to the
extreme gravity of the situation--I believe that we are only at the very
beginning this story.
Far from ending on Sept. 11, 2001--the day, we are told, on which "the world changed"--this terrifying nuclear traffic continued until well after: A last trip to Pyongyang, his thirteenth, was made in June 2002 by the good doctor Khan; not to mention the ship inspected last August in the Mediterranean, transporting elements of a future nuclear plant to Libya. The eyes of the world, emulating the eyes of America, were fixed on Baghdad, while the tentacles of nuclear proliferation were being extended from Karachi.
We will soon learn that far from being the overexcited, but in the end isolated, "Dr. Strangelove" that most of the press has described, Khan was at the center of an immense network, an incredibly dense web. There were Dubai front companies, meetings in Casablanca and Istanbul with Iranian colleagues, complicities in Germany and Holland, Malaysian and Philippine agents, and detours through Sri Lanka, with Chinese and London connections--a world of crime and dirty war that the West, mired in a big game that is beginning to get ahead of it, has so blithely allowed to develop.
We will find that, since Pakistan is steered by the iron hand of its secret service and its army, it is inconceivable that Khan operated alone without orders or cover. We will understand more precisely that we cannot repeat without contradiction that, on the one hand, the Pakistani nuclear arsenal is under control, and that not a warhead can budge without the authorities' knowledge, and, on the other, that Khan was acting alone, working on his own account, with no official connivance. To put it simply and disconcertingly: Pakistan's nuclear weapons need to be secured. They cannot--will not--be secured by Pakistan alone.
We will come back to Gen. Musharraf--and Pakistan being what it is, we will come back also to other generals and ex-generals, such as Mirza Aslam Beg and Jehangir Karamat, both former army chiefs of staff. But we must not shift our gaze from the president himself, whose knowledge of Khan's dark machinations no one in Islamabad doubts, and who, at the very moment of his confounding, celebrated Khan once more as a "hero." What does Khan know of what Gen. Musharraf knows? And what does Khan's daughter, Dina, who announced in London that she has suitcases of compromising files, know?
And at last, sooner or later, we will come to the real secret: that of al Qaeda; and of Khan's links to Lashkar-e-Toiba, the fundamentalist terrorist group at the heart of al Qaeda; and the fact that this "mad scientist" is first of all mad about God, a fanatical Islamist who in his heart and soul believes that the bomb of which he is the father should belong, if not to the Umma itself, at least to its avant-garde, as incarnated by al Qaeda. So let us not shrink from measuring the probability of a nightmare scenario: to wit, a Pakistani state which--in the shelter of its alliance with an America that is decidedly not counting inconsistencies--could furnish al Qaeda with the means to take the ultimate step of its jihad.
How much time will it take for all this to be said? How much longer will Islamabad's masquerade endure? Next month the American Congress will vote on the question of three billion dollars in aid to Pakistan: Will this aspect of things be taken into account? Will demands be made, at last, in exchange for this aid, for inspections of Pakistani sites, as well as the installation of a double-key system--a system that some of us here in Europe have been calling for?
These are just a few elements I offer--as part of a debate that has scarcely begun.
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