By Con George-Kotzabasis
The attack on Mumbai is the continuation of terror by all means. The question is whether the civilized people of the world in this struggle for existence will be expecting the U.S.A., under the new incoming administration, which is the only nation that can defeat these warriors of ‘God’ decisively, and its allies, to also fight terror by all means and whether President Obama will have the timely mettle, resolution, and sagacity to do so. His Clintonian appointees to chief Cabinet positions and his selection of liberal minded ‘consigliore’, who have all been critical of the ‘pugnacious’ foreign affairs policy of the Bush-Cheney administration, do not bode well, despite the fact that all of them are highly intelligent and replete with experience in world affairs.
However, the crucial test for all these people in the proscenium and the eminence grise that will be in the wings and will be advising President Obama, is whether they will have the moral strength and imagination to break from their experience of the past that can no longer apply to an unprecedented unique enemy in the form of fanatical irrational terror, and forge by the power of imagination a policy not only made of carrots but also of the cold usable blade of the sword against this deadly irreconcilable foe. And ultimately, since it will be Obama’s decision, whether the latter will sheathe Bush’s sword and instead use the paper knife of diplomacy as the major instrument to defeat state and ‘stateless’ fanatics.
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You are an accomplished writer and a highly respected Man. I know, because I am an Australian.
I am lost on your post, because you failed to reach me. You have chosen a writing style that supports your incredible intellect.
Perhaps you only need to reach those that can grasp the cleverly crafted words... With “communication” to the “masses” (such as myself) having a secondary priority.
From my humble – or not so humble perspective – (You be the judge), you are not “communicating”. You are “writing” and I (for one) cannot understand all the big words.
Then again, perhaps I am the only uneducated bum on the forums :)
Thank you for your generous compliments and your critical 'shaft'. Communication with the "masses" is very important to me and I don't treat anyone as a "secondary priority". But I strongly believe that reading is also an educational process and one should lift one's readers up, as I myself have been lifted by other writers who stand on a higher level than me.
And by your kind and civilized response you don't seem to me to be an "uneducated bum".
By Con George-Kotzabasis
The attack on Mumbai is the continuation of terror by all means. The question is whether that Obama fella can get his mates on side and fix these baaastards.
His Clintonian appointees – bunch 'o wanker's last time, why are they gunna be any better now?
We'll soon find out mate... If they don't wanna listen to that Obama fellow.. Do you think them ex Clinton boy's have the balls to give em one????
Rooted this world – bloody rooted mate...
Give us your load of bloody wisdom – no baaastards listening anyhow!!!
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