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... decades of development wantonly wasted by lunatic leaders waging wars
on protesting people indisposed to foreign military bases or foreign military presence ... |
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... When the kids bring them home and open them up,
it's the brightest light source in the home ...
Nicholas Negroponte was referring to laptops for children of a rural school in Cambodia.
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... The Tausugs who are the dominant tribe in Sulu have not forgotten US military atrocities against their ancestors back in the Bud Dajo and Bud Bagsak massacres which have put on stake around 2000 Moro men, women and children ...
... We should not be deceived by the promises of development by the US forces for all these will be repaid by our own lives and blood. Let us hear the cries for justice of our brothers and sisters who have been victims of the US military's brutal disrespect for our lives and faith. We call on the patrimonial spirit of the Bangsamoro and Filipino people to denounce this blatant disrespect to our national patrimony and sovereign freedom. ...
SUARA Bangsamoro
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... Jawaharlal Nehru, president Sukarno, Chou En Lai, Mohammad Nasser and Ho Chi Minh worked hard to get rid of colonialism, to dismantle the structure that imperialism had created and give a sense of unity and purpose to the countries of the Third World ...
Manmohan Singh at Bandung for NAM 2005
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... No wonder Sukarno doesn't like us very much.
He has to sit down with the people who tried to overthrow him ...
President Kennedy
... His deep mistrust of the white West was understably compounded
in the case of the United States by his knowledge that in 1958
the CIA had participated in an effort to overthrow him. ...
from a chapter about Sukarno in A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger Jr
... Between 1956 and 1959 at least 200 high-ranking officers of the right-wing military clique were trained in the US. By the end of 1960 the US had equipped 43 battalions for the clique. By 1963 the US had given US$60.9 million "aid" to strengthen the position of the clique. The head of the Agency for International Development in the US emphasized that US aid was not intended to support Sukarno; and that the US trained a great number of officers and ordinary people who would form a unit to make Indonesia a free country - like Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand and other American satellites. ...
summary from Suara Pemuda Indonesia 1966
[ Deirdre Griswold about the US role in the 1965-66 massacre of Indonesians
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"... Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we ..."
[ Did the speaker mean that he and his team never stopped thinking about
new ways to harm his country and its people? ] |
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Who run al-Qaeda and JI?
Who benefits from acts of terror and "war of terror"?
Did FDR not simply let the Japanese attack Pearl Harbour?
Was that not a way to induce Americans to get involved in WW2?
Did Washington not distort intelligence to fan fear and hatred of "targets"
to induce people to support US invasion of Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, ...?
Did Israelis not bomb British and American assets and plant evidence to point to Arab terrorism?
Did Israel not manipulate radio communications to induce America to attack Libya?
... to continue citing more cases of deception .... |
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Let us not waste time negotiating for peace with the barbarians
but quietly focus fully on weakening and uprooting the sources of their sustenance.
| REASON FOR RESTRAINT TO MAKE WAY FOR RESOUNDING REVENGE |
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"from the alMighty we come;
to the alMighty we return."
Some of us might want
to click on the play button
of the music bar below
to recite "alfatih.ah"
for the souls of our loved ones
who have gone before us.
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| they hit us with their tsunami; and swiftly sent their military to "help"!
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Q41:33-36 or surah h.amim sajdah of the Qur'an
Spiritually the long term approach to defense recommended
is not against persons but against hatred harboured by aggressors.
Whereas defense is not against persons,
defense is emphatically in the name of God
for the security of all God's creatures everywhere.
It is not specific about weapons or means. It simply implies that
one can wear down hatred with "something excellent" ["ah.san"];
and the necessary condition for "ah.san" to be present
is by way of patience and restraint which is God's gift.
Q3:7 warns that we restrain from imaginatively reading
hidden meanings
or interpreting these messages of mercy and
warnings of wrath to suit our fancy.
One of the key Arabic terms of Q41:34 is "[c]uduwah"
- literally meaning enemy.
The term is always alluded to
"iblis" or"shyt.an" or "satan" or "devil"
created from fire [ heat energy ? ].
(Q24:45 enlightens that "dabbah", beast, is created from water.)
Iblis was the greatest learned leader of angels meditating and praying
for long periods that the angels under its leadership
would not rebel against God;
but it never prayed for itself to be
graced with freedom from rebelliousness.
After Adam was created from clay,
iblis boiled over with arrogance and hatred
against everything human
until the laws of heaven had devils and humans
fall from grace.
Q7:27 reminds us as descendants of "Adam and Hawa" to be careful
and vigilant to avoid being deceived by followers of "Iblis".
[ shait.an (singular) - "shayat.yin" (plural) ]
These would watch us to lay ambush from positions we cannot see
or fathom. Can we not develop a global positioning system
to detect them and abort their plans.
We are assured safety and security from their "evil designs"
as long as we hold on to our faith and "jihad" against them.
Q6:12 and Q6:54 assures us that God inscribed the rule of mercy.
Mindful of Q3:7 we risk associating the meaning and implication
of the notion "hatred" with the Arabic term "[c]uduwah" - enemy.
We think about the Vietnamese "repulsing" American invasion;
the aggressors were then full of hatred against Communists.
[ Are the aggressors now full of hatred against Muslims? ]
Q4:78-79 Q30:41 Q42:30 Q57:22
Key Arabic terms therein:
"h.asanah" "saiyiah" "fasad" "as.aba" "mus.ibah"
equivalents: ? good evil mischief happen misfortune ?
Numerous other verses explain, amplify and point to examples,
cases and histories about strategy, preparation, treatment of children,
women, the sick, the elderly and enemies who ask for truce or peace etc.
The emphasis is always on faith, patience, perseverence, endurance,
fortitude, prudence and bravery which the prophet and Muslims of his
time exemplified to perfection. Relevant to Jerusalem and the crusades
was the example of
S.alah.uddin of Tikrit. [Saladin]
Q4:78-79 is like a compound axiom which we cannot prove
but accept as premise though not self-evident as in Geometry.
The proposition is that all things emanate from God; whatever "good"
we get is God's gift in trust; and we ourselves draw forth whatever
"bad" that befalls us for letting our "souls" be corrupted by "evil".
Here we are confounded by logic because we cannot define precisely
these entities or objects.
Q4:78 is consistent with Q6:102 and Q39:62
God created everything.
So we infer that everything is traceable
to God -
the source the seed the root?
Q30:41 is from surah ar-rum.
The title sounds as if the chapter
were about Rome.
It is not even about ancient Greece to which the title
alludes.
The key term of verse 41 of this chapter 30 is "fasad" or
mischief.
The message is that humans corrupted by evil bring forth
to this earth
all the mischiefs in the air, on land and in the sea.
Q42:30 impresses upon us that misfortunes happen because
we let them happen.
It implies that we could have prevented them
from happening.
It encourages us to strive ["jihad"] finding
excellent ways to forestall misfortunes.
Q57:22 is consistent with Q4:78-79.
All misfortunes that happen are on record in detail and subjects of
decrees
whether they can happen unhindered or can be frustrated or
aborted.
Something like "mirror-agents" of events?
.....to continue....
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global control of oil and energy "chokepoints"
interfere -> destabilize -> divide -> dominate
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's new war agenda
includes a list of 10 priority countries.
In addition to Iran, it includes Syria, Sudan, Algeria,
Yemen and Malaysia.
US General Richard Myers,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS),
also has a list of what the Pentagon calls
"emerging targets" for pre-emptive war.
His list includes Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia,
the Philippines and Georgia.
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the set-up, the trap
While Malaysia opposed the war against Iraq;
and still opposes occupation by foreign forces;
Singapore gave the US blanket overflight clearance
for the war and helps train America's Iraqi police.
Doesn't the US provide Singapore with more than
two-thirds of all its arms? In Singapore,
hasn't the US access to air bases and wharves,
including one for aircraft carriers?
Aren't US aircraft regularly deployed to Singapore?
Aren't US National Guard units engaged in training
Singapore's troops? Doesn't the Arizona Air National Guard
train Singapore F-16 pilots, while the Texas Air
National Guard trains Chinook chopper pilots?
Hasn't Singapore become a major US forward
deployment
base in Asia for purportedly counter-terrorism operations.
One might correlate tense Singapore -Malaysia relations
with the impact of these "destabilize-divide-dominate" events.
Is Singapore not infested with Israeli spies and
the culprits that planted plutonium 239 at Bali
on 10 December 2002 to make Australians support
the following illegal war against Iraq?
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Any military agreement between Malaysia and the US?
Hasn't Malaysia agreed to be a center
for counter-terrorism training?
Doesn't Malaysia send military personnel to Hawai
to learn "American" military methods?
Surely we don't want our people to learn torture,
killing frenzy or otherwise fail like in Vietna or Iraq .....
Doesn't the US regularly send forces to Malaysia
for training in our jungle? Why does a super-power need that?
Isn't the Amazon forest nearer and better?
Why should we want the US to play a major part
in expanding and modernizing Malaysia's RMAF?
Israel controls the US administration; our people would be
very suspicious and then rebellious.
Have we forgotten Vietnam, agent-orange, Mai Lai,
Iraq and Abu Ghraib ...?
Why should Malaysia give blanket overflight clearance
to US military planes?
The best way to contain the spread of anti-American
sentiment and the ensuing "terrorism" in our region
is to persuade the US to leave our region alone.
Try it out and see how things would improve.
Zionist-terrorists in America are the roots of all evil.
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encircling China - a major oil-import economy
The US government's Energy Information Administration
identifies our "Selat Melaka" as one of the most strategic
"world oil transit chokepoints". How convenient
if in the course of cleaning out "terrorists" and "militant muslims"
Washington might militarily acquire control of "Selat Melaka".
Until now the states in the area have vehemently rejected
repeated US attempts to militarize the strait.
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Control or militarization of Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar
would give US forces chokepoint control over the world's
busiest sea channel for oil from the Persian Gulf to China
and Japan.
It would be a huge blow to China's efforts
to secure energy independence from the US. Not only
has China already lost huge oil concessions in Iraq
with the US occupation, but China's oil supply
from Sudan is also under increasing pressure from Washington.
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oil oil everywhere; every drop only for US?
Myanmar which the US and UK still call "Burma" is a
major ally and recipient of military aid from Beijing.
Mynamar, Malaysia and Aceh in Indonesia
represent strategic flanks on which the vital sea lanes
from "Selat Melaka", through which oil tankers
from the Persian Gulf travel to China, can be controlled.
80% of Japan's oil passes through "Selat Melaka".
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Indonesia, with huge natural-gas resources serving mainly
China and Japan, has apparently been cooperative with
the US "war of terror" since September 2001.
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Indonesia's government raised an outcry in the wake of
the recent tsunami disaster when the Pentagon dispatched
a US aircraft carrier and special troops within 72 hours
to land in Aceh province to do "rescue work".
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier,
with 2,000 supposedly Iraq-bound Marines aboard,
together with the USS Bonhomme Richard from Guam,
landed some 13,000 US troops in Aceh,
which alarmed many in the Indonesian military and government.
The Indonesian government acceded, but demanded that the US leave
by the end of March and not establish a base camp in Aceh.
No less than deputy defense secretary and Iraq war strategist
Paul Wolfowitz, former US ambassador to Indonesia,
made an immediate "fact-finding" tour of the region.
ExxonMobil runs a huge LNG [liquefied natural gas] production
in Aceh that supplies energy to China and Japan.
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for billions of us, anytime China and India before US?
"The American investment in Cold War South-East Asia -
which made possible the tyrannies of the Thai generals
in the period 1948-77, the Marcos regime in the Philippines,
and Suharto's endless Neues Ordnung - is no more.
The American bases in the Philippines are gone, and
the country matters very little to its former colonial master.
Thailand is no longer seen as a bulwark against anything.
Even Indonesia, with its 200 million people,
is understood more as a worry than an ally.
The anti-Western vociferations of Malaysia's
durable [former] Prime Minister barely earn him
a shrug in Washington.
Japan has long-term geo-political interests
in the region, but it is likely that the country's
'historic moment', symbolised by the Plaza Accord of 1985,
and the anti-Japanese scare that swept America
in the Eighties, has passed. .....
On the other hand, although China's political future
is full of uncertainties, the chances are high that
it will soon resume its historically central role
in eastern and south-eastern Asia. ....."
Professor Benedict R O'G Anderson
Professor of International Studies and
Director of the Modern Indonesia Project
at Cornell University, New York.
He is widely acknowledged with coining
one of the most used theoretical definitions
of Nationalism. His 1983 publication
Imagined Communities
has become a standard text on the subject.
He has written extensively on the politics of
the Southeast Asian region.
He is also Editor of the journal Indonesia.
He has published numerous texts on the political culture
of Indonesia and Thailand and, for twenty years, has regularly
written commentaries on the internal politics of
the Indonesian military.
Within the field of comparative politics,
he has focussed his research and teaching on nationalism
and militarism in a world context, and on political culture
and comparative colonialism in South-East Asia.
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