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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 49218" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news.+1&nbsp; cuts both ways. ummm &quot; Can&#039;t we all just get along,,?&quot;&nbsp; The Rodney King videos tightened up several blue buttholes.Surely you should know better than to call the USSR an imaginary threat... Who of our generation doesn&#039;t remember Kruschev at the UN hammering on his table with his shoe proclaiming he will bury us. If he was an imaginary external threat he played the part well. yes this is disturbing.. While Holder seems drifting toward justifying death from above to even US citizens (albeit bad ones). . Good science fiction in that movie... &quot;minority report&quot;.. Huh? Who was talking about Bhutto? I was talking about a moderate politician assassinated over a campaign to repeal blasphemy legislation more recently. Apparently more than one legislator but governor of Punjab (Salman Taseer) was pretty high profile and assassinated by his own bodyguard for secular rather extreme religious leadership. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/world/asia/05pakistan.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/world/asia/05pakistan.html?pagewanted=all</a><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/pakistan_04-14.html" target="_blank">Pakistani Legislator Stands Up to Extremists Over Blasphemy Law | PBS NewsHour | April 14, 2011 | PBS</a>Bhutto was assassinated in 2007 just before an election, which happens all to often in that part of the world. A moderate western leaning political leader in Lebanon was assassinated by a (Syrian?) car bomb. like I said before Machiavelli would be proud. Dead men (or women) can&#039;t run for office or change laws. The Bhutto assassination was of interest because she had survived other attempts, and it was argued that her security was intentionally inadequate.&nbsp; JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 49218, member: 126"] Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news. +1 cuts both ways. ummm " Can't we all just get along,,?" The Rodney King videos tightened up several blue buttholes. Surely you should know better than to call the USSR an imaginary threat... Who of our generation doesn't remember Kruschev at the UN hammering on his table with his shoe proclaiming he will bury us. If he was an imaginary external threat he played the part well. yes this is disturbing.. While Holder seems drifting toward justifying death from above to even US citizens (albeit bad ones). . Good science fiction in that movie... "minority report".. Huh? Who was talking about Bhutto? I was talking about a moderate politician assassinated over a campaign to repeal blasphemy legislation more recently. Apparently more than one legislator but governor of Punjab (Salman Taseer) was pretty high profile and assassinated by his own bodyguard for secular rather extreme religious leadership. [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/world/asia/05pakistan.html?pagewanted=all[/url] [url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/pakistan_04-14.html]Pakistani Legislator Stands Up to Extremists Over Blasphemy Law | PBS NewsHour | April 14, 2011 | PBS[/url] Bhutto was assassinated in 2007 just before an election, which happens all to often in that part of the world. A moderate western leaning political leader in Lebanon was assassinated by a (Syrian?) car bomb. like I said before Machiavelli would be proud. Dead men (or women) can't run for office or change laws. The Bhutto assassination was of interest because she had survived other attempts, and it was argued that her security was intentionally inadequate. JR [/QUOTE]

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