tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post995694442105980076..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Good Samaritans?Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-86260189728282104572015-02-13T12:33:42.602+13:002015-02-13T12:33:42.602+13:00"There has been a degree of political symmetr..."There has been a degree of political symmetry between Sunni political Islam and the international left since 2001 which even in this extreme case leads to a blunting of opposition from some quarters. "<br /><br />Bollocks. There has been a degree of arse kissing of the Saudis who are mostly Sunni simply because they have oil. Anyway, without some sort of explanation of what you mean by symmetry and a few examples the whole statement is pretty damn meaningless anyway.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-23804490597320261542015-02-13T04:45:44.139+13:002015-02-13T04:45:44.139+13:00It is erroneous to think ISIS or something like it...It is erroneous to think ISIS or something like it wouldn't have come into existence if not for Bush's folly in Iraq. ISIS's leadership are often extracted from the former Soviet Union.<br /><br />ISIS's insane objective is literally the genocide of every non Sunni male in the entire world and the rape of every non Sunni women in the world. They are currently winning in Syria and threatening the largest genocide since the Holocaust.<br /><br />I think there are a number of reasons for the left's attitude towards ISIS. There is little political or sympathetic pathos attached to the Kurds who unlike the Palestinians are little known and are not the victims of a group the left has built a hatred for; if it was Zionists tormenting Palestinians the reaction would've been very different. There has been a degree of political symmetry between Sunni political Islam and the international left since 2001 which even in this extreme case leads to a blunting of opposition from some quarters. <br />But most troublingly, unlike Kirk, many politically active people are no longer caring or concerned with what's right or wrong but worry about siding with or against power blocs. Those on the left who are like that just don't care what ISIS does to the Kurds or Alawites but know they hate and oppose America and the projection of its power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-68884952323328645942015-02-12T09:14:16.636+13:002015-02-12T09:14:16.636+13:00Key was and still is happy to turn the other way w...Key was and still is happy to turn the other way when high treason was being committed by Obama, McCain, Clinton and Co when they were busy arming the enemy<br /><br />https://r1016132.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/none-dare-call-it-treason-who-armed-isisal-qada/<br /><br />https://r1016132.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/the-war-on-terrorism-and-the-road-to-ww3-pt1-todays-wars-are-fought-with-yesterdays-tactics/<br /><br />John Key you are lying hypocrite<br /><br />Shame on the lamestream journos - AWOL as per usual<br /><br /><br /><br />Jamienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-25348295500472379382015-02-12T08:41:14.631+13:002015-02-12T08:41:14.631+13:00Both speeches- of Kirk and Key - are important. Of...Both speeches- of Kirk and Key - are important. Of greater concern today is the failure of successive governments to support and assist the people who went to Mururoa as their duty demanded; in their current hour of need. The incidence of cancers amongst this small population is truly appalling.Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-85867151908770936412015-02-10T19:53:53.146+13:002015-02-10T19:53:53.146+13:00Any reference to the parable in the context of Ira...Any reference to the parable in the context of Iraq is inappropriate unless the role of the "robbers" is properly assigned for it is their side New Zealand is taking in any coalition with the U.S.<br />What seems to confuse most commentators is the horrible mess U.S. foreign policy in the region has wrought. Most see it as a failure of colossal proportions. The truth is it has been a huge success.<br />The object of the Israel-focused Neo-Con elements within the U.S. government was to degrade and balkanize Arab states in the region as laid out in the "seminal essay by Israeli foreign affairs official Oded Yinon, which was published by the World Zionist Organisation in 1982, advocating the transformation of Israel into a regional imperial power by fragmenting the Arab world “into a mosaic of ethnic and confessional groupings that could be more easily manipulated.....It was not until the rise of the neocons and their exploitation of the post-September 11 climate that US policy decisively shifted in the direction charted by Yinon and increasingly adopted by Israeli strategists in the interim period.”<br />http://www.jonathan-cook.net/docs/review-jordan.pdf<br /><br />The sole reservation I have with regard to the above scenario is my own difficulty in attributing such evil to any group - but then History has its examples does it not?Brewerstroupehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13011600547966200031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-73992529441860063932015-02-10T17:00:25.708+13:002015-02-10T17:00:25.708+13:00Doesn't charity begin at home? The present Nat...Doesn't charity begin at home? The present National Government is becoming a judgemental administration with strict rules for its welfare assistance. Remember the first pensions in NZ were paid to men of sober dispositions?<br />peteswriteplacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474922953916383101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-58409501430611103332015-02-10T14:58:19.596+13:002015-02-10T14:58:19.596+13:00Why is John Key so concerned with those people in ...Why is John Key so concerned with those people in the Middle East who are being mistreated? He seems remarkably comfortable with any number of people who are being treated badly all over the world. We didn't send troops to Rwanda for instance, where people were treated much worse than they were by Isis. But then I guess we couldn't curry favour with the Americans, because they weren't going to send troops themselves. I guess Rwanda was nowhere near any oilfields.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com