M. Bozinovich

Weeks after Richard Holbrooke got appointed as the “special” envoy for Afghanistan, US got themselves a new leader in Afghanistan.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Gov. Gul Agha Shirzai, a semiliterate former warlord, has an autocratic style, a reputation for doling out government contracts to family and friends, and a personal fortune allegedly amassed via corruption and the opium trade.

Shirzai, which means son of a lion, is seen as a “useful partner” for the US even though Shirzai has a track record of “of violence, corruption and a disdain for the rule of law”.

Like Washington, Afghani’s love Shirzai and have voted him as the “Person of the Year” during a national radio call-in show.

“Every politician in Afghanistan is a thief, but our governor doesn’t take all the money for himself,” Shirzais is described by the Aghanis.

Some years ago Shirzai was removed by the US as governor of Kandahar because of “allowing his personal gunmen to get into shootouts with the city’s police force”.

Shirzai also shows a profound acumen for diplomacy.

“We don’t have to rely only on fighting and bombing and jet planes. That we use only for those people who won’t talk,” says Shirzai.

Additional biographical gems are:

- He has three wives and 18 children. He smokes and tells dirty jokes. His favorite food is steak, a taste he picked up on visits to America (so, he’s been courted for a while now, eh!).

- After U.S. Special Forces installed him a governor, Shirzai “amassed a fortune, estimated at $300 million, through corrupt business dealings and the opium trade”.

- Shirzai says that he lives off his government salary of about $36,000 a year but was able to personally contribute “millions of dollars on reconstruction projects”.

- In a remarkable compassion for Afghani women, Shirzais built a “park Mr. Shirzai built for women.”

Back in 1999, Holbrooke found similar allies when he visited the headquarters of Kosovo Albanian separatist gunmen and, mindful of Islamic customs, Holbrooke took his shoes off and made a barefoot alliance, a symbol that tells the host “I’m with you”. These gunmen, today, are lords of Europe’s underworld.

Musings Afghanistan

- With his recognition of Kosovo’s independence, Bush managed to enter the anals of Serbian history right along with the distinguished Murad II whose rule was marked by the long war he fought against the Christian peoples, says Wikipedia. Then again, Daniel Fried at the State Department says that Serbs are mistaken about their own history.

- Speaking of history, Maryland became the first colony to institutionalize slavery in 1640 - 1640!. “I mean, after all, we’re talking about something from 1389 — 1389! It’s time to move forward,” says Condolezza Rice. Oups! My bad, she was talking about Serbs.

- As for Noel Malcolm’s Is Kosovo Serbia? We ask a historian in the Guardian it is worthy to remember that the stupidest fool is the one that always shouts the loudest mistaking his noise for wisdom.

- On the blowback on US Embassy attack in Belgrade: Attacking fools in Belgrade insipire a fool to attack Melissa Bean.

- Serbia is devotedly accused of violating minority rights for so long until, suddenly, the minority carves out a Serb-free state that the accusers recognize.

- The corollary to the above axiom: Every time Serbia refuses to recognize an ethnically Serb-free state, it is accussed of a return to Milosevic-style hardline nationalism.

- Don’t let anyone fool you, you Serb! Losing your own land in exchange for joining the EU is a great deal. Just wait few years for reasons as those who will tell them to you are being recruited.

Musings

The ‘pro-Western” President of Serbia, Tadic has sidelined any discussion on a membership deal with EU for post-Kosovo days and for any European nation that recognizes this rogue state, Tadic’s job will become proportionally harder by a factor larger then one. After such diplomatic gang-rape, Tadic may have to stop any “integration” talks, at least to upkeep his dignity among the Serb electorate if anything.

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Speaking of dignity, Rice has made an offer to Tadic that will really enhance his dignity among Serbian voters. Rice proposes, wink! wink!, that Washington send “aid” to Serbia so to ease the pain of losing Kosovo. Now that is a real bargain that even the most corrupt rulers in history managed to pass by.

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How do we know we are talking to a sadist?

Council On Foreign Relations: “Is that agreeable to the Serbs in Kosovo?”

Frank Wisner: “Now, will Serbs, despite that, be incited, or in a tense environment pick up an incident or two and take fright…”

Again, How do we know we are talking to a sadist? Can’t be when the victim is accused of violence, could it?!

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Col. Richard Hayes, deputy commander of Task Force Falcon, the U.S. contingent in the 15,000-strong Kosovo Force recalling an incident of Albanian Muslim youths throwing Molotov cocktails at a Serbian church:

“But was that ethnic violence or kids just being stupid?” Hayes asked. “We’ve had a couple of instances like that.”

Gee, Colonel, those Muslim kids and Molotov cocktails. We should ban churches.

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Lie of the week:

“Russia doesn’t have among its political instruments any measures for punishing anyone,” says Russia’s FM Lavrov. We see Ukraine agrees with that.

Musings

Bosnian Muslims, like all others, are delighted at Obama, pointing that he is not just Barack Obama but actually Barack Hussein Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama has already promised that, if elected, he’ll let the Gitmo Jihadists free then hold a joint US-Islamic Summit that will earn him, in the Islamic world, another title to his growing name - Barack Hussein bin-Obama.

….and if he clamps down on Christians in America as many expect, bin-Osama, oops… I mean bin-Obama, may earn that honorary suffix every pious Jihadist carries - Barack Hussein bin-Obama al-Ameriki.

But wait! There is more!

If our future president Barack Hussein bin-Obama al-Ameriki gets few Americans beheaded, he’ll get that ultimate Jihadist term of endearment - Abu-Barak.

Ahhhhhhhh! The Audacity of Hope that awaits us.

Musings

The headline:

Archbishop of Canterbury seeks adoption of Islamic law?

Why doesen’t he just convert England to Islam and be done with it?

Musings

In reference to Bobby Fischer’s violation of the US ban on Serbia when in 1992 he playing a chess rematch with Spassky on an island in the Adriatic Sea that was part of Yugoslavia, then under United Nations sanctions, Serbian daily Danas while commenting on Bobby Fischer who just died at the age of 64 in his adopted country Iceland:

“It looks paradoxical that some countries can lead wars without the UN approval and having never to answer for that, yet someone who is in a war with wooden figures on the chess table can be sentenced to a decade in prison!?”

Musings

Recently published findings by the UK-based Policy Exchange think-tank raises alarm about the levels of treasonous subversion “extremist” Islamic literature has in British mosques and suggests that most such literature is being imported by agencies linked to the Saudi Arabian government such as the Muslim World League.

“The mosque is to Britain’s Muslim communities what the church, the chapel, and the synagogue have been to our Christian and Jewish communities,” says the report and continues “Like many churches and synagogues, the mosque can be put to numerous supplementary uses – beyond its immediate religious function.”

The obvious conclusion which this report, regrettably, does not draw from this is that prayer influences the “supplementary use” of a mosque for such “pious” things as plotting terrorist action. In other words, prayer (will) determines one’s actions.

This misnamed report, The Hijacking of British Islam, goes on to propose counter measures but again fails to incorporate in its calculus the more fundamental problem of the British society one so apparent to the outsides like the ones in the Balkans.

Says London’s Daily Mail:

“Labour’s favourite think-tank says that because it would be hard to “expunge” Christmas from the national calendar, ‘even-handedness’ means public organisations must start giving other religions equal footing.” Besides, “We [British] can no longer define ourselves as a Christian nation,” adds this think-tank.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth (L), Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and Prince Charles (R) look on during a ceremonial welcome for King Abdullah at Horse Guards parade in London October 30, 2007.Â

Nurturing Islam in the British society, and across wider Europe, for that matter, is a way to remove Christianity all together from so many industrious English, an endeavor not so unknown to Christian Serbs in Kosovo precisely because of the British policies under the Laborite Tony Blair.

In 1999, Blair wrote to BBC News Online that “It is no exaggeration to say what is happening in Kosovo is racial genocide” then continued to explicate the 1998 position of the Saudi-funded Muslim World League, Abdullah Ibn Salih Al-Obeid, claiming “savage practices of the Serbs against the Muslims in Kosovo.”

Eight years after bombing of Serbia, Christian Serbs are “expunged” from Kosovo and Saudi’s are ready to “invest” in Kosovo.

On today’s occasion of the ending of the official royal Saudi visit to Britain, Gideon Rachman of Financial Times, writes in his blog that “British are extremely uncomfortable about the sleazy nature of British-Saudi relations”.

Well put, and indeed, it was Blair bent on knees forwards for all of Britain while Saudis went cruising on them, and Brits are tired of it.

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