T Boone Pickens: We have more energy than any other country, get off middle east oil!

Natural gas accounts for just 22 percent of the nation's energy consumption. Natural gas advocates say that increased use would mean a cleaner environment and less dependence on foreign oil.

T Boone pickens: We could easily attain energy independence if we really wanted it. Simply ignore the influence of oil interests to keep their conglomerate of support businesses owning us and switch over to    natural gas.

T Boone: There is no country in the world living of its own resources that Isn't successful! Get on our own resources. switch to natural gas. There would be $60 Billion in savings and a 75% reduction in Middle East dependency.We must get off OPEC oil.

Introduce humility in Congress. We do not need middle east oil.We have large naval resources constantly trying to keep the Srait of Hormus open for oil traffic and to NATO military use.In one way or the other we are involved with Libya, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Africa, and who knows where else.

We don't have to settle for war. Switch to natural gas and get out of the middle east.We have 3 times more natural gas equivelant to the oil in Saudi Arabia. Stop killintg American soldiers. Stop funding the Taliban., switch to natural gas.

We have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia, We have more energy than any other country.  I have to ask, why are we killing our soldiers for energy and relationships we do nopt need. We are not wanted in the middle east, we do not need to be in the middle east for oil. I agree we need to have a rellationship with middle east countries but we do not have to be involved militarily.

* Switch to natural gas and be in control of our own destiny!

James Joiner

Gardner, ma

http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Jabhat al-Nusra, or the "front for the protection of the people of the Levant," terrorists or defenders?

Al Nusra "children of the Levant" terrorists or Defenders?

Anti-regime activists say jihadist fighters linked to al-Qaida fought with rebels to capture a Syrian military air defense base near Aleppo. Videos posted online  apparently shot inside the base, indicate that a group called Jabhat al-Nusra participated in the overnight battle for the base. The videos show fighters inspecting lines of large missiles.Jabhat al-Nusra, or the "front for the protection of the people of the Levant," is a jihadist group with links to al-Qaida. The group has claimed responsibility for a number of bombings since the start of the Syrian uprising.

 Al-Nusra Front to Protect the Levant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Okay we are considered their enemy along with Israel as we seem to be every ones in the middle east who wants us off their land. With that said I don't know if  they are not abusing the good name of the Levant. Al- Nusra was first heard of in 2011 and was formed to remove Bashar Al Assad from power for killing the Sunni  rebels.

That is a good thing and I agree with it but if they truly consider themselves protectors of and people of the Levant they would be protectors of all the downtrodden in the middle east. They should be the protectors of Palestine when they are done with Syria. I do not think it is a bad thing that they are in Syria. However when the job is done they should move on to help Palestinians. Palestinians are truly of the Levant.

Muslims of Palestine are largely descendents of Christians and Jews of the southern Levant. The Southern Levant roughly encompasses Palestine, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, along with the modern sovereign states of Israel, Jordan and the southern parts of Lebanon and Syria. We are talking all the way back to prehistoric times people.

 Southern_Levant Genetic analysis and historical accounts suggest the Muslims of Palestine are largely descendents of Christians and Jews of the southern Levant,"The Levant is the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean, roughly between Egypt and Anatolia (modern Turkey). The Southern Levant roughly encompasses Palestine, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, along with the modern sovereign states of Israel, Jordan and the southern parts of Lebanon and Syria 

[1]." and descendents of a core population that lived there in prehistoric times.[22]Since the time of the Muslim conquests in the 7th century, religious conversions have resulted in Palestinians being predominantly Sunni Muslim by religious affiliation, though there is a significant Palestinian Christian minority of various Christian denominations, as well as Druze and a small Samaritan community. Though Palestinian Jews made up part of the population of Palestine prior to the creation of the State of Israel, very few identify as "Palestinian" today. Acculturation, independent from conversion to Islam, resulted in Palestinians being linguistically and culturally Arab.[18] The vernacular of Palestinians, irrespective of religion, is the Palestinian dialect of Arabic.

Absolutely there should be a 2 state solution with an Israel and a free state of Palestine side by side. However as we keep asserting, it will never happen with the sorry excuse for Diplomacy.  Jihadists, Islamists, extremists, Al Qaeda affiliates, whatever you call them someone of that stature has to stand up for them and it can't be Hezbollah. Someone has to stand up to the separatist hard liner Netanyahu and the likes of Gingrich who back him up saying he is dead right saying Palestinians are "invented" and Jerusalem belongs to the Jews.

I am afraid he is dead wrong and defending Netanyahu's divisive war mongering stance and saying Palestinians are an invented people is grotesque and will only help guarantee a total middle east breakdown. I refuse to believe that ass can get away with voicing such war mongering destructive divisive rhetoric. For now for me the jury is still out on Jabhat al-Nusra.

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Afghanistan could collapse? Afghanistan will collapse!

 

"There is a real risk that the regime in Kabul could collapse upon NATO's withdrawal," said Candace Rondeaux, the ICG's senior Afghanistan analyst. "The window for remedial action is closing fast." The report - "Afghanistan: The Long, Hard Road to the 2014 Transition" - said the country was on course in 2014 for another set of fraudulent elections after the chaotic presidential and parliamentary polls in 2009 and 2010.A repeat could undermine what little hope remains for stability after the Afghan government takes full responsibility for security from US-led NATO forces, the analysis by the respected Brussels-based group said. The coalition, which has waged an 11-year war against Taliban insurgents, is drawing down its troops from a peak of some 130,000, and almost all combat forces are scheduled to quit the country by the end of 2014.
 

There is more than a real risk, it is a foregone conclusion and the people know it. Mullah Omar was invited to join the upcoming election and he did not respond. He did not have to he knows when we are gone so is corrupt Karzai. I remember during the election with Abdullah and Karzai's victory was found to be grossly corrupt the people just shrugged and said one corrupt Government is the same as the next.

That said, the people would be wise to remember the cutting off of heads and hands that is routine for the Taliban and how stifling it is under their rule. As a whole they should remember the thousands of them the Taliban have purposely killed. They should form Lashkar's (civilian defense against the Taliban) and eliminate the Taliban or life as they want it is over.

 Afghans fear what will happen when troops leave: Among Afghans around the country interviewed by The Associated Press, the worry is pervasive. Many are deeply skeptical that Afghan police and security forces, which the U.S.-led coalition has spent years trying to build, will be able to fight insurgents and militants without American and NATO fighting alongside. Worse-case scenarios that some fear: The Afghan forces could splinter along ethnic line and prompt civil war, the nation could plunge into a deep recession, or the Kabul government — plagued with corruption and still fragile despite efforts to establish its authority — would remain too weak to hold off a Taliban takeover. Just a 45-minute drive south of Kabul, residents of Wardak province directly feel the tenuousness. The province is a battleground for Afghan and coalition forces trying to squash hotbeds of the Taliban. Residents quickly warn visitors that it’s dangerous just to go past a checkpoint less a kilometer (half-mile) outside the provincial capital, Maidan Shahr.

 In Afghanistan, Businesses Plan Their Own Exits: America may be struggling to come up with a viable exit plan for Afghanistan, but Abdul Wasay Manani is sure of his. This month, Mr. Manani, 38, flew to India for 14 days to scout out a new business, and a new home, ready to leave Afghanistan and everything he worked to build here, just in case things fall apart when most Americans and other foreign troops leave in 2014. “If the Taliban come like last time, ordering people around with whips, I can’t stay here,” he said. “I have to leave this country to keep my family safe.” Many Afghans share his concern. In this environment, troubling indicators are not hard to find. More than 30,400 Afghans applied for asylum in industrialized nations in 2011, the highest level in 10 years and four times the number seeking asylum in 2005. The only Western bank operating here said on Wednesday that it would be leaving. Piles of cash equaling about a quarter of Afghanistan’s annual economic output were physically carried out of Afghanistan last year.
 
I just do not get it. If those people know how bad their life is going to be under the Taliban then why do they not fight to defeat them? *Vietnam all over again regardless of what they say. They are now offering the Taliban to join in the Government.

I really do not care what they do. Our soldiers did their job. We should get them out now with heads held high for a job well done. They have performed magnificently.The Taliban are going to take over again regardless and the people know it that is why everyone who can is making preparations to get out now.


James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://httpanaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Attack on Pakistani schoolgirl galvanizes anti-Taliban feeling: I quote "it is time for people to stand up."

anti Taliban movement in Karachi

Attack on Pakistani schoolgirl galvanizes anti-Taliban feeling: A Pakistani schoolgirl who dared to speak out against the Taliban took a bullet to the head for her act of defiance. Now, as Malala Yousufzai lies in a hospital bed in Birmingham, England, the shock and outrage among her countrymen have given way to a new sentiment: What will the government do about this? Thousands of people nationwide have joined in rallies in support of the wounded 14-year-old. The shooting has prompted an unusually strong and united reaction of disgust and anger among many Pakistanis, analysts say. 

At a rally organized by the powerful MQM political party in Karachi, thousands of people gathered, some waving flags and banners with messages of support for Malala. "Our prayers are with you," read one. Another said, "Malala -- (an) attack on you is an attack on education and progress." Social activist Saman Jafery told CNN: "If Taliban is a mindset, then Malala is a mindset too. It's a mindset of educated and empowered women." Another of those at the rally, Haider Rizvi, said people "don't want the Taliban anymore in Pakistan, and after the Malala incident, it is time for people to stand up."

 YOU ARE EITHER WITH THE TALIBAN OR AGAINST THEM; THERE IS NO THIRD OPTION: ALTAF HUSSAIN The entire nation will have to come forward against the heartless killers. The cowardly attack on Malala Yousufzai is an attack on Islam and the bright face of Pakistan: Altaf Hussain The Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Mr Altaf Hussain has said that Malala Yousufzai is the symbol of knowledge which the Taliban want to suppress.

  It's appalling enough that 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who publicly championed the cause of education for girls in Pakistan, was shot in the head and neck and critically injured by gunmen who boarded her school bus in the Swat Valley. 

  Even more horrendous is that a Taliban spokesman declared that she had been singled out for attack because of her support of girls' education in defiance of Taliban edict. "Let this be a lesson," the spokesman told the New York Times. We hope it will be a lesson — that such violence is barbaric and counterproductive. It has no place in today's world. Not in Pakistan or Afghanistan or anywhere else.  Even worse is they say they will make sure they kill her next time.

 It is high time Pakistani's and Afghani's rise up unite and eradicate this vermin enemy of Islam "the Taliban! The people would be wise to remember the cutting off of heads and hands that is routine for the Taliban and how stifling it is under their rule. As a whole they should remember the thousands of them the Taliban have purposely killed.  They should form Lashkar's (civilian defense against the Taliban) and eliminate the Taliban or life as they want it is over.

I just do not get it. If those people know how bad their life is going to be under the Taliban then why do they not fight to defeat them? The people better stand up, stand together and fight the Taliban. The Taliban may have had good intentions years ago but they have turned into a gang of murderous thugs who rape and kill their own unless they get their way and people bow down to them Period. 

Get rid of the Taliban! At one time I believed they should be allowed to rule or whatever they wanted because they were indigenous but I now believe they should be eliminated. After many beheadings and killings of men women and children for not living and doing things the way the unrighteous gang "the taliban" says, I now feel  they should be isolated or eliminated. 


James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://httpanaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Chinese warships hold military exercises as US troops mull drill to take island

Chinese warships near Okinawa prefecture

 China in East China Sea exercises : The exercises are aimed at "sharpening response to emergencies in missions to safeguard territorial sovereignty", state-run Xinhua news agency said.  They involve 11 ships and eight aircraft, including vessels from marine surveillance and fisheries agencies. The agencies' ships had been "harassed" while in disputed waters, it said. 

 China said the exercises would take place on Friday, but gave no details of the location in the East China Sea. State-run CCTV showed members of the Chinese military, as well as footage of a frigate, fighter jets and helicopters. China, Japan and Taiwan all claim the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Japan controls the islands, which lie south of Okinawa and north of Taiwan. 

* How about the fact that this is most likely a warning to an upcoming exercise by Japan and the US on attacking a small island. The small island of course would represent Senkaku as the dispute over the island chain and the mineral rich China seas continues to ratchet up.

 

Japanese, US troops mull drill to take island: The exercise, part of broader joint maneuvers to start in early November, would use an uninhabited island in Okinawa, southernmost Japan, Jiji Press and Kyodo News agencies quoted unidentified sources as saying yesterday. The drill would involve Japanese and US troops making an amphibious and airborne landing to retake the island using boats and helicopters, Kyodo said. Japan and China have long been at loggerheads over the sovereignty of rocky outcrops in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China. The Tokyo-administered island chain is uninhabited, but is thought to be sitting on top of valuable resources. 

Remember the "incident spring 2010 with the 10 Chinese warships including destroyers a
nd submarines off Okinawa? This put a new light on things to me. Look at the big picture once again. Japan has got to be rethinking their constant effort to get the US Military to leave Okinawa.

 It will behoove Japan to have us there. This puts a whole new light on China's turn around on Iran, their monetary finagling, and their last minute turn around on whether or not to attend the nuclear summit. This latest row really has to have Japan rethinking.

Remember Just prior to this sudden mood and cooperation change with the US we were being threatened for arming Taiwan, for meeting with the Dalai lama in Washington, and threatened with slowing our economic recovery. I fell for the line of thought that the so called experts were floating that China realized that if we go down so do they. 

Cooperation between China Russia and the US is critical and it just keeps getting worse! Obama was right to say our ties will shape the future of the 21st century. The US and China are eying each other and moving very cautiously as they try to strike a balance. 

A few years back I began to view our relationship with China as the most important in the world. Not because we drove each others economy but because if at the time with Bush's instigation to war with Russia China due to the fact of how our 2 economies are so intertwined that if something happened China would side with us not Russia. I never imagined that today problems between China and Japan would be the issue.

As we discussed there have been at least four cases of groups of Chinese military ships crossing through the area of Okinawa since November 2008, first 4 ships then 6 then 8 and now 10 including destroyers and submarines. That case appeared to be the first involving surfaced submarines. The group of 10 ships, including the submarines, was observed about 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of Okinawa in international waters.

Two missile destroyers and three frigate ships from the same group were spotted participating in a flight exercise of carrier-based helicopters April 7-9, 20010, the Defense Ministry's Joint Staff Office said in a statement The war ships were in international waters but close to Okinawa and Japan was not notified.

 That area as you may know has natural resources under the ocean and islands claimed by both Nations. It is important that we stay in Okinawa as China plays a more important role in Asia and around the world as she gains strength militarily and economically as we just discussed. 

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com 

Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan could be speeded up, says Rasmussen, Afghan businesses fleeing! Sound familiar?

Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan could be speeded up, says Rasmussen: In an interview with the Guardian Nato's secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, responded to pressure for a faster withdrawal from Afghanistan by stating that the options were being studied and should be clear within three months."From now until the end of 2014 you may see adaptation of our presence. Our troops can redeploy, take on other tasks, or even withdraw, or we can reduce the number of foreign troops," he said. 

"From now until the end of 2014 we will see announcements of redeployments, withdrawals or drawdown … If the security situation allows, I would not exclude the possibility that in certain areas you could accelerate the process." Rasmussen admitted that the killings of almost 50 allied troops this year in "green on blue" attacks – Afghan security forces turning on their trainers and mentors – had damaged the relationship between the international forces and the Afghan police and military.

We went through this in Vietnam and eventually we were sent packing. Continually we were told Afghanistan is not another Vietnam but we have done everything possible to ensure that it is and would be a lot worse. We are admitting defeat but absolutely our soldiers did their job under dire circumstance and performed magnificently. It is the citizens we leave behind that are again clamoring to get out. 

In Afghanistan, Businesses Plan Their Own Exits: America may be struggling to come up with a viable exit plan for Afghanistan, but Abdul Wasay Manani is sure of his. This month, Mr. Manani, 38, flew to India for 14 days to scout out a new business, and a new home, ready to leave Afghanistan and everything he worked to build here, just in case things fall apart when most Americans and other foreign troops leave in 2014. “If the Taliban come like last time, ordering people around with whips, I can’t stay here,” he said. “I have to leave this country to keep my family safe.” Many Afghans share his concern. In this environment, troubling indicators are not hard to find. More than 30,400 Afghans applied for asylum in industrialized nations in 2011, the highest level in 10 years and four times the number seeking asylum in 2005. The only Western bank operating here said on Wednesday that it would be leaving. Piles of cash equaling about a quarter of Afghanistan’s annual economic output were physically carried out of Afghanistan last year.

I just do not get it. If those people know how bad their life is going to be under the Taliban then why do they not fight to defeat them? *Vietnam all over again regardless of what they say. They are now offering the Taliban to join in the Government but it does not matter because they are going to take over immediately.

I really do not care what they do. Our soldiers did their job. We should get them out now with heads held high for a job well done. They have performed magnificently.The Taliban are going to take over again regardless and the people know it that is why everyone who can is making preparations to get out now.


James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://httpanaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Video of Sunni against Shiite as Syria killing Lebanese leaders trying to spread their civil war throughout middle east

 

 

 

Lebanon's prime minister says deadly Beirut car bombing has links to the crisis in Sria: Investigators collected evidence at the site of a bomb attack in the Ashrafieh area of Lebanon's capital, Beirut. Wissam al-Hassan, a prominent Lebanese intelligence official opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and at least seven other people were killed in the blast on Friday.

 

Iran speaks out against the bombing but blames it on Israel. The prominent Labanese official killed though led the Lebanese opposition against Bashar Al assad so I would expect that Iran's Quds forces did it.

 

  SNC chief: Syrian regime killed Hassan: “Wissam al-Hassan had evidence [that] charge the Syrian regime [with crimes in Lebanon], which made him a target for the regime of [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad,” Sayda told Al-Jumhuriya newspaper.

 

Sayda also said that Hassan’s assassination was linked to the “crime of ex-Information Minister Michel Samaha and [Syrian] officer Ali Mamluk. The SNC chief also said that the Syrian regime was working on destabilizing the region and would conduct more assassinations in Lebanon. Hassan was killed on Friday in a huge explosion that rocked the Beirut area of Ashrafieh

 

 Anti-Syria Rally Held in Lebanon on 'Day of Rage' Over Bombing: Thousands of supporters of Lebanon’s opposition March 14 coalition poured into Beirut for today’s funeral of an assassinated security official and for a “day of rage” against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Brigadier General Wissam al- Hassan. Al-Hassan, who headed the information branch of the Internal Security Forces, had investigated several bombings and plots that the March 14 group blamed on the Syrian regime. 

Three people died and 126 were injured in the explosion that killed al-Hassan, according to a final casualty count carried by Lebanon’s official National News Agency. The recent violence has raised concerns about a possible spillover of the conflict in neighboring Syria. March 14 supporters gathered at the rally’s venue in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square, waving Lebanon’s flag and that of the Syrian rebels fighting Assad’s government. “We’re expressing our support for the Syrian people and opposition to Bashar,” said Ali Majzoub, 16, holding the rebel Syrian flag. 

  Lebanese army responds to gun battles between Sunnis, Shiites in Beirut: Video: Lebanese soldiers fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who broke through a cordon and tried to storm the government headquarters in Beirut. The crowd came from the funeral of a top intelligence official assassinated.

The total middle east breakdown Sunnni against Shiite we have written about numerous times is well under way. Sadly the world is not going to sit idly by but will and is interfering plus Israel and the Kurds are pushing for their new status in the new middle east.  We can only hope we keep it from erupting into WW3.

In closing: You know Putin just got himself reelected as President, he did this so he could be at the helm of Russia as he like me knows 100% that world war is our future. He plans on marshaling China who is rapidly building a more formidable military and whoever he can to take on US hegemony.

Russia watched helplessly as we had our way in Libya. Putin blames what is happening in Syria on our interference and Libya for training the protesters to fight against Bashar Al-Assad.

Putin is going to do everything possible to keep us from helping the Syrian people and I really feel for them. I do not see this going down the way Libya did and Iran and Russia are going to make sure it does not.

 I am afraid the Syrian people are going to be sacrificed, sacrificed in what is merely an opening salvo in this the wars for future dominance. I  heard that Russia is gathering forces to go into Iran via Armenia for a quick strike through Georgia. 
We have a showdown setting up that looks disastrous for the worlds future. It will be a miracle if we can keep this from turning into WW3!



James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Turkey Forces a Syria-Bound Plane From Moscow to Land, NATO to help Turkey

Turkey Forces a Syria-Bound Plane From Moscow to Land: Turkish F-16 jets forced a passenger plane traveling from Moscow to Damascus to land yesterday after intelligence reports said it was carrying cargo banned by civil aviation rules, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

The plane was carrying about 30 passengers and some cargo that it didn’t report, Davutoglu said in an interview broadcast by TGRT television from Athens, without specifying what the equipment was. 

U.S. secret mission sent to Jordan for controlling Syrian chemical weapons: Syrian opposition fighters have taken control of Maarat al-Numan, a strategic town in Idlib province on the highway linking Damascus with the commercial hub of Aleppo, activists say.
 

"Regular forces pulled back from all of their checkpoints around Maarat al-Numan, except for one at the entrance of the town," Rami Abdel Rahman, a UK-based activist who gets information from a network of sources on the ground in Syria, said on Tuesday. "This is a strategic location on the route from Damascus to Aleppo. All the regime reinforcements headed to Aleppo must pass through Maarat al-Numan.

 U.S. secret mission sent to Jordan for controlling Syrian chemical weapons: The secret mission, led by a senior American officer, will also help in handling the estimated 180,000 Syrian refugees who have crossed the border and are severely straining the country’s resources, the report said. The task force is based at a Jordanian military training center built into an old rock quarry north of Amman.

According to the report, U.S. officials familiar with the operation said the mission includes drawing up plans to try to insulate Jordan, a strong U.S., from the upheaval in Syria and to avoid the kind of clashes now occurring along the border of Syria and Turkey. “We have been working closely with our Jordanian partners on a variety of issues related to Syria for some time now,” 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215095/NATO-protect-defend-Turkey-Syria-launches-attack-says-head-alliance.html NATO will 'protect and defend Turkey' if Syria launches an attack, says head of NATO:

 NATO will 'protect and defend Turkey' if Syria launches an attack, says head of alliance  Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO will support Turkey if it is attacked by Syria. Tensions have been escalating since Syrian shells struck a border town in Turkey killing five civilians last week. Syria's revolt against President Bashar al-Assad threatening to draw in regional powers.
 

  Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hong Li, expressed in a press conference on Tuesday, reported by Xinhua news agency, his country's concern with the current conditions in Syria and their repercussions. 

 The Chinese spokesman's statement came at a time when the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues escalating the situation and threats of action against Damascus while going ahead with smuggling terrorists and weapons into Syria to disturb its stability. 

You have to be very concerned about what is happening in Syria. I still have a problem believing Russia, China, and Iran are  going to allow Syria to fall to Democracy. 

What we saw after the voter fraud in Iran was mild compared to what the IRG will do if this movement spreads to Iran. I really wish Bashar would step down but Iran is the elephant in the room any way you look at it. 

The total middle east breakdown we have written about numerous times is well under way. We can only hope we keep it from erupting into WW3.

In closing: You know Putin just got himself reelected as President, he did this so he could be at the helm of Russia as he like me knows 100% that world war is our future. He plans on marshaling China who is rapidly building a more formidable military and whoever he can to take on US hegemony.

Russia watched helplessly as we had our way in Libya. Putin blames what is happening in Syria on our interference and Libya for training the protesters to fight against Bashar Al-Assad.

Putin is going to do everything possible to keep us from helping the Syrian people and I really feel for them. I do not see this going down the way Libya did and Iran and Russia are going to make sure it does not.

 I am afraid the Syrian people are going to be sacrificed, sacrificed in what is merely an opening salvo in this the wars for future dominance. I  heard that Russia is gathering forces to go into Iran via Armenia for a quick strike through Georgia. 

We have a showdown setting up that looks disastrous for the worlds future. It will be a miracle if we can keep this from turning into WW3!



James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

It is high time Pakistani's and Afghani's rise up unite and eradicate this vermin enemy of Islam "the Taliban"!

Islam unite against the Taliban our worst enemy

  YOU ARE EITHER WITH THE TALIBAN OR AGAINST THEM; THERE IS NO THIRD OPTION: ALTAF HUSSAIN The entire nation will have to come forward against the heartless killers. The cowardly attack on Malala Yousufzai is an attack on Islam and the bright face of Pakistan: Altaf Hussain The Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Mr Altaf Hussain has said that Malala Yousufzai is the symbol of knowledge which the Taliban want to suppress.


 It's appalling enough that 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who publicly championed the cause of education for girls in Pakistan, was shot in the head and neck and critically injured by gunmen who boarded her school bus in the Swat Valley. 

Even more horrendous is that a Taliban spokesman declared that she had been singled out for attack because of her support of girls' education in defiance of Taliban edict. "Let this be a lesson," the spokesman told the New York Times. We hope it will be a lesson — that such violence is barbaric and counterproductive. It has no place in today's world. Not in Pakistan or Afghanistan or anywhere else.  Even worse is they say they will make sure they kill her next time. It is high time Pakistani's and Afghani's rise up unite and eradicate this vermin enemy of Islam "the Taliban!

 Pakistan Erupts in Anger Over Taliban's Shooting of Schoolgirl: A Taliban gunman singled out and shot the girl, Malala Yousafzai, on Tuesday, and a spokesman said it was in retaliation for her work in promoting girls’ education and children’s rights in the northwestern Swat Valley, near the Afghan border. Across the rest of the country, Pakistanis reacted with outrage to the attack on the girl, whose eloquent and determined advocacy of girls’ education had made her powerful symbol of resistance to Taliban ideology. 

“Malala is our pride. She became an icon for the country,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. Even Jamaat ud Dawa, the charity wing of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which follows a different strain of Islam from the Taliban, condemned the attack. The anger was amplified by the Taliban’s brazen claims of responsibility for the shooting, and avowals that the group would attack Ms. Yousafzai again if it got a second chance. Reports circulated that the Taliban had also promised to target her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who privately appealed to neighbors from Swat not to visit the hospital in case of a second attack. 

 Gibson writes movingly of the terror that ordinary folks in Pakistan feel as U.S. drones fly overhead, targeting insurgents but also killing innocent civilians. "And that presence is steadily destroying a community twice the size of Rhode Island. Parents are afraid to send their children to school. Women are afraid to meet in markets. Families are afraid to gather at funerals for people wrongly killed in earlier strikes. Drivers are afraid to deliver food from other parts of the country." 

 

And her conclusion? "Of course, we should ask whether drones are legal under international law; my view is that they are not. Of course, we should ask whether drones are counterproductive; my view is that they are." But here's what I wonder: What would Gibson say to Malala Yousafzai?  Gibson's right. People are cowering in terror in their homes in Pakistan, fearful of U.S. drones. But there are many kinds of terror, and in Pakistan, too much of it is home-grown. So at this point, those terrible, deadly drones help Americans -- and girls like Malala Yousafzai -- sleep at night, knowing that they keep the Taliban from doing the same.

Panetta served notice on the Taliban that it will not be able to derail the NATO plan. 

 “As I said to my fellow ministers, we have come too far, we have fought too many battles, we have spilled too much blood not to finish the job that we are all about," he said. "Whatever tactics the enemy throws at us — IEDs [improvised explosive devices], insider attacks, car bombs — we will not allow those tactics to divide us from our Afghan partners, and we will not allow those tactics to divert us from the mission that we are dedicated to.” Panetta said the allied effort is “succeeding” and “has turned an important corner,”

There is more than a real risk that the Taliban will take over, it is a foregone conclusion and the people know it. Mullah Omar was invited to join the upcoming election in Afghanistan and he did not respond. He did not have to he knows when we are gone so is corrupt Karzai.

 I remember during the election with Abdullah and Karzai's victory was found to be grossly corrupt the people just shrugged and said one corrupt Government is the same as the next.

That said, the people would be wise to remember the cutting off of heads and hands that is routine for the Taliban and how stifling it is under their rule. As a whole they should remember the thousands of them the Taliban have purposely killed.

 They should form Lashkar's (civilian defense against the Taliban) and eliminate the Taliban or life as they want it is over.

I just do not get it. If those people know how bad their life is going to be under the Taliban then why do they not fight to defeat them? *Vietnam all over again regardless of what they say. They are now offering the Taliban to join in the Government.

I really do not care what they do. Our soldiers did their job. We should get them out now with heads held high for a job well done. They have performed magnificently.The Taliban are going to take over again regardless and the people know it that is why everyone who can is making preparations to get out now. Afghan and Pakistani citizens better unite against the Taliban and now before NATO leaves or they are in serious trouble.


James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://httpanaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Global warming 2012: After Warmest 12-Months On Record, U.S. Poised To See Warmest Year Ever In 2012

Read the stories you need to in order to understand the dire straits man and the planet are in!

 

After Warmest 12-Months On Record, U.S. Poised To See Warmest Year Ever In 2012: The August 2011-July 2012 temperature beat the previous pre-2012 record by over half a degree Fahrenheit! Of course, if we keep doing nothing about human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, these records will be broken on an increasingly frequent basis 

— see Our hellish future: Definitive NOAA-led report on U.S. climate impacts warns of scorching 9 to 11°F warming over most of inland U.S. by 2090 with Kansas above 90°F some 120 days a year — and that isn’t the worst case, it’s business as usual! And for those who actually care about future generations, there is every reason to believe that the Earth would just keep getting hotter and hotter: Science stunner — On our current emissions path, CO2 levels in 2100 will hit levels last seen when the Earth was 29°F (16°C) hotter: 

Remember last year? 7/18/2010 No global warming?  2010 will be the hottest year on record! Can anyone say water wars?

8/12/2010 Berserk weather: Russia fires reach Chernobyl, UN warns of 2nd wave of death in Pakistan, Rains threaten China mudslide disaster zone

8/9/2010 Global warming raising hell with worlds weather

4/10/2012 We wonder why some wantonly destroy our planet, now I remember why

8/10/2012 Top Ten Things Climate Change Is Making Worse Right Now By Rebecca Leber and Ellie Sandmeyer

3/2/2007 This is the closest To the truth I have heard yet about Global Warming and I'm afraid it's true!

I have to say that those who have read my articles on the state of the planet know these observations might not be pleasant but I am afraid it is as bad as all that.

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

Iran and Turkey Join Syria Peace Envoy in Call for Truce as Syria drops cluster bombs on Maaret al-Numan: rebels: Peace?

  Syrian regime warplanes have dropped cluster bombs in sorties against rebels in the northwestern town of Maaret al-Numan, the insurgents told AFP on Friday. The rebels showed an AFP correspondent in the battleground Idlib province town debris from one such cluster bomb and dozens of other bomblets that failed to explode on impact.

The devices bore markings in the Cyrillic script used in several Eastern European countries, including Russia -- a key ally of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Bomb Blast Rocks Beirut, Killing at Least Eight

  Iran and Turkey Join Syria Peace Envoy in Call for Truce:  Iran declared support on Wednesday for the new Syria peace envoy’s cease-fire proposal, joining Turkey in a rare moment of accord between two of the regional powers backing opposite sides in the 19-month conflict that has pitted the Syrian government against an array of armed opponents.

Both Turkey and Iran publicly endorsed Mr. Brahimi’s effort on Wednesday. Those endorsements were significant because Iran is the most influential regional supporter of Mr. Assad’s, while Turkey supports Mr. Assad’s armed adversaries, is host to more than 100,000 Syrian refugees and has repeatedly called on Mr. Assad to resign. 

I reiterate there wullo be no viable cease fire, there will be no peace want it or not. This will continue for years regardless, the so called civil war has already crossed Borders and eventually the entire middle east will be engulfed. There will never be fair elections with Assad at the helm. Any kind o f election will see him gone and that would be unacceptable for Russia and Iran. 

 

It absolutely will not end. It will continue without the direction of Assad. Maybe the Alawite's may no longer be leading it against the Sunni majority and Christian minority but it will continue. Only now the Sunni may be leading it against the Alawite's who will continue to be armed and reinforced by Iran. The Russians will meanwhile have gone nowhere and the big unknown is the large Chinese military contingency in the area.

This is all about the future direction of the entire middle east. The goal absolutely is to be the country who decides which direction the new Middle East (dis)order will take. Bush started it by attacking Iraq to get into the middle east to destabilize it and start the new middle east order the idiot said God told him to do now it will be up to Iran and Saudi Arabia (Al Qaeda?) at least up front fight it out whether this goes the Iranian Shiite way or the Saudi Arabian Sunni way and do not forget Israel!

The goal absolutely is to be the country who decides which direction the new middle east (dis)order will take. Bush started it by attacking Iraq to get into the middle east to destabilize it and start the new middle east order the idiot said God told him to do now it will be up to Iran and Saudi Arabia at least up front fight it out whether this goes the Iranian Shiite way or the Saudi Arabian Sunni way and do not forget Israel!

Both Iran and Saudi Arabia have been using Lebanon and now Syria as their battlefront, up to now they have been able to avoid direct confrontation. Iran has pumped millions of dollars in supplies and arms into Lebanon and Syria much to the consternation of her suffering people while Saudi Arabia has been supporting the Palestinian Authority.

So far there has been no direct confrontation. However I absolutely see what I have been warning about since Bush diverted from Afghanistan to attack Iraq and get back in the middle east to create a new middle east (dis)order! I do not give a damn what anyone says. Bush, Cheney, and their Democratization program in an already historically unstable middle east set all of this and more in motion!

The hell on earth Bush created for Iraqi’s will engulf the entire Middle East before it encompasses the entire world if we can not contain it. Under Bush we broke a long standing tradition of not adding fuel to the Middle East fire by supplying weapons. We are now, including advanced weaponry and missile defense systems. The Middle East breakdown Bush started armed and funded is continuing under Obama. This up to now proxy war in the middle east is under way. 

You know I firmly believe and have said so a million times by now that since 9/11 everything was construed to allow Bush to gain the power he needed to prosecute his new order not just in the Middle East but on the entire world! He diverted from Afghanistan to get back into the Middle East with the goal of setting up a larger safety zone for Israel and going after Iran. Both will fail!

It has long been my contention that coming to Israel's aid once they attack Iran will be our in to Iran but with Iran, the Gulf, Syria, and everything else who knows what will happen first. 
We must contain this to the middle east and keep it from turning into WW3. This must be a middle east fight and problem or the entire world is in dire trouble and we have too much already as we try to move successfully through the 21st century. I am afraid we are failing our children in every regard.



James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com

US suspects Haqqani tie to Afghan insider attacks: It's about time, kill them!

US suspects Haqqani tie to Afghan insider attacks: Until now, officials had said the attacks seemed to stem either from personal grievances against the allies or from Taliban infiltration. The Taliban has publicly claimed to be orchestrating the campaign to subvert the U.S.-Afghan alliance.New data provided to The Associated Press this week also reveal that in addition to 35 U.S. and allied troops killed in insider attacks last year, 61 were wounded.

Those included 19 in a single attack in the eastern province of Laghman on April 16, 2011, in which six American servicemen were killed. Thus far in 2012 there have been 53 killed and at least 80 wounded, the figures showed. Haqqani involvement in the plotting would add a new dimension to that group's insurgent activity, which has been marked largely by spectacular attacks against targets inside Kabul. Haqqani leaders have pledged allegiance to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, but the group largely operates independently. The two groups have a shared interest in evicting foreign forces.

It's about time! Jalaluddin Haqqani legendary leader who fought the Soviets and his son, Sirajuddin  hate the fact that infidells are on their land and of course have openly vowed to attack and kill as many as possible until we leave. They have been the ones behind all the attacks on bases ans government buildings and have admitted it.

It is only common sense that they are behind the recent spate of attacks on NATO trainers by so called rogue Afghani's. We have essentially brought all segments against us leaving peacefully and forming a Government to their knees with the exception of the Haqqani's who have lost many fighters and top commanders including recently Badruddin another son of Jalaluddin.

Top Haqqani commander killed in US drone strikes in Pakistan: Badruddin Haqqani, the key operational commander of the al-Qaida linked Haqqani network, and top Pakistani Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah are believed to have been killed in US drone and air strikes in the tribal region of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Badruddin, the son of Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, is ranked as a deputy to his elder brother and the network's chief Sirajuddin and was believed to be killed in one of the five volleys of drone strikes in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan since August 18.

That is not enough though. In order to stop the Haqqani network we are going to have to take out the top. We know some in the ISI, military, and Government have been complicit with them since the Soviets wee in Afghanistan so they know where they are.

Haqqani 101: With the death of Osama Bin Laden we were asked what his death would mean for the war in Afghanistan. Like the so called war on terror which includes the Taliban, Al Qaeda of every creed, and extremists of every ilk looking to carry on Osama's vendetta against the west, it will serve to fuel their cause like many other issues. His death should mean just the opposite and it does to all true Muslims.

In searching though I found them to be known rapists and murderers and of course not true Muslims or faithful followers of Muhammad and true Islam. Some of the Haqqani's and commanders have even been captured and held after traveling to Saudi Arabia for the haj and gathering donations for their cause.

The Haqqani's and their legendary stature are holding the so called terrorists force together. Their stature is legendary and hard earned. The Haqqani network and their increasingly foreign fighters have become the main focus after 9 years of fighting. The Haqqani Network's North Waziristan leadership -- usually called the Miram Shah Shura consists of a number of Haqqani family members and closely associated long-serving commanders.

At the top of the network is Sirajuddin Haqqani, who oversees the group's political and military activities and is the main liaison to the Mullah Muhammad Omar led Quetta Shura Taliban, the Taliban's leadership body (named for the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province). He is also one of the network's liaisons to Pakistani Taliban figures and AL-Qaeda.

He travels regularly into Afghanistan " or should I say did as he now claims to be based in Afghanistan" to coordinate with field commanders and occasionally to Peshawar and South Waziristan to connect with militants there. Remember Bowe Bergdhal? There are many field commanders in Afghanistan, but turnover is high because many get killed or captured. The most prominent is Mullah Sangin, who is believed to be holding Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl a captured U.S. soldier and Zakim Shah the movement's shadow governor of Khost province.

There are many field commanders in Afghanistan, but turnover is high because many get killed or captured. The most prominent is Mullah Sangin, who is believed to be holding Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl a captured U.S. soldier and Zakim Shah the movement's shadow governor of Khost province. Inside the Haqqani network

Jalaluddin Haqqani legendary leader who fought the Soviets and his son, Sirajuddin who directs operations are increasingly the targets of drones and now manned NATO aircraft in Pakistan as the Pakistani's have been leery to go in the area for whatever reason. Many are being killed, I heard over 80 in a week with no civilian casualties.

I wish we would quickly kill the two head Haqqani's, both Jalaluddin and Sirajuddin and leave the rest to Pakistan as our invasion of their country even to kill Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters who were known killers of NATO forces may be the straw that broke the camels back. People in Pakistan are increasinglyy marching to have the drone attacks stopped. Fine! If you want the drones stopped then stop the Haqqani's. We know someone there can kill or stop them at will.

I would hate to see the Haqqani network unite with Pakistan " who they once had close ties with particularly the ISI", against us as Pakistan is still furious and rightly so though it may be a ploy to placate civilians. I wish we would just come home. I do not want to see the scenario I discussed many times and that is taking on Pakistan from the Gulf and don't forget Iran!

Anyway you look at it we are viewed as temporary and the violent convoluted backstabbing tribal relationships will always be a way of life in the border area especially. We can only be very concerned how this is going to turn out between NATO, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It won't be translucent or good!

The Haqqani's seem true to Mullah Omar who wants us out of Afghanistan and want their independent Afghanistan. Pakistan has proven they do not want a free and independent Afghanistan but want to control it. At this point I want to say our soldiers have done their job let them come home as scheduled if not sooner. Let Mullah Omar the Haqqani's and other Taliban interests fight for Afghanistan it is theirs not ours or Pakistan's. Good luck Hamid Karzai that's all I say!


James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com