Posted on 11/14/2008 12:08:11 AM PST by nickcarraway
First Lady Laura Bush condemned on Thursday a recent assault on Afghani schoolgirls, describing the act as "cowardly and shameful."
On Wednesday adult male attackers used a water pistol to spray acid at schoolgirls in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, hurting 15 of them, three seriously.
"My heart goes out to the victims and their families as they recover from this cruel attack," said Bush in a statement.
Kandahar and other large Afghan cities have suffered from a surge of assassinations and bombings by the radical Islamist Taliban movement.
Bush commended Afghani women and girls for thriving in a country where just nine years ago, under Taliban rule that lasted between 1996 and 2001, women were denied many basic rights, includingf trading.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 6.67 per cent on Thursday as investors looked for bargains after a punishing three-day market sell-off, setting aside more bleak economic and corporate news.
"The rally is just driven by bargain hunting after the sharp dips," said Kazuhiro Takahashi, equity trading information chief at Daiwa Securities SMBC.
There are no high expectations for the talks on the global economic crisis starting in Washington on Friday, he said.
United at the Emirates, and the murmurs of a discontent would have swelled to a fully-fledged roar.
Then, as suddenly as it had erupted, the doubts died down. United were vanquished 2-1 in a breathless, brilliant spectacle which encapsulated all that is great about Wenger's purist philosophy.
The club's largely teenage second string the delivered an encore with the kind of coruscating performance against Wigan in the League Cup which gives the lie to the old adage that youth is wastid.
"We have lost one competition and this is not normal for us. We want to win all competitions and we need to understand this. Now it is time to start to work for Saturday's game."
If Scolari could cherry-pick a match in which to exorcise the memories of Wednesday night, a trip to West Brom might just be it. The West Midlanders are one of the more stylish sides to have emerged from the Championship in recent seasons, but their vibrant attacking play cannot mask their soft centre.
But South Korean midfielder Park Ji-Sung insists that United remain firmly in the hunt for the title, despite the early setbacks.
Park said: "We lost against Arsenal, which was obviously not good, but we're still in the season and there are many matches ahead, so I'm not worried."
Despite an impressive home record this term, Stoke have picked up just two points away from the Britannia Stadium, but Jamaican striker Ricardo Fuller insists that the squad has what it takes to improve on that record.
Fuller said: "We've beaten Arsenal and drawn at Liverpool, so when you're performing in those games it's ideal for building confidence.
"If you take your chances when they come, you can beat anybody. We did it against Arsenal, and Arsenal managed it against United last weekend."
Fuller claims that criticism labelled at Stoke since their victory over Arsenal has been unfair and wide of the mark.
He said: "We're not dirty, we're definitely fair. What has happened in the last few weeks with Arsenal is done and dusted.
"If they had got three points, they wouldn't have spoken about it. But that happens in football, people try to deflect what the real topic should be about."
I am guessing coherence is not a strong point for Hindustan Times writers. Very bizarre article indeed.
“We can agree to disagree on some other points.”
True. No matter how we disagree among ourselves, we have to remember who the real enemy is, and it isn’t us.
“I get so weary of reminding those who refuse to face reality that this is the case. It has been proven, repeatedly, that Islam is at war from within itself, and that we can work with some of them against the worst of the worst.”
Well, the fact is, Islam was at war with itself from its very inception. THroughout its history since the 600’s Muslims have been more than willing to slaughter one another over doctrinal and hereditary rights. But in NO CASE has this diverted them from their primary goal - wordl subjugation.
What I’m saying is we must not delude ourselves into believing that the Iraqis or even Pakistanis or Turks for that matter, are people we can trust and rely on for anything which goes beyond getting rid of an immediate threat to them. Once that threat has been nutralized, they be at our throats. Its the nature of the beast.
WE must be as committed to the destruction of Islam as Isalm is committed to OUR destruction - JUST TO STAY IN PLACE.
And so far, I haven’t seen that feeling expressed by the west yet.
Okay, then: nincompoop, pseudo conservative boob, carpetbagger-from-maine screw-up, knuckleheaded ninny, LOSER!
His tax cut pledge turned our economy around and provided increased revenue to the government. Suggest that if only he had kept taxes higher, he would have been open to overwhelming force in Iraq is wrong on two counts...you get MORE revenue with proper tax cuts, not less, and we DID
I was very much in favor of the cuts but, after 9-11, all bets were off IMO. The attack, to me anyway, ranks up there with Pearl Harbor and response should have required a Declaration of War against Islamic fanaticism--meaning a draft and a quick, decisive and dedicated effort to root out and destroy extremists.
To...Rumsfeld held great sway with Bush in terms of the number of troops needed, as did Tommy Franks. They apparently thought the Afghanistan approach where we didn’t need a lot of troops but used the Northern Alliance and our CIA and military intel forces to quickly topple the Taliban, was the way to go, militarily...they all seemed to miss-call the Iraq insurgency until it was rolling along like a juggernaut. I do agree with you that overwhelming force was called for in the early days. Later, when Petraeus had to come along and save a desperate situation, those who called for levelling Fallujah - to cite one example of many - rather than the Petraeus approach of working with the Sheiks and turning them on Al Qaida - were very wrong. Petraeus was right.
And, the fact then, is that BUSH AND RUMSFELD WERE WRONG! Sorry, but I hold people in important positions accountable for their actions. Rumsfeld, though belatedly after "we took a tumpin'", was fired and I suppose you could say that Bush was repudiated on Nov. 4 (though many here still blame McCain/Palin). Still, there is a lot of residual anger and resentment on my part about what could have been and I remain dubious that the ill feeling I have about the second-worse president of my lifetime will ever go away.
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