This is actually an answer to a message board at the NY Times after Wolfowitz had written an editorial for them. The last paragraph is most stark in realizing the 'discovery' over time I have been experiencing and continuing to do so, is actually realized by authority at very high levels of global operating stability.
I am not alone in my assertions. Kindly note the last paragraph, I'll note it twice.
Wolfy, I find the title to your editorial STRANGE...
...but, I guess that is nothing new for someone who wants COMPLETE control of Islam.
"The First Draft of Freedom"
There is nothing new about the concept of 'freedom' in Indonesia. What I do find interesting is that you and your buddy Bush always seem to focus on OPEC countries which of course Indonesia is one. The ‘problems’ of civil unrest in Indonesia revolves around the intolerance of religions within Indonesia, namely Muslim and Catholic. The government of Indonesia has worked to ‘contain’ the violence but in an island country that is also commercially ‘a tropical paradise’ it is difficult to strike a balance.
I suggest your friend, Mr. Harimuti, is that his name, find an appeals court if indeed he is not guilty because it sounds as though the government has a case. Maybe you could pull some strings for him. Although I doubt Bush's Administration has much clout in Indonesia these days.
You know, Wolfy, when 9-11 first occurred President Megawati paid a personal visit to the Oval Office within days, kindly note citation below.
U.S. and Indonesia on Terror and Tolerance
Joint Statement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Indonesia on Terrorism and Religious Tolerance
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/2 [...]
During her time with George Bush she advocated tolerance of the Muslim Religion and a caution that the way the USA does business in the world has resulted in the attacks of September 11th. That of course was before the illegal invasion into Iraq, so I doubt the relationship then still continues. Since that visit there have been innumerable JOURNALISTIC pieces (Since you seem to ‘respect’ journalists as friends.) stating that the USA in it’s self righteous approach to ‘terrorism’ under Walker Bush causes the very human rights violations it states it’s intentions are otherwise.
Kindly note citations below: Indonesia, East Timor and the Western Powers
http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/01decpowers.htm
A Case Study of The Role of Western Foreign Policy in Conflict Creation and Peace Sabotage
“In the wake of the 11th September 2001 attacks on the United States, the formation of an international coalition against terrorism under American leadership has been based on the conventional premise that Western civilisation has some sort of superior moral status within world order which permits it to be the principal initiator of a war on terror. The idea that the Western powers may have a systematic role in perpetrating terror, undermining democracy and promoting human rights abuses around the world to secure their strategic and economic interests poses a severe challenge to the notion that the West can play a meaningful role in combating terror…”
“In the wake of the 11th September 2001 attacks on the United States, the formation of an international coalition against terrorism under American leadership has been based on the conventional premise that Western civilisation has some sort of superior moral status within world order which permits it to be the principal initiator of a war on terror. The idea that the Western powers may have a systematic role in perpetrating terror, undermining democracy and promoting human rights abuses around the world to secure their strategic and economic interests poses a severe challenge to the notion that the West can play a meaningful role in combating terror…”
. . . The idea that the Western powers may have a systematic role in perpetrating terror, undermining democracy and promoting human rights abuses around the world to secure their strategic and economic interests poses a severe challenge to the notion that the West can play a meaningful role in combating terror…”
That is from Institute for Policy Research & Development, Suite 414, 91 Western Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2NW, United Kingdom.
Other citations can be found here:
http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/crimes.htm
continued... the message continued but is not featured hear.
The stark reality of June 8, 2005 is in realizing the invasion into Iraq with Bush and Blair repeatedly standing by their original rhetoric; was actually an economic invasion for the oil glut of Iraq gives more and more credence to those words spoken some time ago:
The idea that the Western powers may have a systematic role in perpetrating terror, undermining democracy and promoting human rights abuses around the world to secure their strategic and economic interests poses a severe challenge to the notion that the West can play a meaningful role in combating terror…”
