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December02, 2011 "Daily Record"-----EVEN by the usual standards of American "friendly fire" incidents, the attack on Pakistani troops by US Apache helicopter gunships on Friday was potentially world changing.
This was neither misguided drone attack, nor a missile misfiring.
It was the mass murder of 24 Pakistani soldiers.
That the deaths came so soon after the killings by Nato of five Afghan children in the city of Kandahar goes to show there are no blunders too great for our occupation force.
Think-tanks and working parties wonder why Muslims are being "radicalized".
All that's needed for such radicalization is the ability to switch on the TV news.
When I was a teenager Scottish regiments, under tabloid hero Colonel "Mad" Mitch Mitchell, were rampaging through the Crater District of Aden in the Yemen, shooting all that moved.
We were encouraged to believe murdering the natives was necessary to keep "our" possessions "East of Suez".
It failed, we failed. And the brave people of Yemen are showing every day, by overthrowing the dictatorship we helped to fashion, that no good can come of this endless killing.
As Burns would have put it, the natives are merely nursing their wrath, to keep it warm.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29873.htm
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With the war winding down in Iraq; there is a possibility that the attack on Pakistan was maneuvered by the ghosts in the White House to keep the war industry booming. They must have calculated that a low intensity conflict in Pakistan will keep energizing the war in Afghanistan. It is more profitable but less risky than a war with Iran that could be catastrophic.
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