(Tokyo)“The Black Sun Has Gone”
(Le soleil noir a disparu)
SECTION I: Pakistan
The New York Times reported on Pakistan’s Election:
Early results showed equal gains for the Pakistan Peoples Party, whose leader, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated on Dec. 27, and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the faction led by Nawaz Sharif, like Ms. Bhutto a former prime minister. Each parties may be in a position to form the next government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/world/asia/19pstan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
BBC also reported on the early outcomes of the election:
Polls suggest a fair vote is likely to result in a hung parliament, with none of the three biggest parties winning a majority, analysts suggest.
Attention will then turn on the PPP, and whether it chooses to join forces with pro-Musharraf parties, or with Mr Sharif's party.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7249455.stm
Everybody got shocked by the 9/11 Terror in 2001. But, a few people have tried, since then, to understand and save Afghan people who had mistakenly helped, in a technical term, AlQaeda who performed the 9/11 Terror.
More fewer people in the world have been trying to understand and save Pakistanis who had helped, though somewhat in a selfish manner, those Afghans who mistakenly helped AlQaeda who eventually performed the 9/11 Terror.
For example, it is said that the Pakistan’s support for the Taliban had been intensified when Benazir Bhutto was the prime minister of Pakistan for a few years until 1996.
It is truly deplorable that some people are being addicted to some conspiracy theory to point at the Bush Administration as a mastermind of the 9/11 Terror, instead of trying to understand and save Pakistanis and Afghans suffering from so many acts of terror and unthinkable poverty.
To diffuse some conspiracy theory pointing at the Bush Administration as the mastermind of the 9/11 Terror is apparently a true conspiracy, since believers of the conspiracy theory will not try to understand and save poor Pakistanis and Afghans suffering so many acts of terror and unthinkable poverty since the Era of Occupation by the British Empire, thus allowing terrorists and beneficiaries of such terror to escape from the enforcement of justice and further build their scheme of violent or sophisticated terror crimes if not targeting the U.S.
The only sin for the Bush Administration, in this context, is their selfish pursuit of finding and holding a chance to mobilize the US military to attack Saddam Hussein and drive him out of the power of the nation Iraq.
What the true motivation for President Mr. George Bush to have pursued such a chance in a somewhat perfidious manner was is another matter, though so profoundly connected with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
SECTION II: Israel vs. Iran
It is very interesting to read an opinion of a US think tank on Israel vs. Iran.
If Israel does not act, Iran will likely secure an understanding with Arab states, notwithstanding suspicions about Persian hegemony. Shia and Sunni will be united with one goal in mind: the elimination of the Zionist state.
If Israel does act — even if its actions are successful — the Arab street will be aroused. Suicide bombings would multiply. Al Qaeda would try to destabilize Pakistan in the hope it can get its hands on a nuclear weapon. Muslim extremism would gain traction everywhere on the globe and Israel would be isolated, perhaps even estranged from the United States with politicians decrying Israeli bellicosity.
- Dr. Herbert London, president of Hudson Institute -
http://blog.thehill.com/2008/02/18/the-israeli-dilemma/#more-5364
One of the factors US voters should take into serious consideration in the 2008 Presidential Election Race is how Mr. McCain, Mr. Obama, or Mrs. Clinton will deal with Israel and Iran, since Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat were gone.
Put simply, Israel is now enjoying an unthinkably elevated degree of security in comparison with the situation in and after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War
Since then, Egypt has virtually allied with the U.S.; the Soviet Union collapsed; Iraq and Iran consumed their national power through the Iran-Iraq War; Saddam Hussein was eliminated from Baghdad forever; PLO lost Yasser Arafat forever; US Military is still occupying Iraq; Islamic states around the Persian Gulf are now rich members of the global money market where super-rich Israelite Americans/Europeans are major players; and Saudi Arabia is all the more thankful to the U.S. who has been suppressing AlQaeda, a dangerous factor to the Saudi Arabian Government now enjoying big oil dollars.
Indeed, except minor skirmishes that never topple the foundation of Israel, the only remote concern for Israel is nuclear-armed Iran trying to establish itself as the leader of the Islamic world or the sole guardian of Mecca.
But, will Iran dare launch nuclear-armed attacks on Israel to establish itself as the leader of the Islamic world or the sole guardian of Mecca?
Can Iran achieve the aim through their use of nuclear weapons against Israel by making enemy of the U.S., EU, Japan, Persian Gulf Arab states now enjoying unthinkable prosperity and supporting the Wall Street, and all the other nations including China and Russia who still need a friendly relationship with the U.S., EU, and Japan?
Iranian people have far longer history than Anglo-Saxons. They are not savages. They are capable of playing a very sophisticated game which is pursued for their glory but not for total destruction.
Indeed, US voters should take into serious consideration in the 2008 Presidential Election Race how Mr. McCain, Mr. Obama, or Mrs. Clinton will deal with Israel and Iran, since Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat were gone, though Mr. Osama bin Laden is reportedly still at large around the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan or in Saudi Arabia according to Mr. Michael Moore’s theory.
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As President Mr. Bush cannot arrest Mr. Osama bin Laden, he is expected to try to achieve some results in the North Korean issue.
If North Korea completely abandons its nuclear arms development program and concludes a kind of peace treaty with South Korea through the intermediation of the US President who can leverage Chinese support and Japan’s advice, Mr. Bush will honorably leave the White House in 2009.
Therefore, the role Ms. Condoleezza Rice should play is going to be all the more important.
Run for the 2012 Presidential Election, ” Condoleezza!”
(Yesterday, an NHK FM radio channel in Japan played songs by I George, a Japanese singer who, as the first among Japanese, held a recital in the Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1963.
I almost forgot the song “Johnny the Glass (garasu-no Johnny)” for a very long time; but it was still nice to hear it again.
Especially its words, “the black sun has gone as eyelids fall; indeed a memory of your loving woman will someday fade away…,” are somehow still moving.
Truly, two beautiful women have gone in Paris and Karachi in this decade, or specifically in 1997 and 2007.
But, aren’t there others who would advance over their tragedies for the true glory of the God or Allah, since “Johnny the Glass” is still being played waiting for oblivion or limbo?
[http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TECA-1001])
“With All Boldness and Freedom”
(Mit allen Mut und die Freiheit)