Current Events of Sorts

$900 million to Gaza

Well, a lot of the comments in the CNN political ticker (which I have some stuff to say about) are against this with the argument that "we need to help ourselves before these people." To them I just say piss off, they need it more than we do. When you live in squalor for fifty years without all the trademark American amenities then you get to say we need it more than they do. Go to Gaza and see how they get on, then you'll see why.

Gates calls Pakistan 'Most Worrisome'

Funny thing is, a lot of people took this one to mean that he actually thought Pakistan itself is most worrisome. It made me laugh. He's calling the Taliban in Pakistan and the freedoms (lolwut?) Pakistan is giving to them. Also, a lot of people said we must go in and do the job right. What the hell is that supposed to mean? Invade a sovereign country again? What is it Iraq: The Sequel? And invade a nuclear country at that, no, just no. Though if we did, we'd have the full support of India. They don't like Pakistan much either. Well, really at all. They are rivals after all. They'd be happy to drop a few nukes here and there, and so would Pakistan right back. But MAD (mutually assured destruction, it's a Cold War thing (and the only reason I believe there was never an actual war between us and the Soviet Union (which I'll talk about in awhile))). Anyways, we just need to adopt guerrilla warfare. Turn it to conventional war. Don't leave it to them (the 'enemy'). That will never happen though. But yeah, conventional warfare does not work against unconventional warfare (Gaza v. Israel is a model of that).

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Those are really the only ones that caught my eye. Anyways, I'm going to talk about the Soviet Union v. the US in this one.

I believe that we were working to avoid war together. In other words (if you haven't read or seen The Sum of All Fears then this will make little sense to you), the US intelligence services (and high up advisers and what not) and the same for the Soviet Union were working together as much as against each other. I think that they were trying to keep, even when things got heated, everything below the boiling point. And they did a good job of it until the Soviet machine collapsed under its own weight.

I just think we were as much friends as enemies. Just wish we didn't lose their alliance after WWII.