America in Arabic

أمريكا مؤسسة على فكرة الخرية الفردية

الحكومة تعمل من أجلنا و تخدمنا

الفكرة أن كل رجل هو ملك نفسه

و أن الله لم يعطى أحد قوة على أحد

الحكومة لا تعطى شي لاى شخص ولا تأخذ شى من أي شخص

الرخاء الأ قتصا دى نتيخة حتمية للحرية

الرجاء الأ قتصادى الحقيقى يأتى فقط للأحرار

الحكومة تعرف الحقوق و لكن لا تعطيها

Capitalism in Arabic

انا اؤمن بالرأسمالية

انا اؤمن مهام الحكومة هي حماية المكية الفردية

انا اؤمن أقيم الأ شياء لدى الفرد (الانسان) هي جياته وجريته

الأستخدام القانوني الويد للقوه هو للرد الى العنف أو السرقة

الحكومة ليس لها الحق أن تأخذ ضريبة دخل

ليس للحكومة احق أن تتيح أو تمنع شي ألا أذا أثبتت ضرورة ذلك

في المختمع الحر الشرطة في خدمة الشار و ليست في خدمة الحكومة

مثلا ، وظيقة الشرطي هي واجب الشعب

لا يجب على ألسرطة حيازة أسلحة أذا المواطن لا يستطيع امتلا كما، و لا تستطيع الشرطة أخذ موقف أذا المواطن لا يستطيع

و ليطبيق العكس معنا أن الشرطه هم جنود محتلين أو عصابة أجرميه

We Need to Win in Iraq

9/11 was the result of the containment of Iraq.

Where I disagree with the standard current position of the moderate left in the US is that they think that containment of Iraq was a success, and that continuing that policy was possible.

For me, prior to 9/11 a pull out of the region and let Saddam be was possible, if maybe not a desirable solution.

After 9/11 it was not, it would have signaled our military and moral defeat by the hands of religious fanatics, through terrorism, and I believe that many more attacks would have followed.

From my conversations with locals all over the Arab world, from Saudi, to Egypt to Iraq, a common belief is that their local secular tyrants are propped up by the US. They believe that if we fall so will Israel and their anti Islamic oppressors.

Also, I don't think that at this point abandoning Israel would help US with these guys. We are blamed for their losses in the various Arab/Israeli wars. I have talked to many educated Arabs who have told me that the only reason the Arabs lost was because the US put our troops dressed as Israelis into the war. They would continue to believe that we support Israel, even if we did.

I am going to vote for Ron Paul, and I hope his methods and ideas in foreign policy works, and I think we should cease to give Israel and Egypt the Billions.

And I think that a hands off policy in the middle east will eventually ease hatred of America.

But I don't think pulling troops out of Iraq will do us any good. I think winning there will do us ample good, it will do the region well, and the world in general.
And I think we can win.

Winning in Iraq would for me consist of a free market, a free press, and free elections. (no matter who wins that election the first two or three times).

A free Iraq would be a prosperous nation inevitably, and would be the envy of the region. Also, though religious extremism will undoubtedly be expressed, the majority of the masses would prevail I believe when these things with all their ugliness are exposed, just as anti racism prevailed in the US when the horrors of racism are exposed.

winning in Iraq

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9804

random link for the day

This one is cool about an IRS failure. http://rense.com/general78/defeat.htm

This is my Arabic language teachers blog, and it is interesting http://www.kholkhal.blogspot.com/

Random blurb about the drug war

Somehow police work always got done before no-knock raids became the tool of first resort. What is so psychotic about legalizing drugs? Any day you want to stack up the costs of the drug war (in dollars and human terms) vs. the theoretical costs of a society where people can choose which chemicals to put in their bodies, you will most likely find that the latter choice of freedom and non aggression to be the saner choice.

Shouldn’t it at least be debated? Shouldn’t we at least check to find out if permissive drug laws have led to rampant drug abuse in other countries?

1) Dangerous drugs are still being sold.
2) The selling of said drugs has been put into the hands of people who have no interest in protecting their 'customers' and often sell tainted drugs which are even more dangerous.
3) The 'customers' are forced to pay exorbitant prices for the drugs, which often forces them to commit crimes to support their habits - including the 'crime' of selling the drugs.
4) Millions of people who have done no harm to others are being criminalized.
5) The police are being turned into paramilitaries that act as an occupying army.
6) Drug cartels are destabilizing countries in the third world.

The list could go on indefinitely, but I will give only two more.

7) Despite the beliefs of many, the children are not being protected; they just stop believing their parents or the police.
8) Innocent people are being killed by the police all the time as the inevitable result, as collateral damage.

If it wasn't for drug prohibition, we wouldn't have drugs like crack or meth labs in trailer parks.
The war on drugs has created these street drugs.

Iraq developements

Developments in Iraq:

Two developments that have taken place in Iraq that I think are a going on in Iraq right now are that the Sunni tribes in the Al Anbar province have started to form their own police forces. And that the DOD has decreed that all non American contracts with the DOD shall be done by Iraqi companies. I personally think that both these developments are a great thing, and that they are long overdue.

Some see the fact that the Sunni tribes have started fielding their own police as a failure. A failure of the authority of the Iraqi government in Baghdad and of the US military. And a failure locals to work with and report to the US and Baghdad. I see it as a good thing because government should always be at the lowest possible level. And the tribe‘s need to provide protection from day to day crime and from insurgents, has at best been incompetently addressed by the US military and the government in Bagdad. So far these local police have had moderate successes. In the areas where they operate insurgent attacks have diminished. I hope that these local forces don’t grow into their own demon, and that they can stay the smallest force necessary to be effective, and that they don’t start violating the rights of the citizens they aim to protect. Also that they don’t get involved in power plays with the Baghdad government.

Contracts going to Iraqi companies also is a good thing. Iraqi capital and human resources have been fleeing the country, leaving unemployed and criminals behind. Capital from the US military in the non-handout form would be a good thing. It would give many Iraqis a stake in the Iraqi economy, and would maybe build some bridges in the great divide between Iraqis and Americans in Iraq.

If it were up to me, Iraqi companies or at least Iraqi workers would replace KBR and all the contractors and in Iraq. The military type contractors would go to only US and Iraqis.

I would probably do away with the big chow hall and all the amenities of the big bases, and get rid of the 100,000 pogues that never leave the wire. I would award each soldier over here $50 to $100 bucks a day more (easily a bargain having gotten rid of the hundred thousand pogues), and I the troops could get their meals and services with their dollars, and a whole Iraqi economy would arise from this. The American fighters would establish business and personal relationships with the host nationals, relationships other than the ‘at the other end of the gun’ relationships. And Iraqis would do the same with Americans. It would save billions of dollars, and I bet out of all the interaction a much better intelligence network would sprout up.