OFA among many other organizations, are to have gun vigil at Palatine station on Friday at seven. Since the Watertown massacre, no legislation has passed at the federal level despite the high level of support for taking the measure to curve gun violence. The Senate is expected take up the gun background check bill in coming months.
- The demands for oil of the emerging nations will never go down but up. More cars in China, India, and Brazil mean not only big markets out there but also greater demands for oil.
- For any war to end, either side must have overwhelming forces behind them; be it financial resources, human power, weapons and political backing.
- Divide and conquer has indeed been dividing all nations that are under the tyranny of 'civilized' nations. At the will of the colonizers, the sectarian factions destroyed the nation's structures and founding of the society.
- What have we learned from Iran-Iraq wars? Human mine sweepers and it is the West that got all the benefits out of factional disputes. Now it is ironically put them out of getting their hands of oil resources. The time is on their side; this world is no longer unilaterally siding with the ones with all the technological advancement.
- Too many Iraqi people have died and are dying still in such a horrible political chaos. WMD or whatever was the purpose of the US involvement in the Iraqi war, one of the US's responsibilities must be in bringing peace to the region. And why did all the US soldiers have to die there? Let's face it: we have spent trillions of dollars to the wars for nothing. It is as if we threw all the money in the sewage.
- We must be at all cost trying to tell both sides to calm down, or otherwise others will try to take advantage of it.
- Granted it is not very easy to estimate how much damage it would cause when the US or NATO forces kill each individual, be them combatants or civilians, it certainly should be in their cold calculation of starting a war for their interests. Forces alone does not stabilize the situation. Instability means deaths; a lot of deaths of militants and civilians.
- The US backed Mujahedin brought Osama bin Ladin. Now that the US killed Osama bin Ladin, and in Pakistan, while the war in Afghanistan still going on killing both high or low level operatives and civilians, we should think of the cost indeed both in terms of human cost and the money spent on the war.