1-Mar-16 World View -- Pakistan unexpectedly executes murderer of liberal politician Salman Taseer

[John]

1-Mar-16 World View -- Pakistan unexpectedly executes murderer of liberal politician Salman Taseer


Greece turns into a huge refugee camp

** 1-Mar-16 World View -- Pakistan unexpectedly executes murderer of liberal politician Salman Taseer
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e160301



Contents:
Pakistan unexpectedly executes murderer of liberal politician Salman Taseer
Generational changes of behavior
Salman Taseer's son describes what's happened to Pakistan
Greece turns into a huge refugee camp


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Salman Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri,
Asia Bibia, Aatish Taseer, Greece, Macedonia

[London calling]

Maybe the Greeks will become so fed up they will elect Golden Dawn into office. Or maybe they will stay "progressive" and die.

[MW1]

John,

You apparently believe Trump or Sanders would be poor choices for president. In your opinion, are there any candidates that could effectively govern the US, and prevent a new world war? Or is a clash of civilizations inevitable in the near term regardless of who's elected? If so, how do you see this conflict playing out under the more likely scenarios (Clinton, Trump, Sanders or Rubio as president)?

[John]

> You apparently believe Trump or Sanders would be poor choices for
> president. In your opinion, are there any candidates that could
> effectively govern the US, and prevent a new world war? Or is a
> clash of civilizations inevitable in the near term regardless of
> who's elected? If so, how do you see this conflict playing out
> under the more likely scenarios (Clinton, Trump, Sanders or Rubio
> as president)?

Let's start by taking note of the fact that no one gives a shit what I
think about this stuff.

I was fooled by Obama, as I've written a number of times. When Obama
was campaigning in 2008 and said incredibly stupid things ("the earth
will heal and the tides will recede"), I assumed if he won the
election he'd become more sensible. But what I didn't fully
understand is that his hatred of Boomers translates into a policy of
"ask what Bush would do and do the opposite," which has led to one
major foreign policy disaster after another. To this day, Obama has
no idea what's going on in the world, except that Bush is at fault.

So my criterion for whether I like a candidate is whether he knows
what's going on in the world. In the past I've suggested two
possibilities -- Clinton, because she was in the White House with her
husband for eight years, and Bush, because his brother and father were
in the White House for twelve years. In either case, I would expect
their eyes to be open to what's going on in the world.

I once watched Trump on tv with the sound muted. He was on some rant
about Rubio or Bush or the other candidates. The sheer hatred on his
face was sickening. I watched for perhaps 5-10 minutes, and it was
constant -- the face of sheer hatred. And it's always the same
whenever he's speaking. Someone says something he doesn't like and he
spews out a bilious explosion of hatred in response, and it goes on
and on. This is a man who is filled with massive hatred of Mexicans,
Muslims, Chinese, women with periods, and anyone else who disagrees
with him. His supporters say that these are just negotiating
positions, and that he'll change when he's president, but after being
fooled by Obama, I don't believe that. And somebody who is so driven
by hatred is going to make one stupid decision after another, just as
Obama has done.

The world war is coming, irrespective of who is president. But I
would like for America to be the "good guy." If the war is triggered
because of a really bad hate-driven decision by the president, then
America will not look good. Either way, there's no way to predict
who'll win.

As for Sanders, he's a total loon. He thinks that he's leading some
new socialist revolution, which is hallucinatory. He's a one-note
candidate, promising free stuff to anyone credulous enough to believe
him.

[Anonymous1]

For the Greek influx, why doesn't a 'journalist' ever go over to where the boats are leaving to help understand why people are leaving? I suspect its because they would find the Turkey government organizing who gets onto the boats and handing out the life jackets.

[John]

> For the Greek influx, why doesn't a 'journalist' ever go over to
> where the boats are leaving to help understand why people are
> leaving? I suspect its because they would find the Turkey
> government organizing who gets onto the boats and handing out the
> life jackets.

There have been plenty of journalists on Turkey's coast with the
Aegean Sea, and there have been no such actions by Turkey's
government. The migrants do not have to be convinced by Turkey to
travel to Europe.

[MW1]

Thanks for the response, and thanks for the work you put in on blog posts, always interesting and informative.

Agree on wanting America to be the "good guy" in the next conflict. Not sure how that could happen under Clinton (see Libya, Syria, Egypt), and who knows how Trump/Rubio/Cruz would handle things. Sanders is a mess, but he's pretty much out of it now. I'm honestly not sure who in the running would make a good president, if anyone. Should be an interesting few years coming up...