The humidity in Chennai saps all your energy reserves. At least that is so in my case. After all the pending chores are done, you are left with just enough energy to let your limbic responses take over: eat, sleep, or mindlessly watch television. I have yet to get used to the weather in Chennai and it has been a good eight years now.
I was galvanized into the thinking mode when I hit on the carnage in Libya ,via the BBC.
America has really overstepped the boundaries with this one. What justification for the air strikes? What makes one country think it has the right to interfere in another's internal affairs? Let us not forget the West has vested interest in oil in the Middle East region, so has the rest of the world in lesser or greater, did I say greater? I am sorry. How can any country have a need greater than the United States of America? We all need the Middle East to be stable so we can have cheap, or reasonably priced oil. Oil makes the world go round. We are all well aware of where we will be without oil. Therefore the neurosis about Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen et al. I don't buy the talk on Democracy. That is just a front. India is guilty of selfish interests too. We support Libya for the very same reason and more. We here are afraid of the Islamic backlash. So we bend backwards to accommodate anything that will otherwise bring about a bloodbath. The unrest in Bahrain alerts the Emirates who stand in danger of losing their fiefdoms. Does the West have any plan about Libya after Gadaffi? Do they really think they can do a Saddam on him?
What if the Al Qaeda moves in quietly in the ensuing chaos? Al Qaeda, I read somewhere, can never be eradicated, as it it is in the minds of people.It is not just a physical presence. In effect, therefore, America is making it easy for Al Qaeda in Libya.
BBC had a program about warlike nations and this was in the context of America's attack on Iraq. The analysis said that young nations were always flexing their muscles for a fight, and aggression came naturally to them. Maybe. America as a nation is almost ridiculously young and therefore we can forgive its trespasses as normal rites of passage.But what of France and Germany? They who pride themselves on a millenia of history and culture should know better.
Now with Wikileaks washing global laundry in public, we know how interfering "interfering" can be and worse, immoral.
It leaves one with a strong feeling of disgust at human greed. The elections are just around the corner and I personally feel that casting my vote is like whistling in the wind.
"The Answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind..."
"...How many ears must one man have,
Before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind"
Freewheeling Bob Dylan
I was galvanized into the thinking mode when I hit on the carnage in Libya ,via the BBC.
America has really overstepped the boundaries with this one. What justification for the air strikes? What makes one country think it has the right to interfere in another's internal affairs? Let us not forget the West has vested interest in oil in the Middle East region, so has the rest of the world in lesser or greater, did I say greater? I am sorry. How can any country have a need greater than the United States of America? We all need the Middle East to be stable so we can have cheap, or reasonably priced oil. Oil makes the world go round. We are all well aware of where we will be without oil. Therefore the neurosis about Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen et al. I don't buy the talk on Democracy. That is just a front. India is guilty of selfish interests too. We support Libya for the very same reason and more. We here are afraid of the Islamic backlash. So we bend backwards to accommodate anything that will otherwise bring about a bloodbath. The unrest in Bahrain alerts the Emirates who stand in danger of losing their fiefdoms. Does the West have any plan about Libya after Gadaffi? Do they really think they can do a Saddam on him?
What if the Al Qaeda moves in quietly in the ensuing chaos? Al Qaeda, I read somewhere, can never be eradicated, as it it is in the minds of people.It is not just a physical presence. In effect, therefore, America is making it easy for Al Qaeda in Libya.
BBC had a program about warlike nations and this was in the context of America's attack on Iraq. The analysis said that young nations were always flexing their muscles for a fight, and aggression came naturally to them. Maybe. America as a nation is almost ridiculously young and therefore we can forgive its trespasses as normal rites of passage.But what of France and Germany? They who pride themselves on a millenia of history and culture should know better.
Now with Wikileaks washing global laundry in public, we know how interfering "interfering" can be and worse, immoral.
It leaves one with a strong feeling of disgust at human greed. The elections are just around the corner and I personally feel that casting my vote is like whistling in the wind.
"The Answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind..."
"...How many ears must one man have,
Before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind"
Freewheeling Bob Dylan
Not bad at all. There are no right or wrong answers of course. Still, what counts is to get it out the way you understand it.
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