Things done by halves are never done right.
So true of most things political.
The latest in this string of a half-baked decisions in everything and anything under the sun, is none other than the controversial prevention of Terrorist Ordinance (POTO), which has hit a pot hole! How else should one react to the latest amendments to the ordinance.
It would be so easy to cynically shrug them off as what else can one expect from our netagan who are perpetually hang up on themselves! So long as their deeds and words feel good sound good, the devil can take the hindmost.
After all, isnt this what vote-bank politics is all about.
Where everything is viewed on the voter scale! Report from London By Gwynne Dyer A Slight Case of Hubris "Get them by the balls, and their hearts and minds will follow," went the Vietnam-era adage of the professional US military.
But the United States, despite the enormous firepower that gave it so many military victories, ultimately lost the Vietnam war.
With the Taliban regime destroyed and the al-Qaeda organisation deprived of its bases in Afghanistan, the hawks in the Bush administration are in full charge.
Last weekend, American military officers were in Somalia meeting with warlords from the Rahanwein Resistance Army to discuss a joint attack on that countrys fledgling government, and Undersecretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Ryan Crocker was in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq laying the groundwork for an assault on Saddam Husseins regime.
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