Winner and Losers ~ November 14, 2010

Posted 14 Nov 2010 by Walaa Idris

General Sir David Richards, in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph and on the Andrew Marr show this morning said: Al –Qaeda cannot be beaten!

As he put it: “In conventional war, defeat and victory is very clear cut and is symbolised by troops marching into another nation’s capital. First of all you have to ask: do we need to defeat Islamist militancy in the sense of a clear cut victory? I would argue that it’s unnecessary and would never be achieved”. He also said the real weapon in the war against al- Qaeda is prevention as well as education and democracy.

General Richards is a winner for confirming what many Middle East observers have been saying all along and for many years!

Today the National Union of Students (NUS) launched their ‘decapitation’ strategy aimed at deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg and other Lib Dem MPs as a protest for their support of the tuition fees (which if the NUS took a closer look at will find they still honoured 50% of their original pledge). Their campaign which resembles yet another attempt from the left to dislodge the coalition government! Why else will a union that received a fairer system than the what currently exists, a system which allows 25% of graduates to pay less and only future high earners pay more be WRONG, BAD, or UNJUST!?

They are losers for allowing themselves to become a puppet and a tool of disorder – which will eventually only backfire and lose them all public sympathy and support!

2 comment(s)

@mancman10

@mancman10
14 Nov, 20:14

Wal please don’t forget that disorder/riots can sometimes work. Take your mind back to April 1990, the poll tax riots all over the place, the main one in London of course, It helped change a whole govt policy and Maggie had a 130 seat majority. The coalition is built on quicksand and it will not take the civil disobedience to come.
A million maybe more people are going to lose their jobs and when people are desperate they do desperate things, I work in the private sector and there are simply not the jobs out there for these people to take, i mean decent jobs with a living wage.
When the cuts hit, this fake, patronising coalition will be blown apart. Turbelent 2011 ahead and labour at 40% with only just electing a new leader, Roll on a year from now, Election by may 2012, even next year as if the tories wait they’ve no chance once people’s lives are shattered by the cuts which are too deep too quick, They are poltical not economical, regressive not progressive and you know it, as for the Lib Dems goodnight vienna :)

NickOLarse

NickOLarse
17 Nov, 09:37

On the comments by General Sir David Richards: I would go a lot further – military intervention, together with the revelations about ‘rendition’ and the use of torture in Guantanamo actually strengthens the ability of Al-Qaeda to find new recruits.

On the NUS and the Lib Dems: “…they still honoured 50% of their original pledge” – it’s a bit much when politicians are defended on the basis that they only half lied.

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