Monday, September 22, 2014

Talking Big

During the stopover in Hong Kong, Lee Hsien Loong said that while he is glad the Americans have taken a stand against the Islamic State militant group, Singapore has yet to decide whether or how it will support the United States-led coalition campaign. His first direct comment on the global effort to combat the Islamic State (ISIS) militants in the Middle East reminds one of the ant who climbed up the backside of an elephant, with the intention of rape.

Note it was the Malaysian police once again, not Teo Chee Hean's highly decorated Home Team, who provided the details about the Penang-born PR and his Singaporean wife who brought their two teenage children to fight alongside the militants in Syria. The family was only briefly mentioned in Parliament by Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo as being "among a handful of Singapore citizens" who had gone to participate in the conflict. Maybe it's too inconvenient to reveal more about what they don't know, just like they are being awfully quiet about how the scumbag Yang Yin was granted his residential papers in double quick time.

It's one thing to patrol the waters off Somalia for anti-piracy duties, it's another to send our boys smack into real harm's way. The hand held surface-to-air-missile (SAM) launchers that brought a Black Hawk down in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu can easily swipe our pretty F-16s or F-15s off the skies like any pesky mosquito. The fate of a downed pilot is not a pretty prospect, not something they usually prim for at another national day parade flyby. Of course they can fly higher, but who's to say the militants don't have the Buk SAMs of the pro-Russian separatists at Donetsk?

A more important question: who decides when a nation goes to war? Even Obama had to seek the approval of Congress, one step closer to authorizing the third significant U.S. military operation in Iraq. And to think Obama is only paid peanuts to maintain world peace.

15 comments:

  1. America is only protecting their interests in the middle east, world peace is only incidental.

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    1. One-up.

      And tattler, you have been reading too much american propaganda on MH17. Maybe its a different tattler behind every piece, but anyone with half a brain wouldn't conclude the russian rebels shot down MH17 with a BUK. More like the thuggish ukrainian air force with a track record of shooting down civilian airplanes using american CIA "intelligence", same CIA who planted the Tonkin Bay false flag to start the vietnam war. two MAS planes down, all under mysterious circumstances. You computed the probablity or maybe need to go back to school to refresh that module?

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    2. You have the other half of the brain. Your conclusion is no better than Tattler's,

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    3. Wow! This is new, the CIA brought down MH370?

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  2. Who is the very important person who bullied a student - during a Q and A session? Gotta love these conceited people, they must have looked into the mirror every morning and say how good they look.

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  3. Singapore is pee sai
    and the Gov is only brave to bully own citizen.. everyone else they have no balls... particularly towards neighbours.

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  4. Pinky talked big. Gave PR to grassroot scumbag Yang Yin, how limping mat selamat can escape to M'sia, abductors can easily come into S'pore by water, fake talents in NUS and S'pore. We are asking Pinky and big nose Teo, where is the borders control? How secure is S'pore under your charge?

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  5. GE 2016.
    Better vote wisely or our Singapore sons may end up in harm's way.

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    1. For the all those senior folks cleaning toilets, picking up dirty dishes, selling tissues or collecting card boards, when they should be enjoying their twilight years, this place is already in deep shit. You may be next.

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  6. What is the use to call for world peace when at the same time most countries are also manufacturing weapons to sell to other countries, Singapore included.

    Do Singapore really desperately need the profits from the sale of weapons to kill people ? This I am sure our PAP Govt will not provide any answers.

    So stop call for peace if you are sincere about not killing people ?

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  7. The "we punch above our weight syndrome"? The truth of the matter is that from LKY onwards none of them have the stomach for blood despite the bravado about knuckeldusters.Have you seen the great man being pushed into the drain without a whimper?

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    1. The greed, oops 'great' man is nothing but a tyrant.

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    2. Yup.

      he cant take physical discomforts... up the temp to above 27C and he'll grumble. Cant even take the sight of ah neh pulling 22KV electric cables.. PUB & TAS ( last time ) had to dig & lay cables between Oxley and Istana, only when he leaves town.

      Otherwise no can do... heads will roll.
      The elite behaviour was condone already.

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    3. Fortunately it wasn't a flooded monsoon drain as otherwise we would not have the opportunities to celebrate his 'founding' of Sinkiepore, and for poor ole Sir Stamford to roll in his grave.

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  8. The peesai will be discarded just like peesai for it is an irritant that serves no purpose whatsoever.

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