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| 2001-10-10 | The Fundamentalist Fanatics Gird For A Crusade In Afghanistan But all that is forgotten in this rush to teach "our" former
tyrant a lesson he would not forget. Not that it worked. The
lesson is not learnt. Mr Osama was once "our" freedom fighter in
the US-backed mujahideen in the battle to force the Soviet Union
out of Afghanistan. Like President Saddam, he is an outcaste to
be rooted out. The United States believes this is best done with
aerial bombardments, destroying and destabilising the targets as
terrorists do when they attack. So long as the United States is
afraid of casualties, they would continue to be regarded as no
better than the targets. Without staying power, Washington must,
for internal political reasons, finish the war as soon as
possible. For one, the coalition cannot be sustained; for
another, internal unity will fray as it drags on.
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| 2001-09-19 | The Colonialism Of The Mind
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| 2001-09-14 | Chiaroscuro: The Morning After Would it resolve the matter? Even assuming Osama ben Ladin
is caught or killed. No. It would create another area of
uncertainty in an otherwise uncertain area, putting more pressure
on the United States' allies in the region, including India and
the Soviet Union. Would it then root out terrorism in the area?
No. So, what the United States can expect is a temporary
reprieve.
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| 2001-09-12 | Chiaroscuro: Are Muslim Fundamentalists Behind TerroristAttacks in the US It is more than that. The United States is stopped in its
tracks, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, by a Muslim world
unprepared to accept its dominance of the world. It is, though
no one says its so brutally, a continuation of the Crusades that
Pope Urban II put in place in 1089. But the Judea-Christian
worldview of Western civilisation is challenged by the Muslims,
the only serious challenger it now has, and Islamic nations are
routinely demonised. They are guilty per se until proven wrong.
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| 2001-09-06 | Malaysia, KMM And The Mujahideens of Afghanistans When Gulbudeen and his Pathan army joined hands with the
other factions to rout the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan,
Malaysia sent mujahideen to fight there. Both UMNO and PAS
openly claimed credit for it, and they returned to official
welcome. So, this sudden fear of KMM is curious. The KMM
activists arrested all studied in Pakistan, and went to Kabul,
indeed were trained to fight, because they were allowed, indeed,
encouraged to. When the Pathan Taliban routed the Pathan
Gulbudeen in the fight for Pathan supremacy, Malaysia decided to
back the non-Pathan anti-Taleban faction of Ahmad Shah Masood.
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| 2001-08-06 | Chiaroscuro: A Political Football in UMNO
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| 2001-06-26 | Politician goes into labour over pregnant teachers
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| 2001-05-17 | The Vajpayee Visit: A Much Ado About Nothing? Mr Vajpayee's public leacture on "India and Asean:
Shared Perspectives", wanted a higher role for
India in ASEAN, a far cry from the membership it had earlier
wanted. India was excluded even as a dialogue partner from
the start because of her links with the Soviet Union and
became one only after the Soviet Union herself became one.
She has now a role in ASEAN which Pakistan does not, and
diplomats and analysts here do not expect more. "India
exchanged the Soviet umbrella for the American," noted one
Malaysian analyst, "and ASEAN is not keen for India to be
more active in either role."
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| 2001-05-17 | The Vajpayee Visit: A Much Ado About Nothing? Mr Vajpayee's public leacture on "India and Asean:
Shared Perspectives", wanted a higher role for
India in ASEAN, a far cry from the membership it had earlier
wanted. India was excluded even as a dialogue partner from
the start because of her links with the Soviet Union and
became one only after the Soviet Union herself became one.
She has now a role in ASEAN which Pakistan does not, and
diplomats and analysts here do not expect more. "India
exchanged the Soviet umbrella for the American," noted one
Malaysian analyst, "and ASEAN is not keen for India to be
more active in either role."
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| 2001-05-13 | The Anwar Trial That Was Not Puts The Government On Trial
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| 2001-04-27 | Back Pain And Bad Faith Amidst Black Eyes
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| 2001-03-05 | The Bamiyan Buddhas And The Taliban The Taliban was helped to power in part by the Western
World's challenge to the Soviet occupation of that country.
The West, particularly the United States, armed the only
challenge that could oust the Soviet Union -- the Islamic
heirarchy, and helped foment a rebellion, which succeeded.
Every revolution swallows its leaders, and the Islam
revolution in Afghanistan was no exception. And the
Taliban, what started as an army of students, eventually
took power.
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| 2000-10-29 | Federal Indigestion Over State Rights
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| 2000-10-01 | Rafidah Aziz, in the US, faces a spot of bother
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| 2000-08-21 | A Genius Is Now Mentri Besar Of Selangor
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| 1999-09-22 | The PPP's Irrelevance In The National Front And Agenda
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This archive was created as a tribute to the late veteran
journalist MGG Pillai. We believed his writings are useful to develop a critical
thinking analysis.
By the way, the original mggpillai.com web site (2001-2006) was actually created
by one of us.
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