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Monday, 30 January 2006

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According to the New Duranty Times this morning, of the Hamas victory in the Palestinian territories, Ms. Rice says the following:

"I've asked why nobody saw it coming," Ms. Rice said, speaking of her own staff. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."

Golly, maybe she better send "Mommy Karen" all around the region again so she can "listen" some more.

Or perhaps the President should find another Secretary of State, one who may perhaps understand the true nature of our peril...

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29 Jan 2013

Gafur
For someone who uses the exeetdnd family as a metaphor, you often don't seem to understand the dynamic.The default model of human organization is a large exeetdnd family. An individual born into such a group receives protection from the dangers of life from the group in exchange for unquestioning and total loyalty. Ethics, are in effect to reduced to "does it help my group?" in which case it's okay. And being disloyal (harming the groups interests whether intentional or not) is the worst form of betrayal.It's not that big men have to be coaxed into supporting people, their self-image as a good person requires them to help their group as much as possible.Obama's big problem with Kenya will be that all Kenyan sides will assume that he wants to do everything possible to help his group (in the case the Luo). The Kikuyu might not like such a situation but they'd understand, even respect it to a certain extent while envying the Luo their good fortune.If he does not openly favor the Luo, then _all_ sides (and a big chunk of Subsaharan Africa (and a lot of the middle east) will regard him as a person with no honor or integrity.Similarly, I don't believe that he's a 'secret' Muslim for a second. But his ties to Muslims won't help the US with the middle east. They'll most likely see his Christianity as opportunistic and unethical (and again an example of turning his back on his group and bringing dishonor to them).None of this is necessarily a reason to vote against him but some more reasonable expectations about what he can and cannot do (and why) would be nice.

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