Gary Kamiya's excellent piece should be read along with his earlier "Why Obama should end the 'war on terror'" (linked in the current article "Tourists from Hell").

Gary Kamiya:

I do not pretend to know how to combat the horrible virus of terrorism, although I know that my country's response has not worked.

(I can actually demonstrate that you really DO know how to combat that virus!! Your realisation that the GW Bush response to 9/11 did not work - and could not work - is one major step required).

GW Bush's responses (to 9/11 - first, that foolish war on Afghanistan; and subsequently his even more foolish war against Saddam Hussein [with whom, by the way, GW Bush shared more than a few minor characteristics]; his whole Presidency after 9/11, including his response to Katrina and, throughout his tenure, the huge hole that he has been digging for the US and the world economic systems) all these were born out of:

-- his phony assertions that Jesus Christ was speaking to him daily and giving him direct instructions on what to do and how to do it;

-- the greatest rage that has been seen in a public figure since Hitler (well, maybe Saddam too had those rages);

-- the extraordinary arrogance that utterly incompetent people are subject to...

(and probably a few other such idiot desiderata - check out, for instance, that "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!" idiocy; that assumption of the role of Masseur-in-Chief to Angela Merkel...)

I do not promise that we can kill once and for all this "horrible virus of terrorism" (that may not be feasible for quite some time to come), but it is surely not impossible to ensure that in democracries we can certainly do a whole lot better against this virus than we have done thus far. I'd like very much to present to you, via a PowerPoint presentation + a couple of documents illustrating and explaining what I call 'prose + structural graphics' (p+sg). (I've just explained something about p+sg in a Salon posting published just a while before this one - so I won't do that again right now (there are also several other postings of mine explaining). Do check out my claims to discover how we can definitely minimise the virulence of terrorism; corruption (of different kinds in 1st and 3rd world countries); incompetent educational systems and their effects on the human mind; and so on...

-- GSC

Emitting his usual flatulent, virulent idiocy...

Check out zoltan newberry's amazing posting right here at this thread, titled as follows:

"I see Gopi Saraswati Chandi Bandi, always the all-knowing and wise Indian Intellektual, is certain that Afghanistan and Iraq and the whole wide world would be so much better, had we only listened to his utter wisdom for the ages."

...

It purports to respond to my post titled:

"How to combat the virus of terrorism (and other such diseases of modern society)..."

-- GSC

(By the way, zoltan newberry, the name is George Sagman Chandy. To my utmost shame and distress, I happen to share a first name with your criminal President GW Bush (about to be ex-President, most thankfully for the world). [When GW Bush, War Criminal, became President of the USA, I shortened my nom de plume to just initials].

(By the way, also, I happen to belong to the Syrian Christian community of South India [though I'm not a practicing formal Christian, by any means]. You should perhaps become aware [if it is possible for such a thing as awareness to seep into what passes for the brain located in your skull or perhaps it is actually situated in your rear-end*] that we Syrian Christians were Christians in India by around 50 AD (when the Newberry forebears were still clad in goatskins and blue paint were doubtless emitting the same flatulent virulent utter idiocies as we regularly see from you right here at Salon).

*It certainly smells like that.

What a great idea!

-- GSC

... has always been a VERY successful business in the USA. Incompetent GW Bush got eight years as President by doing just that!

GSC

The letter titled "Bush", from 'Revere', deserves a star for sure, perhaps even two stars!!

GSC

"Why doesn't Salon send flaming bags of dogshit to the White House?"

(That's (almost) an excellent idea! Yes, I do know you were being 'ironical').

Actually, Salon - and 50 million other US citizens; along with at least 100 to 200 million world citizens - should all send bags of dog shit and human excreta (flames not needed) NOT to the White House (whose next occupant seems to be a decent and very intelligent human being), but directly to GW Bush, War Criminal, at his Crawford, Texas, ranch where he says he will be be retiring to.

(Also, do read "Revere's" letter under the title of "Bush" at this very thread: it may be worthwhile sending those bags of shit as contributions to the proposed George W. Bush Presidential Library - they will match in quality anything that GW Bush has said or written during his eight years of digging the US and the world into a hole from which we may never be able to dig ourselves out. More and more this seems a very good idea to me: the George W. Bush Presidential Library, with contents: around 100-200 million pounds of dog shit and human shit! [to represent the world's opinion of his contribution to history]).

That may to some extent reflect the anger we should all feel at the damage GW Bush and his War Criminal Gang have done to the world during his tenure.

-- GSC