It's more like a rational strategy. While the Armenian lobbyists keep pushing for this bill in the U.S, they'd better invest more time and money in their home countries.

A similar approach Obama could try against the Jewish lobby. Making them understand what is in the best interest for their own people versus what they believe it is. Perhaps questioning openly some of the funding and military cooperation.

Or perhaps the UN/US should consider calling their imposed Iraq embargo and following invasion genocide, based on civilian body count of 100,000's! Then they can perhaps judge about other nations genocides without looking too much of a hypocrite.

But "that's not how the world works anymore".

We drive it now by employing irrational forces, so one can benefit from the power siphoned of the business of increasing chaos and destruction.

We're all Iranians now - puking on the never-ending story of forgeries and assertions leaked only for their propaganda effects.

Then again, he sounds slightly less insane than politicians like McCain. Mullen does engage in hyperbole to "think that the world is united and is willing". Sounds more like a Pepsi commercial!

If my children would be more cooperative every time I'd threaten to trash up their room, I certainly would consider it! But one will create children filled of hatred and distrust, near impossible to have a dialog with in the future.

That's a myth Schmuck. And by spreading it you annihilate a whole people, a whole ethnicity. A virtual holocaust performed by people-deniers. Because actual killing starts only after one devalues the being and the context he or she lives in.

Correct, to overhear words in a noisy gate from that distance the people at the counter must have been shouting. But in this bizarro world the word of one attorney is more likely true than the research of the Dutch airport security, footage and dozens of interviews combined. And it's easier as a private person to offload a testimony than it is for an official agency to put things out there in the wild. It's called the accountability factor.

And the calls for releasing footage and interview material in our well-connected hyper-society: insane! All these armchair internet Sherlocks would be able to burn how many witches per hour?

Raimondo wrote: "We don’t yet have all the facts, but it is weird indeed that these particular facts are being steadfastly ignored. "

Why is that weird, Justin? It's way more weird to demand the details of an ongoing investigation. The FBI has the passenger list and tons of footage, also they interviewed extensively everyone. Any exposure or announcements at this stage will certainly screw things up!

Weak analysis this time.

1. If a friend or family member reports you as being suspicious, they shouldn't put you on a terrorist watch list right away. This has to be checked out.

2. Suicide bomber motives have already been proven not effected much by bright/dark futures or economical factors. Read Pape on that.

3. Haskell's statements are interesting but still have to be confirmed. Witnesses rarely have it entirely accurate. The "Indian" man could have been someone from a hired service to escort and sort things out. The terrorist's family might use these services.

4. No resistance and in shock. Is there a book somewhere how terrorist are supposed to behave in their last moments? Foaming at the mouth like in the movies or perhaps just sweating and praying as they expect death?

5. Second Nigerian appeared to have had food poisoning. Checking the septic tank would clear that up...also in case he flushed something else.

All in all there's NOT a REAL CASE yet to be made. The only curious thing about this is why the US is so busy in Yemen and the majority sits still and is letting it all happen after blowback 9/11.

The problem appears to be that the U.S has already lost its (psychological) borders altogether, with its large stakes into the globalized international market-place. Talking about foreign policy changes has to be coupled to the issue of globalization. If the U.S. ever wants to step out of this development, it should prepare to become a second-world country. And why would a US government pull the plug from or dump their share in the most successful global corporations? It seems our bankrupt form of capitalism just like dead and buried communism demands globalization and the wiping out of any competing ideology. Ideologies always behave like that and should therefore not inform foreign policies any longer: the separation of ideology and foreign policy as supplement to the divide between church and state.