Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
The 1947 population of Palestine was about 70% Arab and 30% Jewish refugees and settlers. The UN voted to partition the ex-Ottoman province between the two groups 50/50. Neither side was too happy with the split and fighting escalated to a full-blown war ending with the defeat of the Palestinean ie the Nakba or defeat. […]
The airbases fo Issan are relatively quiet now. A few flights a day from bangkok, but during the Viet-Nam War these runways were scorched by US fighters and bombers flying missions over Hanoi and more secretively Laos. This supposed secret war was run out of a small complex on the Udon Thani air strip basically […]
Once more in the News.
The Thai and USA governments have been partners ever since the War in Laos, where over 15,000 Thai soldiers served as para-military support units for anti-communist Hmong fighters. despite that losing effort the USA respects the Thai’s effort in the cause of freedom to go so far as to having honored […]
Few people traveling along Route 331 from Satthahip to the Isaan Plateau realize this highway was built by the US Military in the 1960s. The Friendship Highway connected the Thai Navy base with several large airfields operated by the US Air Force throughout the Viet-Nam War. Those airfields are now quiet, however Satthahip remains one […]
Didn’t Harry Belafonte sing, “C’mon Taliban, gimme me banana.”
10 SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE A MEMBER OF THE TALIBAN
#10 you refine heroin but object to beer.
#9 You own a $300 AK-47, but can’t afford shoes.
#8 You have more wives than teeth.
#7 Your vests come in two styles; bullet-proof and suicide
#6 You can’t think of […]
The USA spends about $500 billion annually on its military. More than all the other countries in the world combined. America is also the largest exporter of combat weaponry and doesn’t countenance rivals, especially if they are independent arms dealers selling death and destruction to the highest bidder at prices undercutting the USA, which is […]
The Pentagon during the Clinton Regime adopted a ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ policy on gays in the military. Homosexuals have avoided the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force at a time when the USA needs every gay and lesbians willing to serve against the Islamic fascist cabal. Thailand is much more open-minded about sex in […]
President Bush courageously maintained his mismanagement streak by condoning the Iraqi central government attempt to oust the Shi’ite militia from their traditional strongholds and then compounded this error by A-OKing US military involvement in this ‘defining moment’ of the long conflict in Mesopotamia.
GW said at a conference with Kevin Rudd the Aussie PM, “This is […]
Five years have passed since GW Bush ordered the US military to invade Iraq with its Coalition of the Willing. The war was won in a matter of weeks. It’s been the peace that has been so elusive and yesterday 4 US soldiers were killed in an unexpected flare of violence, pushing the fatal body […]
The killings of Thai soldiers, Muslim separatists, and a Buddhist monk pushed the death toll in Southern Thailand over 3000 since January, 2004. The present government is holding emergency meetings to figure out a strategy to combat the violence, however Interior Minister Chalerm has admitted he hasn’t a clue as to solve the insurgency, which […]
