Stupidity is already bad enough and we should be kinder to people that are born stupid throw no fault of theirs. It is just life, the draw of a card that was bad. Though stupidity is not a good thing, it is not that bad on its own. There are many things that are worse than being stupid. A stupid person would not cause harm to others or if done harm, may not be intended or through lack of understanding.
What is worse than being stupid is to think one is a genius instead. How to imagine that, a stupid person thinking he is a genius?
It could be worse than this. A stupid person thinking he is a genius and given the power to do his stupid things. Think of the harm this stupid person can do with the power that came along to execute his stupidity?
There is another level that is even worse. A stupid person thinking he is a genius and given the power to prove how stupid he is....and with no one or laws to curb his stupidity and stupid acts. Now in such a situation the damage done is colossal.
Think of such a person running a company, a corporation or a country? Think George Bush Jr and Donald Trump. Think how many thousands of people they have killed, how many millions turned homeless and refugees, how many countries they have destroyed?
This is the extreme form of stupidity, to allow a stupid person to think he is a genius, elevated him to a position of power and acted without constraints of laws and power.
What a recipe for disaster.
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If we have such stupid people holding power in Sin, then it is kaput in no time.
Hi RB, are you saying that Singapore is being run by some stupid people? In that case who put them there? The people who put them in the positions to do stupid things must be equally stupid. 60% of Singaporeans must be totally daft.
Afghanistan Debacle: Few Winners and Many Losers in Asia from the Afghan Crisis
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The collapse of the Afghan government hurts the region as a whole. American credibility and its security guarantees are under a cloud, potentially emboldening its rivals to undertake provocations. India is also a big loser. China, however, could emerge in a much better position – as both its major rivals, the US and India are on the back foot.
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The American strategic position in Asia has suffered a destructive blow:
The swift collapse of its Afghan ally exposes deep failings in US intelligence capacity, the quality of judgment of its political leadership, and its ability to sustain a coherent security policy abroad. To be fair, the US administration can say much in its defence, given the support for the Afghan Taliban from groups in Pakistan and the disunity and venality of its Afghan allies. But this will not matter because the perception in much of Asia is of a big power that lacks stamina and one that is prepared to cut and run when the going gets rough – even if it means leaving at risk the lives of its friends, from lowly interpreters to leading political figures.
The argument that China’s leaders spin to other Asian countries, that the US is undependable and a power in terminal decline will gain credence. Power does not just come from high-tech wizardry in defence equipment or how many billions a defence establishment can spend, it also derives from the trust a country can win from its allies and the potency of its deterrent capacity against rivals. That trust in the US and that deterrent capacity are now diminished.
The US setback will embolden its foes and weaken its allies’ confidence
The world, and Asia in particular, is riskier now because America’s foes – China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and so on – will seek to exploit this setback.
China will cut a deal with the Afghan Taliban – Taliban assurances that its territory will not be used as a sanctuary for Uighur insurgents in exchange for Chinese recognition of Taliban legitimacy. Therefore, it will retain a position in Afghanistan while its strategic competitors in the area - the US and India - will lose their positions.
Other American rivals may spy an opportunity to pull off a gambit in areas of their strategic interest while the US is on the backfoot. This could be Russia in Ukraine or elsewhere in Europe or North Korea carrying out some provocation to divert the attention of its suffering populace from the regime’s incompetence.
India is also a major loser as it was an important backer of the defeated regime in Kabul. Its foe, Pakistan, now has regained the “strategic depth” in Afghanistan that its security establishment coveted as a means of holding off India. With the Taliban probably unable for a while to impose its will on all of Afghan territory, terrorist groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Muhammad which are known to be operating on Afghan territory will have more leeway to use those areas as a base for operations against India. India’s strategic initiatives such as building a port in Chabahar, Iran to rival the Chinese-backed port in Gwadar, Pakistan, depended on a friendly regime in Kabul that no longer exists. India’s strategic position, already undermined by a growing insurgency in Kashmir, an expanding Chinese presence in Sri Lanka and the likelihood of a failed Myanmar state on its eastern flank, will now be even more undercut.
Lesser Asian nations that depend on a US security guarantee to some extent will also have to think hard about the durability of that guarantee. This will include formal treaty allies with continued strong ties to the US such as Japan or South Korea or formal allies such as Thailand and the Philippines which have grown closer to China in recent years. Taiwan has also banked on American support and will need to consider what to do if that commitment weakens. Ditto for others with less formal but still deep security ties to the US such as Singapore. At best, these countries will need to develop strategies to hedge against the US not following through on its commitments.
Virgo I thought only one case only?
I think worse than stupidity is Intelligent schoolboy becomes a traitor to his own people when he is put in a position of power.
WHO Must Investigate US Fort Derrick For Origin Of COVID-19
An online petition demanding the WHO to investigate the US' Fort Detrick lab for the origins of the novel coronavirus garnered over 25 million signatures and inspired people in the Australia, Malaysia, Philippines and South Korea to call on the US to open its door for a thorough probe, The US should respond to doubts raised by the international community as soon as possible.
The petition was considered the loudest call on the probe into Fort Detrick, when the US ramped up its information war against China on COVID-19 origins tracing to serve its intelligence-led 90-day investigation on the matter.
The public call has been echoed by more countries and experts as well as groups around the world.
A South Korean civic group has sued the Fort Detrick biological laboratory and the US Forces Korea (USFK) over the smuggled toxic substances to US military bases in South Korea in violation of domestic law.
Kim Hyun-joong, Chairman of the Korea Fire Safety Education Culture Association, filed a complaint with a court in the country's southeast city of Busan against the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the USFK Commander Paul LaCamera.
It claimed that the USFK and the Fort Detrick biolab violated South Korean law and imported toxic substances into the country three times between 2017 and 2019.
Filipino political commentator Herman Laurel also launched an online petition earlier this month to break the silence around the dubious lab, with more ASEAN members joining.
"We already have signatures from Malaysia and Australia. We are planning a media forum to announce our visit to the local office of the WHO to follow up our petition," he said, noting that he hopes to deliver a letter of request by Friday next week.
Thousands of Filipinos have agreed that Fort Detrick mysteries must be brought to light.
The Filipino newspaper Pwersa mentioned that one of the most intriguing reports concerns the early presence of a "strange flu" in other countries and the mysterious issues such as the "vaping deaths" emanating from the US around the middle of 2019. And those reports emerged from the US revolving around Fort Detrick, which had been ordered by the US CDC to shut down for "national security reasons" in August 2019, putting the lab at the center of questions and doubts.
In a new book unveiled by a former press officer of the Philippine Embassy in the US, titled The Racism Virus Is Incurable, it listed a timeline of the COVID-19 outbreak in the US, which could be traced back to June 2019.
The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 was first discovered in Texas before the virus was transmitted through the US military to Europe. So the US politicizing the COVID-19 outbreak is like the Spanish virus repeating itself.
With more and more new clues pointing to the US on COVID-19 origins, a number of media and experts in the US, Russia, South Korea and Japan call for an investigation into Fort Detrick.
The WHO must not let the US government to walk away from its responsibility.
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