The Argument Comes Full Circle

In the days before "You are with us or against us" there used to be an argument for the oppressed peoples that went something like: Well what could you expect from people who live through such horrors all their lives with no end in sight. They had to fight somehow. If you really want a good solution you have to come up with a "fair" and "just" and comprehensive solution. Yes all this violence is wrong but address the cause of why people are behaving the way they are and this will go away.
In fact the US used to support at least partially this sort of argument: At least in Chechnya and Afghanistan and even in Kashmir to the extent of remaining by today's standards fairly neutral.
Now the reason or excuse for this murderous (terrorist?) rampage (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/marines.haditha/index.html) is given as pressure. If people who are the occupiers and not the occupied and who know that at most they are in it for a few years can behave this way under "pressure" then what can be expected of the perennially oppressed?

Now Where Else Can George Reuse This Quote?

"Haven't quite got the skills yet."
George Bush's honest assessment of his first time trying to play cricket in Pakistan

If They Could Somersault Like this In the Field

Mushtaq gets reappointed by the guy - PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf to be precise - who fired him three months ago; Waqar resigns just before the series is about to start; Shoaib has been left out apparently on fitness grounds; The sword of the arbitration hangs over Asif and Shoaib; Their opponents have willed themselves into winning against India and are fully ready and prepared. Pakistan is just going through their usual preparations for a series.