My Dear Joe, I think you are missing the point. You need to comprehend the fundamental distinction between the two principal duties of Military and Law enforcement. I think you have a bird's eye view of what a military duty entails. A military's chief duties are two fold:- (1)War-time duty and (2)Peace time duty. A War-time duty ofcourse is to defend its national sovereignty and all those things we rightly value as a nation. This main function is what many people tend to view the military with; and as a result, people like you tend to advance a very narrow image of the military. The second contentious duty is the peace-time duty. Peace-time responsibility comprises of nation building, reconstruction and building bridges, providing health care, rescue operations disaster relief, education and training, this is just to mention a few. But in addition to all these, the most paramount duty is to preserve law and order and, of course, to act as a deterrent to any force that impedes peace and tranquility and economic development. What I am alluding to in the latter is that being a military leader or civilian leader, which ever administration tends to unfoster and impede peace and tranquility and economic advancement must be stopped by the PATRIOTIC MILITARY FORCES IMMEDIATELY, and replaced by calling for ELECTIONS within THREE MONTHS, as was the case in PASKISTAN, though the the Paskistani Leader chose to stay; that is absolutely wrong, and the General of Pakistan should step down and call for free and fair elections. And this is the case now in our BEAUTIFUL and INNOCENT COUNTRY, THE GAMBIA. To conclude, my argument rests on that Peace-time duty of the military to step in, in a timely manner before it is too late. Look at countries like RWANDA and SIERRA LEONE and LIBERIA. Please, do not get me wrong, the Military 's duty is not to run a country, but to rescue a country from brink of collapse. And our country now is on the brink of collapse. So EBOU COLLY is absolutely right:YAYA MUST GO, and lets have peace and tranquility restored back home. Landing Jatta --- joe sambou <[log in to unmask]> wrote: <HR> <html><head><meta Name='keywords' Content='commtouch, pronto, mail, free email, free, branded, web based, free web based email, communications, internet, software, advertising banners, e-mail, free software'></head><body ><div align='left'><font ><blockquote><blockquote><TT>Kebba, thanks for your contributions to this discussion. I am <BR> equally frustrated with this regime and I understand your <BR> frustration. However, Ebou Colley and Jatta are not saying anything <BR> new. All the military thugs that ran our continent to the sea said <BR> the same thing. Remember, Jammeh also said the same thing. Instead <BR> of <BR> the gun, why don't they mobilize their colleagues and exercise their <BR> constitutional right to ensure a free and fair elections and also <BR> vote him out of office. This way, the cycle of blood letting is <BR> broken and innocent lives will not be lost. I am not worried about <BR> future retirement of Yahya and his rodents. No place is far and no <BR> shelter is secure, for we will prosecute them to the fullest. They <BR> know that. We should not let our emotions guide us, but our <BR> intellect. Our brothers and sisters in Senegal did it, we can do it <BR> too, with clear thinking and persistence. <BR> <BR> Lets forge ahead.<BR> <BR> Chi Jaama<BR> <BR> Joe Sambou<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </TT><br><br><font><p align=left><br>Get your Free E-mail at http://www.gambianet.com<br>____________________________________________________________<br>Get your 100MB FREE Internet storage! Sign up now -<br>http://www.netdrive.com/?ao=zzn</blockquote></blockquote></div></font></body></html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------