The CBC is reporting today that North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesmen are calling for a formal Peace Treaty with the United States to replace the Armistice agreement that ended the Korean War. I’m not sure of the details of how the Korean War ended… I was under the impression that it was actually one of …
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UK Attorney General charges UK Soldiers with War Crimes
Today is a good day for the Rule of Law. Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General of the United Kingdom announced today that 3 UK soldiers would be charged under the International Criminal Court Act of 2001 for War Crimes. Their charges? Manslaughter, inhuman treatment of persons and perverting the course of justice as well as …
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Albrighton on “The Plot”
Christopher Albrighton… reporter in Iraq and writer of the excellent Back-To-Iraq blog has written a great piece revealing how “The Plot” is a part of every Iraqis’ daily discourse. Rather than resort to Occam’s Razor—that the Americans have lost control of the political situation in Iraq, that political ideologues underestimated the difficulties of “democratizing†this …