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 …
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Glorifying Bin Laden by comparison with Hitler
Yesterday, in my Inter-Travels I came across this post at Harry’s Place (hatip: SMASH). It points a peice in the Observer which equates Islamic extremism with the G8s elitism as fanaticism in diferent forms. Here’s a quote: The so-called war against terrorism is, in fact, a war between two fanaticisms. To bracket the two together …
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Terrorism in the Western World
After the attacks in London, the “War on Terror” and Terrorism in general has again taken center stage. (Audio Podcast Available) But what has changed? Did the London bombings expose a permanent weakness, or was it only there because of a mistake or focus elsewhere? You simply can’t be prepared for everything. In a free …