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 …
Category Archives: War and Peace
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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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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