My apologies for not providing more links myself… time is short… but, if you do a search on the Internet for the progression of a nations or areas stability and civility you will see that before a people can feel empowered and safe, they must have access to the basics. Food, water, heat, and a …
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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 …
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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