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  • The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008

  • Re: Way too many false conclusions.

    The reasons we see ''peace'' in Tikrit or Baghdad are numerous. There aren't as many executions in rural areas because hit squads have been silencing troublemakers, educators, activists, and liberals in Iraq for 3 years now. If a town had eighteen outspoken activists and you've been killing 5 of them every month for 30 months, you can be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Raath on August 11, 2008

  • Re: The facts remain: Saddam's 5th largest Army defeated as well

    WATCHOUT:as Taliban in Afghanistan totally defeated. New governments elected by the Iraqis and Afghans. Those two 'facts' were planned and done. What occurs afterwards in the politics and culture of those nations is not a 'plan' we can control or..... it seems, neither can they. But, the 100% 'done' facts described above were a success. Killed a ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by gzuckier on April 4, 2008

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • As viewed from Britain

    I have followed US Politics closely since I was in my teens. There are reasons for this, starting with My Lai, and much reinforced by my perception, at age seventeen, that Richard Nixon was crazy enough to start a nuclear war to create an insane distraction from Watergate. That scared me badly and it was years before I got over it Anyway, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by anarch on October 2, 2007