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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

  • The loss of Zimbabwe and South Africa to the Reds . . .

    . . . compares favorably with the loss of Afghanistan, Tibet, Hong Kong, and China to the Socialist/Communist ideologues elsewhere. Of course, the Anglo-American world Realpolitik has suffered it's share of losses to Right Wing Ideologue regimes, as well. Look no further than France, Italy, and Iran among others. We could even mention America in ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on April 21, 2008

  • Comparative Religion and Atrocity

    Perhaps we are timid about exploring the relationship between Islam and violence because it would require too close an examination of the relationship between religion and atrocity elsewhere, particularly in modern America. Most religions profess to promote peace and to prohibit the killing of one's fellow man. However, many of the greatest ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by theo cratoclastus on July 31, 2007

  • Re: God-Fearing Persons and the Incongruity of Jihad

    Hitchins does raise a point, however. I have read the Koran (in translation) out of curiosity. (It can also be characterized as falling under the heading of ''know thine enemy,'' given that the Islamist fanatics have read little else.) As religious writings go, it's no better and no worse than most. As with the Bible, you can quote anything in it ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Cyrano on July 30, 2007