The attack on Al Jazeera is terrible by itself, but with the other demands it's also a giant step towards war. No sovereign state can tolerate being ordered to cut off diplomatic relations with another state (Iran) or close its major news organization. If Qatar accepts these and the other demands, it loses its independence and becomes a puppet of Saudi Arabia.
Like your uncles, my dad and his brother also fought the Nazis. If they were still alive, they would second your opinion. My dad would say of Holocaust deniers and minimizers, "It doesn't matter how many Jews were killed; if just one Jew was killed because he was a Jew, the crime would be the same." I believe he'd have the same opinion about killing "Middle Easterners."
When I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s, our pastor, a Bircher, used to tell us that Chinese troops were massing in Mexico waiting to attack. Romney's little fantasy is the same drama with new villains.
The term "dirty bomb" as it's been used lately, refers to a chemical explosive packed with radioactive isotopes that are strewn all over the place by the chemical explosion. There's no need for fissile material to do that. It would be a lot easier to steal the isotopes from hospitals and universities than to smuggle it all the way from Iran via Latin America. What shameless baloney!
We're now on the third generations of Kims in North Korea. This may be the first Communist monarchy.
If I'm not mistaken, the Roman emperors were also republican monarchs. Like Assad and Mubarak, they were generals supposedly safeguarding the republic. I wonder if this isn't part of a broader human pattern and not just a gryphon-like hybrid.
The attack on Al Jazeera is terrible by itself, but with the other demands it's also a giant step towards war. No sovereign state can tolerate being ordered to cut off diplomatic relations with another state (Iran) or close its major news organization. If Qatar accepts these and the other demands, it loses its independence and becomes a puppet of Saudi Arabia.
Like your uncles, my dad and his brother also fought the Nazis. If they were still alive, they would second your opinion. My dad would say of Holocaust deniers and minimizers, "It doesn't matter how many Jews were killed; if just one Jew was killed because he was a Jew, the crime would be the same." I believe he'd have the same opinion about killing "Middle Easterners."
When I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s, our pastor, a Bircher, used to tell us that Chinese troops were massing in Mexico waiting to attack. Romney's little fantasy is the same drama with new villains.
The term "dirty bomb" as it's been used lately, refers to a chemical explosive packed with radioactive isotopes that are strewn all over the place by the chemical explosion. There's no need for fissile material to do that. It would be a lot easier to steal the isotopes from hospitals and universities than to smuggle it all the way from Iran via Latin America. What shameless baloney!
We're now on the third generations of Kims in North Korea. This may be the first Communist monarchy.
If I'm not mistaken, the Roman emperors were also republican monarchs. Like Assad and Mubarak, they were generals supposedly safeguarding the republic. I wonder if this isn't part of a broader human pattern and not just a gryphon-like hybrid.