Member Profile Total number of comments: 3 (since 2013-11-28 16:53:54) chris Showing comments 3 - 1Page: 1 Campbell: Israeli PM Sharon Threatened Bush with Nuking Iraq (Mearsheimber & Walt vindicated) chris 06/21/2012 at 12:13 pm Sharon's threat to escalate in the event of a scud attack by Saddam is included as a footnote in a Guardian article about the Pak nuke threat. It sounds as if Bush was determined to keep that particular mad dog muzzled. I doubt whether the situation with US and Israel has changed greatly since, despite different actors now in the lead roles. No News is Good News (for Them) chris 01/18/2011 at 5:00 am with 1 replies Surely, this is just the usual US indifference to events outside its borders. Can 'Desperate Housewives' Defeat al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia? Wikileaks chris 12/09/2010 at 5:11 am with 1 replies One of the main reasons for the fall of Communist East Germany was citizens being able to receive West German TV. This has always been rubbish compared to British or American TV, but it still managed to sow the seeds of consumerist aspirations. Showing comments 3 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
Sharon's threat to escalate in the event of a scud attack by Saddam is included as a footnote in a Guardian article about the Pak nuke threat.
It sounds as if Bush was determined to keep that particular mad dog muzzled.
I doubt whether the situation with US and Israel has changed greatly since, despite different actors now in the lead roles.
Surely, this is just the usual US indifference to events outside its borders.
One of the main reasons for the fall of Communist East Germany was citizens being able to receive West German TV. This has always been rubbish compared to British or American TV, but it still managed to sow the seeds of consumerist aspirations.