Posted in politics on 26 August 2008 - 26 אב 5768
N CASE You’ve missed the political points that are being driven home this week: Russia : Georgia :: USA : (Iraq*Kosovo). Oh, and we’re hypocritical snots.
Mind you: I support the rights of small peoples to demand independence - especially when it’s a case of Genocide in the Name of Jesus.
But I think [...]
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Posted in politics, uberfrum on 15 August 2008 - 15 אב 5768
HE Globe and Mail asks one of the more important questions of the week: Is Russia morphing into another USSR?
“Moscow apparently calculates that its brute seizure of another country’s territory can be disguised as a ‘peacekeeping’ operation to prevent ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ by the Georgians. A sophisticated press operation to popularize this mendacious [...]
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Posted in politics on 11 August 2008 - 11 אב 5768
N 1931 Japan manufactured an “incident” and used that event as an excuse to invade China. Japan claimed that she had been attacked and the resulting invasion was only to protect herself from the horrid Chinese. In fact, it was a land grab for oil and resources.
The US has recently pulled the same [...]
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