http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/Political Commentary hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/612201...appears to be progressing at an ever increasing rate, in large ways and in small. Hovering, tsk-tsking, always ready with a band-aid, attempting to prevent us from repeating explorations of wall-sockets with pointed scissors or the investigation of the cat’s ability to swim by throwing her...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/609692Circumstances beyond my control are keeping me from spending much time on Blogit - I am reading little (sorry, folks) and writing even less. I certainly have no time for writing anything of substance, but that’s okay - the last thing I need is get involved in something that threatens to turn into...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/608335When I began this series, it had the title ‘The Mumbai Attacks – Another Watershed Event’, which I changed later. When I wrote that, I may have been a bit hasty, since it was not a watershed event in the way the 9/11 attack was. But it was one for me, in a slightly different sense: For me it was...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/607675It is somehow fitting that, as this series is nearing its end, the same Blogger who asked for the ‘what’ of the solution also asked about the ‘how’. Ciel writes: "What?" is an easier question to answer than "How?" It isn't as if Western cultures have no experience altering or attempting to alter...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/606230Finally we’re arriving at the most important and also most difficult part of Ciel’s comment, namely at her questions. Here they are again: “It comes down to this: What do you suggest be done about it? What do you think Western governments can do about it? To begin with, and to be absolutely clear...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/604953For the last couple of weeks I have had intermittent computer problems, which is why I wasn’t around much. An hour here, a couple of hours there, to deal with matters I simply have to attend to, including brief visits to Blogit, before taking the box back to my guru for further treatment. He had...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/603252We are now finally getting to Ciel’s comment, which I will have to deal with at some length. Here’s Ciel’s comment once more: “It comes down to this: What do you suggest be done about it? What do you think Western governments can do about it? The notion of a "just war" is a harder and harder...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/602547In my last post I promised to address the comments and questions put by several Bloggers, and what follows will to some degree do that, but my answers will have to be brief. For I read TAPS’ post a little earlier today, here, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Taps_dance/602501, and she...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/601141As has been the case so often with this series, the few who do read them frequently offer comments that simply must be addressed. So it was again with the previous post, where metalrat’s, bythewindowsill’s comments and also in particular Ciel’s question forced me to re-examine my thinking. And as...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/599883I owe my few readers an apology! Circumstances beyond my control have prevented me from spending much time on Blogit, making it difficult to read and comment, let alone write. But I do want to continue with this series and bring it to a conclusion soon, even if not today. You may recall that,...