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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Mom and Dad, and Three Little Children…

The ever widening natural disaster in Japan, the man-made disaster and impending bloodbath in Libya if Gaddafi succeeds in re-capturing Benghazi, all that is holding the world’s attention, and mine of course. Some people, and again I include myself, are also giving thought to the situations in Yemen... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Reflections on the Middle East…Part XV

In view of the catastrophe that has befallen Japan, and whose consequences are only beginning to emerge, everything else seems to pale in comparison. Even the Haitian disaster suddenly seems less significant – it was a devastating quake; here we are dealing with a devastating quake, a devastating... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Peter King's Hearings on Muslim Radicalization…

Some of you may have heard of Rep. Peter King’s decision to hold hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, which has had the predictable result: outrage on the part of the majority of Muslim organizations and the mass media, and probably squirming on the part of the Obama admin. It’s being... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Reflections on the Middle East…Part XIV

To many people, at least to many of those who pay attention to events in the Middle East at all, the Libyan situation is an unfortunate pothole on the road to a new promised land – the final emergence of democracy among people who have chafed virtually forever under despotic regimes. However, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 4, 2011

Are You People Nuts???

No, dear Blogit Bloggers, this question is not directed at you – it will be revealed at the end who’s being questioned here. First this: Have you ever heard of one Laurent Gbagbo? Okay, I don’t blame you. The name wasn’t in my memory bank either, although I know of the Ivory Coast, and I vaguely... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Reflections on the Middle East…Part XIII

As Gaddafi is massacring his own citizens, the world is wringing its hands and pondering the issue. Don’t get me wrong: in view of the fact that the Arab world has come out strongly against intervention and has declared this to be an ’internal matter’ (which it is, of course), clearly a Western... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

I Wonder Who’ll be Next in Line for Gaddafi’s Human Right’s Prize…

I have a LOT of stuff for this blog, and would have a LOT of things to say, but today, for reasons you will find in ‘Thoughts’, I shall restrict myself to one little item which is just dripping with irony in view of recent and ongoing events… Erdoğan and the "Al-Gaddafi Prize" The slogan of the "... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Reflections on the Middle East…Part XII

It was bound to happen, in fact I predicted it… The turbulent events in the Middle East and North Africa, especially those in Libya, are creating strange alliances. Irony of ironies: it took the actions of Moammar Gadhafi, clearly a psychopath in the clinical sense and a hoodlum, to bring out the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The New ‘Barbary Coast’…

This post was prompted by the news that four American sailors whose yacht had been seized by pirates have been killed by these bastards, an event that I had already touched on briefly in yesterday’s post… For hundreds of years Europe suffered from raids by pirates based in North Africa, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Thoughts I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted to Post…

Death and destruction as history plays itself out in the Middle East, in ways not unexpected… Death and destruction has hit the poor people of Christchurch, New Zealand… But the deaths that touched me most were four deaths at sea… I had planned a different post for today, but now I am mourning Jean... Sign in to see full entry.

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