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Quite an excellent piece, which should be required reading at the State Department and White House. I might only add that following the lead of the French Expeditionary Corps after Dien Bien Phu was something of a disaster as well. Of course, how often have we learned from the missteps of history?
Italy will forcibly return thousands of Tunisian illegal immigrants unless other European countries accept them as the situation reaches breaking point.
In recent weeks more than 18,000 immigrants have arrived on the tiny rocky island of Lampedusa, pushing resources to the limit. Many of them have been moved by ship to holding areas on the mainland but there the migrants climb over flimsy fences and escape.
Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini today launched a stinging attack on Europe and France in particular. He said: 'They must be repatriated or distributed around other European countries. There has been a flagrant lack of solidarity from Italy's European neighbours, who have failed to help starting with France.'
Relations between Rome and Paris have been tense since the start of the allied no fly zone as Italy had wanted NATO to take immediate command while France first opposed the idea and then dragged out the discussions.
Italy also felt left out after it emerged that America, Britain, Germany and France had discussed plans for Libya's future in a video conference without being invited.
Frattini added that 'forced repatriation is an extreme measure but it cannot be excluded' - the solution being urged by fellow ruling right wing coalition anti-immigrant Northern League.
That party's leader, Umberto Bossi, who had once suggested the navy should shell boats carrying immigrants, simply said: 'They should all f*** off home.'
Earlier this week, Berlusconi told a cheering crowd on Lampedusa that he would clear the island within '60 hours' and that he had even bought a home there to show solidarity.
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Potential solution: cede Lampedusa to Tunisia. The refugees are no longer in Italy.
Of course, you can't carry this idea too far or Florence will end up part of Tunisia.
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...that was attempt before. Their efforts were finally done in by the very same people who had set up a branch office, so to speak, already in London.
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Berlusconi promises to end the 'invasion of migrants'
He also tells a joke.
''During a poll, a sample of women were asked if they wanted to make love with Berlusconi. Thirty per cent said maybe. The other 70 per cent said, 'Again?''
Having arrived at the Gates of Heaven, Barrack Obama meets a man with a Beard. 'Are you Mohammed?' he asks. 'No my son, I am St. Peter; Mohammed is higher up.' Peter then points to a ladder that rises into the clouds.
Delighted that Mohammed should be higher than St. Peter, Obama climbs the Ladder in great strides, climbs up through the clouds and comes into a
Room where he meets another bearded man. He asks again, 'Are you Mohammed?' 'Why no he answers, I am Moses; Mohammed is higher still.'
Exhausted, but with a heart full of joy he climbs the ladder yet again, He discovers a larger room where he meets an angelic looking man with a
Beard. Full of hope, he asks again, 'Are you Mohammed?' 'No, I am Jesus, the Christ...you will find Mohammed higher up. '
Mohammed higher than Jesus! Man, oh man! Obama can hardly contain his delight and climbs and climbs ever higher. Once again, he reaches an even larger room where he meets this truly magnificent looking man with a silver white beard and once again repeats his question:
"Are you Mohammed?" he gasps as he is by now, totally out of breath from all his climbing.. 'No, my son.... I am Almighty God, the Alpha and the Omega, but you look exhausted. Would you like a cup of coffee?"
Obama says, Yes please! As God looks behind him, he claps his hands and yells out: "Hey Mohammed-two coffees!""
Keep your trust in God...your president is an idiot
[An Nahar] A court on Wednesday ordered the race hate trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders to go ahead.
The trial opened in October last year, but was abruptly halted three weeks later when the judges trying him were ordered to step down by a panel of their peers who upheld the politician's claims of bias.
But the Amsterdam court on Wednesday dismissed the MP's objections that the court and prosecutors were not competent to try him because the alleged offenses were not committed in Amsterdam.
"The trial will continue," chief judge Marcel van Oosten told the court.
Wilders, 47, faces five counts of giving offence to Mohammedans and of inciting hatred against Mohammedans and people of non-Western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans, in numerous public statements since October 2006.
Wilders has called Islam "fascist", likened the Koran to Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and campaigned for a ban on the burqa and the building of new mosques in the Netherlands.
He shot to international notoriety in 2008 with the release of his short film, "Fitna", which mixes Koranic verses with footage of Islamic exemplar attacks.
Wilders lawyers claimed that the film was released on the Internet in the United States and was not released in Amsterdam but van Oosten said the even so it was aimed at a Dutch audience.
"The film is, when you take into account its contents and sub-titles in the Dutch language, destined for a Dutch audience," he told the court.
The MP, whose Party for Freedom gives parliamentary support to a right-leaning coalition, faces up to a year in jail or a 7,600 euro (10,300 dollar) fine for comments made in his campaign to "stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands".
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In a sense, Good riddance.
At least to the Kleptokrats.
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The last time they tried holding a trial, the prosecution called for the case to be thrown out as baseless, and the judges were dismissed for bias. It will be very interesting to see what MP Wilders and his legal team do this time to tie the Powers That Be in knots.
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This trial, the more unfair it gets, may prove to be the best vote getter that Wilders' party could hope for.
Right now, they are not in the government, but the government has to consult with them, in exchange for support. This is the cat bird's seat of considerable power but no responsibility. Yet without publicity, they could fade from view.
Enter the trial. Every time they open their mouths at Wilders, it refreshes the public mind about his parties issues, and why the government is trying to persecute him unfairly, for stating the truth.
Win or lose, at this point he wins. If they convict him, at the next elections, his party will probably be the majority.
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