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Spengler: Women as priests? Women never forgive anything!
2005-04-26
Posted by:tipper

#2  Middle Eastern governments are not quite governments in the Western sense. They resemble hotels that rent rooms to paying customers of varying persuasions. One has to hold the hotel manager accountable for what goes in inside the rooms

Exactly. The sources of most problems in the world today are brutal, incompetent, kleptocratic governments.
Posted by: thibaud (aka lex)   2005-04-26 2:27:09 PM  

#1  The second 'question' was just as good. An excerpt:

The old maxim applies, "Beat your children every day. If you do not know what they did wrong, they do." Your critics complain that you acted in the absence of precise intelligence. Just the opposite is true. In the absence of precise intelligence, the optimal course of action is to overthrow a suspect government. Any government will do. Syria or Iran might have done as well as Iraq. As long as the governments of the Muslim world believe that you will tear them limb from limb if they support terrorism, they will behave.
Posted by: mrp   2005-04-26 12:27:31 PM  

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