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2005-11-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Heavy Hand of the Secret Police Impeding Reform in Arab World

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Posted by Steve White 2005-11-15 00:27|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steve White writes:

What a remarkable coincidence.

As the late-night conspiracy talk show hosts are fond of saying, there are no coincidences. But I doubt you'll ever hear them discuss it in _this_ context.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2005-11-15 01:20|| 2005-11-15 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 What a remarkable coincidence. oooh...ouch!

Posted by 2b 2005-11-15 04:52|| 2005-11-15 04:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I've said this before, but this seems a prime moment to expand on the idea a little. Dictators, whatever their flavor, always have their secret police for the status quo is the most precious thing to a Kingy Thingy (or whatever) sort.

When you add in Muzzyness, you get a blending of the very worst of Stalin, Hitler, Mohammed - the bottom of the pit of mankind. I like his Harley, but nothing else about him.

Another accommodation of the Pervy sort that yields tiny amounts of good stuff - and perpetuates evil. I will cheer at his fall with the same gusto reserved for the Mad Mullahs and The House of Saud. The differences are momentary convergence of interests and convenience.

I know - I've already heard the so-called realpolitik crap - the Standard State Department line. Changes nothing - it is convenience and temporary gain, usually miniscule, in exchange for our blind eye to what we would describe as evil under any other circumstances. This too, shall bite us in the ass someday.

O/T P.S. ed - Yes, I can only get Preview to work once in awhile, now. Started about a week ago. Sucks.

Posted by .com 2005-11-15 05:10|| 2005-11-15 05:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Are you getting an error message?

Posted by Fred on Debian 2005-11-15 13:52|| 2005-11-15 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Nope. Nuthin. Just "ignores" the click. I try it every time my post is more than 2-3 sentences. Works about 1 out of 10-12 times, on avg. Using IE, too, which always worked with all of the edit buttons before, which I can't say about Firefox. The only thing I can think of is something thinks there is insufficient memory to fire off a new window, but I can fire off a new IE window when it happens. No real clues to offer, I wish there were. BTW, it failed on this comment. :(

Posted by .com 2005-11-15 13:59|| 2005-11-15 13:59|| Front Page Top

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