A three-day blitz to take out the entire Iranian military, and the Shiites in Iraq and Lebanon will silently/meekly watch from the sidelines? In that sick way that the President’s spin doctors think, bombing Iran back into the Stone Age is probably their last hope to make things look relatively better in Iraq and Afghanistan… …
Category: America
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Sep 02 2007
Out of Egypt
Ms. Rice, Thank you. I just finished reading the paperback version of your novel [Christ the Lord – Out of Egypt]. I immediately detected a Catholic flavor to your tale, which is OK. I saw it in Mel Gibson’s movie as well. What I didn’t understand was the insertion of “Arabian” mercenaries on at least …
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Aug 26 2007
Børre demands an explanation
Europeans, and perhaps most Americans along the two coasts, have been more or less secular for so long that they probably can’t understand the depth or political clout of the religious mythology surrounding Israel. It has completely trumped rational thought. It is bad theology and it’s definitely bad foreign policy, but this bizarre love affair …
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Aug 24 2007
A frenzy of flummery
Dear editor, There is a frenzy of flummery about Islam in this newspaper, on radio and television, and even from pulpits across America. I suspect most of it comes from people who never actually met a Muslim. We Americans used to be a people who challenged ignorance and prejudice, but perhaps that noble sentiment died …
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Aug 23 2007
Abracadabra
Thanks. Very interesting. Finally, a few Americans are starting to get a clue how dangerously wacky this premillennial stuff is. Kinda funny when it’s a bunch of hillbillies playing with snakes. Not so funny when it dictates foreign policy and kills hundreds of thousands and dispossesses millions more. Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:37 PM …
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Aug 08 2007
Arkansas stories
Note that the camera makes me look MUCH fatter than I really am! Two stories: At the DC reunion, we ran into Helen Thomas at Mama Ayesha’s. Good thing, because we had swilled too many Almazas and were hell-bent on brawling with the class of 77, if we could only find out where they …
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Aug 01 2007
Debka.com
Some first impressions about http://www.debka.com/ — it seems to be a right-wing(ish?) Jewish version of the Drudge Report. Not surprising — I’ve been reading Haaretz for nearly 10 years and have observed that the entire country, as well as our own, is drifting in that direction. That, or I’m in a free-fall towards the left fringe of …
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