Tag Archives: bashar assad

all in the family: fraternal disorders

Our guys, the good guys are better than Assad’s guys, but only marginally. The bar is rather low. Like Gresham’s Law, the bad tends to drive out the good. The harder and purer the ideology, the fiercer the competition in … Continue reading

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a plateful it is

The level of profoundness and incisiveness, let alone plain vanilla veracity is about at the same level as elementary school Scholastic Book Services paperbacks. Banal, slightly generic, and with lots of pablum serving drivel and spittle. Its the New York … Continue reading

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as the ark turns

Fear. It keeps the economy humming. Gives the impression of scarcity. Inflates prices at a time when deflation is an issue. The war button is the classical economics pump-primer. Better to have all this hardware sitting around rusting in hangars … Continue reading

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the prophet: sweet taste of success

Treat her like a lady… He ordered the idols in the Kaaba destroyed, but left the old forms of worship almost unchanged. The Black Stone remained the focal point of pilgrimages, and the ritual of walking around the shrine seven … Continue reading

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sacred war & the prophet: keep the blade sharpened

The Prophet Armed. Rock the Kaaba.Islam is the only one of the world’s great religions to have been founded on the Sword as well as the Word. It began with  The thirty-nine …. Southern Arabia was a remote and backward … Continue reading

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had-ith enough: incentives for conversion

He was the Night Rider. The Night journey of Mohammed in the black reaches of the sky. Timing is everything….Muslims talk about the Prophet as if they had personally known him. Such stories and sayings, repeated after the Prophet’s death … Continue reading

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left turn to cairo

That Barack Obama is a distinguished Left-winger is no secret. Almost a mark of status and prestige; the little guy fighting for the common guy n’ gal against challenging odds. The story creates its own narrative and takes on its … Continue reading

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friedman: just one of the boys

Thomas Friedman seems to be approaching his expiry date according to the package, that boxed and perishable piece of goods called “dogmatic lefty” . The same recycling of Kraft Dinner socialism and status conscious white liberalism based on that hierarchy … Continue reading

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bargaining: nice guys finish last

The silent language. The subtle ways in which people communicate by means other than words. … Throughout the Middle East bargaining is an underlying pattern which is significantly different from the activity which goes under that name in our culture. … Continue reading

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strike three for assad

Back to the Valley of Tears. Will he be called out on strikes, or take a hack at it hoping to put some wood on the ball? Or just go down swinging? It doesn’t look good for Bashar Assad. Not … Continue reading

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