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• calling arundhati roy

  I’m thinking about making this a continuing series. The Indian Communists have killed over 200 innocent civilians after they sabatoged a rail line in eastern India, causing a derailment Friday. Neo-Marxist Arundhati Roy seems to think that war against these Communist insurgents, who have bullied, tortured, and killed the very rural villagers they claim to [...]

  29 May 2010 Politics, War & Peace; one comment. permalink   

• quote of the day: israeli election edition

  It’s important, the Israelis are told, not to damage Palestinian confidence in the “peace process,” though it is difficult to see how such a process, which is to peace as Velveeta is to cheese, could be further damaged by hard men who have never kept any agreement they’ve made. The Israelis are told to restrain [...]

  10 Feb 2009 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• definition of chutzpah: south asia edition

  Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani opened his pus-filled noise hole and made some defensive grunting noises in the continuing saga in which India points a finger at Pakistan over the November 26th Mumbai attacks, and Pakistan points to “that thing over there in the tree.” Drawing a parallel with the Israeli strikes in Gaza, [...]

  11 Jan 2009 War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• now the indian gov’t tries to convince others to fail their citizens

  Ever in adherence to tradition, India’s government fails to make the distinction between “peace” and “rolling over and taking it”, just as each successive government has done since about the reign of Ashoka: “The Government of India urges utmost restraint so as to give peace a chance as the peace process may well get derailed [...]

  29 Dec 2008 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• street fights and diplomacy

  When I got knocked down by guys bigger than me, she sent me back out and demanded that I bloody their nose so I could walk down that street the next day. –Joe Biden, DNC, August 27 Really, Joe? She didn’t tell you to invite the guys over to discuss a multilateral disarmament? She didn’t [...]

  28 Aug 2008 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• do people not check their acronyms regularly?

  Someday, I’d like to tell the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that they’re motherfuckers. They’d kill me, but I’d die laughing.

  22 Aug 2008 & Cetera, Politics, War & Peace; 2 comments. permalink   

• islamic terror makes the case for its own slaughter

  By now, most have probably heard at least something about the terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Indian bloggers pretty much have the tragedy covered, but I’ve a few thoughts on the matter: First, where are those Islamic groups trying to convince us that theirs is a religion of peace? While CAIR [...]

  27 Jul 2008 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• for those still sympathetic to jimmy carter

  He even managed to find himself giving solace to foreign opponents of the last Democratic administration, as Richard Holbrooke–President Clinton’s chief negotiator at Dayton, attests: Karadzic responded emotionally that he would call former president Carter, with whom he said he was in touch, and started to leave the table. For the only time that long [...]

  23 Jul 2008 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• presidential transitions and subsidized oppo research

  9/11 Commissioners Jamie Gorelick (a deputy AG under Clinton) and former Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA) penned an op-ed in the Times on reducing the transition process in major government departments. They have a good point: it takes forever to change a working bureaucracy (are you listening, Obamaniacs?), and that’s not good for national security. But [...]

  16 Jul 2008 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• how the colombians freed betancourt

  For those of you following the story of the dramatic hostage rescue in Colombia last week, you may wonder how a government helicopter snuck into a leftist rebel camp armed to the teeth. Well, they disguised themselves as members of an NGO. Since the late 1990s, the NGO practice of dragging the military into court [...]

  08 Jul 2008 Politics, Society (or "the social"), War & Peace; no comments. permalink