Thursday, 11 November 2010

Tuesday, 9th November 2010


melaniephillips

Cutting and running? No, Prime Minister

11:16pm


It would appear that on both sides of the pond, the military top brass are firmly pushing US and UK leaders away from their disastrous commitment to pull out of Afghanistan next year. As was pointed out here and elsewhere, the timetabled pledge made by Obama and echoed by the Brits plumbed quite unfathomable depths of idiocy. It effectively told the Taleban that all they had to do was sit out the withdrawal and victory would then be theirs.

Subsequently, remarks by General Petraeus, echoed in due course by Defence Secretary Gates, suggested on the contrary that American forces would not pull out of Afghanistan until and unless the key condition had been met: that the Afghans themselves were in a position to keep the Taleban at bay. Which did not look like it was going to happen by...

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Jews for Injustice Against Jews

9:39pm

No sooner had the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared his principled stand in support of Israel and against anti-Jew bigotry – even at the expense of his country’s seat on the Security Council of the Club of Terror – than he was venomously attacked by... Jews. Specifically, those obnoxious Finklers, the ‘Independent Jewish Voices’ – part of that broader coalition of hatred which should surely be called Jews for Injustice Against Jews.

According to these individuals, rising Jew-hatred is but a figment of Prime Minister Harper’s imagination; any such claim is merely a device to shut down freedom of speech. Quite why the Canadian Prime Minister should wish to shut down freedom of speech, and for a cause to which he has no obvious endemic affinity, and on behalf of such a cause furthermore to court such ostracism in...

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