Category: The World At Large
Iraq, Land of the Eternal Civil War
Well, the slant on this story is a new one on me. Apparently, Iraq is about to slide into a new civil war because the Iraqi government is taking out after the Madhi Army. So, it’s civil war when Sunni and Shia fight. Now, it’s also civil war when Shia and Shia fight. And next [...]
What I’d Like Bush to Say to Hu
It looks like the President has been talking to the Chinese leader about those missile parts. Here’s the AP story in its entirety as of 3:52 PM: President Bush told Chinese President Hu Jintao that a “mistake had been made” in shipment of nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan. Yep. And I dearly hope that he [...]
Free Tibet, Not By Decency But By Greed
At the end of a rather forceful editorial on China and Tibet, Jay Ambrose flubs the finish. Various commentators have suggested what that compromise might be. You can keep Tibet as part of China, while simultaneously granting it extensive leeway in managing its own internal affairs, much as you have done in Hong Kong. In [...]
Will Sarkozy Lead an Olympic Boycott? Let’s Hope!
Go, Go, Sarko! Nicolas Sarkozy became the first world leader to suggest that he might boycott the Beijing Olympics yesterday as Britain and France increased the pressure on China over Tibet. President Sarkozy signalled that he may stay away from the opening ceremony in August unless the Chinese authorities exercised restraint in dealing with the [...]
The Taiwan Trigger Story: Bureaucratic Screw-Up or Diplomatic Coup?
Was the Pentagon’s errant delivery a mistake? The official line, that’s being accepted without criticism from the MSM, is that we were supposed to deliver some helicopter batteries to Taiwan but instead we delivered fuses for Minuteman ICBMs. China has duly and loudly protested, as you would expect and the Secretary of Defense is promising [...]
The Child Slavery That Dare Not Speak Its Name
In England, almost 2100 children are missing from school without explanation. Authorities believe that the children were subjects of forced marriage and have launched an education program to make kids aware that in a free country, they need not be forced (or, in many cases, sold) into such a thing. Part of that education program [...]
Why I’m Not Worried About China
I was listening to Glenn Beck on the radio a day or so ago. He was inveighing on China and how one day that country will lumber ashore, like the Cloverfield monster, and rampage all through our economy, leaving us devastated and mostly confused. He was passionate and, as he usually is, pretty reasonable. Also, [...]
Zimbawe is Dying and It’s All The Racists’ Fault. Right?
Europe’s favorite leftist dictator Robert Mugabe has finally figured out who’s to blame for the rampant starvation and disease that is killing his country. Nope, it not his fault. It’s the fault of “the dark forces of imperialism” and the “hate programme by Britain and her fellow racists”. A real shocker, huh?
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