This is a positive sign, I think. On the two-year anniversary of Saddam’s death by hanging, Iraq is preparing to open a new museum that will allow Iraqis to see up close such macabre mementos of mass executions, torture, and other atrocities committed in Saddam’s decades-long rule. … It will showcase torture devices such as [...]
I do not, for the life of me, understand why otherwise intelligent and decent human beings hold Che Guevara in such high esteem. Guevara was a wicked man with hands so stained with blood that all the bleach in the world could not get them clean. Yet the left, especially the Hollywood left, loves him [...]
While we’re up here bickering over the election, the tyrants around the world are still perfecting their repugnant craft. Hugo Chavez, Hollywood’s second-favorite tyrant, has expelled Human Rights Watch from Venezuela. He claims they’re in cahoots with President Bush to overthrow him. Strangely enough, he’s half right. Though HRW and the President aren’t working together, [...]
When it comes to stories about Russia’s invasion of Georgia (such as this one which tells how Russia is trying to make formal what it’s been doing for a long time), reporters make one fundamental mistake that colors their coverage wrongly. I’ve made the same mistake in some conversations I’ve had about Georgia. The mistake [...]
One of the things that soothed people about China prior to the Olympics was that the government was going to specially designate three “protest zones” inside Beijing, reasonably close to the Olympic venues. Folks who wished to protest the presence of the Games, or the Chinese government’s policies, could apply for a permit and protest [...]
Yesterday I noted a post by National Review’s Jay Nordlinger about the Chinese National Anthem Switcheroo and his commentary on dictatorial regimes. Today, he has a follow-up with a comment I also find worth consideration: It should be pretty uncontroversial to knock the Chinese Politburo in an American publication. Something has gone screwy in our [...]
Jay Nordlinger” “That’s one of the worst things about Communist and dictatorial regimes: They are cruel to little girls.” I think that is the most beautiful and insightful criticism I’ve ever read about tyranny. It drills down to the very heart of a dictator’s depravity. That’s one of the reasons I appreciate Nordlinger’s writing as [...]
Should I expect to see a “No Blood for Oil” rally from International ANSWER, Code Pink, or one of the other groups in constant protest mode the last eight years over the latest developements in the Sudan? I’m just asking because, with the Olympics in high-gear, now would be an opportune time to point out [...]
Russia continues to attack Georgia itself by air while its troops now have undisputed control of South Ossetia. Russia had already devastated the port city of Poti and it intensified its attacks today with bombing missions against military targets outside the Georgian capital of Tblisi and an all=out bombing offensive on the city of Gori. [...]
Ever since the Rose Revolution of 2003, Vladimir Putin and his fellow autocrats in Russia have been looking for an excuse to break bad on Georgia. I’m not sure why they didn’t simply try to poison him to death like they tried with Viktor Yuschenko, but in any case they have long had their eyes [...]
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