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20070726 Quid Facis- Moral Paralysis
Chris over at Quid Facis posts a link to an excellent article at Real Clear Politics. Both weblogs and the article are definitely worth your time. -=DLH=-
Posted in Entities, History, Nations, Quid Facis, Society, United States, War on Terror, West, the, World Watch
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20070606 Freedom Is Not Free
And sometimes we forget that Americans are not the only ones paying the price. We are not, nor have we ever been, in this fight alone. Our allies’ soldiers need support and love as much as our own soldiers do, unfortunately they often come from countries where such support and love can be hard to come by. Continue reading
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20070312 World Watch- Remembering History Rather Than Repeating It
I recently saw the movie 300, a modern, storyteller retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, arguably one of the most important battles in all of Western history. The movie itself was what it was-a hyperviolent, CGI animated, cinematographic masterpiece with a shallow plot and dialog used as an excuse to advance the audience from one action sequence to the next-and this post is not intended as a review of the film, as there are plenty more capable reviews than any I might produce. Continue reading
Posted in Entities, fundamentalist Islam, History, Islam, Media, Military, Society, War on Terror, West, the, World Watch
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20061003 World Watch Focus- The Geneva Compromise
In 1938, Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain and arguably then leader of the free world, returned from negotiations with Nazi Germany that resulted in the ceding of the Sudetenland, then part of Czechoslovakia, to Germany in return for some assurances that Germany would not engage in a wider war of ‘German Unification’. This settlement, known as the Munich Agreement, resulted in Chamberlain’s famous quote that peace had been secured. A year later, Europe and the world would be embroiled in World War Two. Continue reading
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20060829 World Watch Focus: Doing Something About Something
The headlines of recent months have been full of dire news and more dire predictions about a host if international issues, mostly swirling around Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, with a lesser focus on places like Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These headlines and their associated articles, however, point to a real fact that even these articles, their authors, and their readers often miss, and that is the fact that all of these places are part of real problems that really need to be dealt with. Continue reading
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