Leave it to the Japanese, the most inventive people on the planet. They’ve come up with a chewing gum that enlarges women’s breasts. I wonder if they’re working on chewing tobacco for “male enhancement”? Not that I need it, of course…
I expect to start getting spam hawking it to me any day now.
I was looking up info about Lebanon, and I came across this interesting page. But there seems to be something missing:
Lebanon finally gained its independence in 1946, but was unfortunately ravaged by a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992
At the war’s conclusion, the Lebanese government and people finally established a more equitable political system, and began to rebuild the damaged infrastructure. Some cultural and religious conflicts (rather common in the Middle East) do remain, and the country still struggles with reforms.
No mention whatsoever of the country just to the east.
Contrast it with this page, from the same site, in which there’s no apparent hesitation to use the “O” word:
Today the Gaza Strip and West Bank (shown on the map above) are partially Israeli occupied, and the ever-changing boundaries and status of same are subject to on-going Israeli-Palestinian agreements and negotiations.
And note this map of some imaginary country called “Palestine.” And it uses that “O” word as well, with regard to the Golan Heights.
I guess that there are occupations, and then there are “occupations.”
I was looking up info about Lebanon, and I came across this interesting page. But there seems to be something missing:
Lebanon finally gained its independence in 1946, but was unfortunately ravaged by a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992
At the war’s conclusion, the Lebanese government and people finally established a more equitable political system, and began to rebuild the damaged infrastructure. Some cultural and religious conflicts (rather common in the Middle East) do remain, and the country still struggles with reforms.
No mention whatsoever of the country just to the east.
Contrast it with this page, from the same site, in which there’s no apparent hesitation to use the “O” word:
Today the Gaza Strip and West Bank (shown on the map above) are partially Israeli occupied, and the ever-changing boundaries and status of same are subject to on-going Israeli-Palestinian agreements and negotiations.
And note this map of some imaginary country called “Palestine.” And it uses that “O” word as well, with regard to the Golan Heights.
I guess that there are occupations, and then there are “occupations.”
I was looking up info about Lebanon, and I came across this interesting page. But there seems to be something missing:
Lebanon finally gained its independence in 1946, but was unfortunately ravaged by a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992
At the war’s conclusion, the Lebanese government and people finally established a more equitable political system, and began to rebuild the damaged infrastructure. Some cultural and religious conflicts (rather common in the Middle East) do remain, and the country still struggles with reforms.
No mention whatsoever of the country just to the east.
Contrast it with this page, from the same site, in which there’s no apparent hesitation to use the “O” word:
Today the Gaza Strip and West Bank (shown on the map above) are partially Israeli occupied, and the ever-changing boundaries and status of same are subject to on-going Israeli-Palestinian agreements and negotiations.
And note this map of some imaginary country called “Palestine.” And it uses that “O” word as well, with regard to the Golan Heights.
I guess that there are occupations, and then there are “occupations.”
These images aren’t the whole reason, but they sure didn’t help. And they’re pretty darned funny.
These images aren’t the whole reason, but they sure didn’t help. And they’re pretty darned funny.
These images aren’t the whole reason, but they sure didn’t help. And they’re pretty darned funny.
Amir Tehari reviews the bidding two years after the toppling of Saddam’s brutal regime.
The most ardent advocates of the anti-war case are remnants of the supposedly revolutionary left that, in almost every other case, regard the law as nothing but a bourgeois prop to keep the masses in check. The spectacle of Leninists, Trotskyistes and Maoists beating their chests about the legality of toppling a tyrant is surely a treat for all students of politics.
Indeed.
Victor Davis Hanson comments on the mass Godwinization of contemporary political discourse:
At first glance, all this wild rhetoric is preposterous. Hitler hijacked an elected government and turned it into a fascist tyranny. He destroyed European democracy. His minions persecuted Christians, gassed over six million Jews, and created an entire fascistic creed predicated on anti-Semitism and the myth of a superior Aryan race.
Whatever one thinks of Bush
Victor Davis Hanson comments on the mass Godwinization of contemporary political discourse:
At first glance, all this wild rhetoric is preposterous. Hitler hijacked an elected government and turned it into a fascist tyranny. He destroyed European democracy. His minions persecuted Christians, gassed over six million Jews, and created an entire fascistic creed predicated on anti-Semitism and the myth of a superior Aryan race.
Whatever one thinks of Bush