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The Next War 2007: Iran
The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that Bush will start a war in Iran this year in order to escape from the bunker.
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Democrats ‘win’ by 10,000 votes
Looking at the results from the US mid-terms on Wednesday, it seemed that the Democrats were going to win the Senate by the thinnest of margins – about 10,000 votes determined the result in the key polls in Montana and Virginia – but did they really win?
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Let’s not hang Saddam…
Even apart from the moral issue – the death penalty is simply wrong – there are many pragmatic reasons who sentencing Saddam Hussein to death by hanging is wrong.
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Moodling on..
The web seems to hate me today, but the screencam movie showing my students how to sign on to my course sites on moodle is finally up on the web at http://www.ucc.ie/academic/history/files/signup.wmv It is 5.5 mb, which will be fine on the campus network but too big for dialup, and while I haven’t been able…
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Write yourself into existence
“….students learn when they are allowed the freedom to use their blogs in order to write themselves into existence as individuals.” Wow. Pure genius from Konrad Glogowski on his ‘Blog of Proximal Developement’
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Disaster in Darfur
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that Darfur is well on the way to becoming another disaster of Rwandan proportions. The difference in this case is that although in this case everyone is willing to use the ‘G’ word, no one will actually act on it.
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Nannystate meets Minority Report
No matter how deeply ‘New Labour’ buys into the Thatcherite free market legacy, if you scratch a bit, you’ll always find the residue of Gosplan hanging about. Tony Blair has thrown out a remarkable speech about targetting future problem children prior to birth.
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Divorced from reality and owing alimony
Only a politician could be so far removed from the reality the rest of us live in to suggest, as Israeli justice minister Haim Ramon did, that the world supports his governments actions in Lebanon. It does raise questions about the language of diplomacy though.
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It’s not a bird, it is a plane…
and it isn’t superman. I am somewhat skeptical about faith the Israeli’s are putting in air power in their current campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon – I think they will find they need boots on the ground the achieve their goals
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Terrorist infrastructure?
So the 2006 Mid East war rages on, and apparently is scheduled to end next week, because Bush has given Israel that long to finish destroying the ‘infrastructure’ of Hezbollah. It raises, in passing, an interesting question about the definition of ‘terrorist’ in international politics – surely if you possess ‘infrastructure’ you have passed into…
