Category: Random
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Boots and bodybags
Yesterday’s fighting in Bint Jbeil has brought home a harsh truth about boots on the ground in war – they come with a quota of bodybags attached.
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Porterhouse and Fusty Ferret
Two days in Dublin with no kids and, more importantly, no need to drive meant time for bookshops and nice beer.
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I’m meltiiinnnngg…….
It’s the second day of 30 degree C heat here, with rock bottom humidity. I can’t live in this weather.
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Splits and failures in Darfur
The Sudanese Civil war drags on, and not surprisingly, the Khartoum government isn’t doing much to help end it.
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Can the Centre hold in Darfur?
I don’t see how the current peace deal between the Sudanese Government and the largest opposition group can hold up without the support of the smaller opposition groups in Darfur
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America’s Secret War
While people who have not kept track of the main events in the Global War on Terror will find the narrative in this book useful, I am not very impressed with George Friedman’s interpretation of the ‘secret’ motivation behind the US invasion of Iraq
