Presidents Obama and Chavez and Secretary of State Clinton are all among the throngs of politicians around the world calling for the reinstatement of ousted Honduran president Zelaya. The rallying cry is that Zelaya is the democratically elected president and that reinstating him would restore constitutionality to Honduras. This is not only gross patronization to [...]
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This is from, Jihad Watch who in turn got it from, Infidel Bloggers Alliance. I never thought of the Fins as the type to back down from a fight. I always had this idea that they were rugged individualists who prided themselves on their independence. Through 700 years of foreign occupation, they were able to [...]
Iraq never should have been a country. Its borders are lines drawn in the sand by colonial powers after World War I. The various peoples have no historic ties to bind them together in neighborly love nor do they have political, religious, or ideological ties. Saddam Hussein was able to keep the country nominally unified [...]
Pakistan’s President, Pervez Musharraf has in recent weeks started to look more and more like a dictator. He postponed elections (he wasn’t elected to start with), sacked the Supreme Court and padded it with supporters, placed former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto under house arrest, and rounded up hundreds of political opponents. He is also a close [...]