With a little luck.... ladeda [Paul McCartney & Wings] From: Dick Eastman oldickeastman@... this is just the text of a mailer that is designed to...
No posts to this group for a while, but I would be interested in people's views on the latest geopolitical developments. Seems to me that Al Qaeda has just...
Wade Allsopp
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Mar 16, 2004 12:04 am
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... withdrawn ... other ... similar ... that ... What has happened is the Spain has questioned its raison d'etre for being the faithful lackey. Right now there...
... I'm sure this is also how many people in Spain and probably France and Germany also think. For myself I think the way and the speed with which Zapatero...
Wade Allsopp
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Mar 30, 2004 11:34 am
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... As the head of a sovereign nation acting on national interest, he is answerable only to Spain. He was not required to put Spain in harm's way in the first...
... I think we need to distinguish legally justified from morally justified. I think his prime motivation for announciing the pull out of Iraq etc so quickly...
Wade Allsopp
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Mar 31, 2004 4:49 pm
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... The US makes no such distinctions when it blatantly disregards world opinion and overrides the UN. The foreign policy of any nation is based purely on ...
As regards the title of this thread: I was originally opposed to the Iraq liberation, on the grounds that countries - including and particular mine - shouldn't...
... It's been suggested by smarter people than me that the U.N. is actually *structurally incapable* of acting as a moral agent (ie a force for good) in the...
... piece "The Holocaust Shrug - Why is there so much indifference to the liberation of Iraq?"<< --Maybe then we can ask 'why is Bush so silent on the ...
... While I cannot begrudge your holding a negative opinion about the quondam Iraqi regime, I am curious to know your/the US' locus standi on unilaterally ...
... And in which century did diplomacy by ostracization/exclusion work in lieu of a policy of constructive engagement ? Even if we were to accept the premise...
Michael, Thanks for a fantastic piece - thoughtful, well-reasoned and persuasive. I agree that the Bush administration's selective concern with human rights ...
... No, not has to be - merely should be. Which is why Blair talked Bush into going to the U.N. in the very first instance, waiting months, and then going back...
... Try the last one, when we faced down fascist totalitarianism and then communist totalitarianism. We also went from a tiny handful of democracies at the end...
... I would have thought South Africa was an even more clear cut example of this policy working....
Wade Allsopp
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Apr 3, 2004 1:02 pm
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... Paying your UN dues would be a good start. Acting by consensus takes time. Its not an easy task to carry 180 different opinions, reconcile them and take...
... And of course, the inconvenient fact that a majority of Pakistanis rate Musharaff higher than previous democratic alternatives is something you can ignore....
... This is an extremely provocative comment but actually I think gets to the heart of the debate over the legitimacy of the invasion/liberation of Iraq. I...
Wade Allsopp
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Apr 6, 2004 9:35 am
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... Neither was ostracized - both were appeased. One fell after military confrontation, the other could not take its own weight. Try again. ... By "we" I hope...
... I'm referring to the gaping hole in the jus ad bellum (right to go to war) in this conflict. Looking at the requirements 1. Just authority What is the US'...
Suresh Nageswaran wrote ... I think these are much more sensible points than those you raised earlier. But I do think they reflect a pre 9-11 viewpoint. Let's...
Wade Allsopp
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Apr 7, 2004 12:26 pm
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... hand for Musharref, and move smartly to those arseheads in the House of Saud.<< --Of course, damaging Musharraf would likely put Pakistan's nuclear weapons...
Well it doesn't look too good does it. Of course we don't get many pictures of the places where there aren't burning lorries, AK47 wielding gansters etc, but...
Wade Allsopp
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Apr 9, 2004 9:27 pm
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In the "Continuing my Love-Hate Relationship with the Guardian" department, they recently ran a really fantastic profile of Daniel Dennett (the eminent ...
Below is a repost from Sun Feb 02, 2003, 465 days ago. Or by another metric, 880 "coalition" military deaths (so far -- keep in mind that the death rate is...
... The Iraqi Human Rights Center, which was set up and is run by Iraqis, has been poring through the records of the former Bathist regime - which enumerate in...
Although Michael makes a good and often ignored poin - and I think its also important to take into consideration the Freedom of Thought that is now enjoyed by...
Wade Allsopp
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May 14, 2004 11:06 pm
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... eminates primarily from those who are reluctant to admit that they were wrong.< --Reluctant is putting it mildly. The more that has been sacrificed to an...
To be fair, the other issue is the question of what would happen if the Coalition DOES pull out. The opposition to the war has given very little insight into...
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