Posts by Simon Grigg
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I only buy a paper if I want to look at the adverts - very rarely.
I only read a physical newspaper on a plane now and that's because it's free.
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I suspect it is the prefered methodology of the West to stand aside and let this sort of thing happen
It worked in the building of America so I guess it's tried and true.
Winning in Afghanistan is an attempt to find a way to break the cycle, but maybe no solution exists.
Well as much as I hate saying it, maybe bringing the Taliban into the discussion is a part of a way forward. Certainly many Afghans seem to think so. A military victory is almost an impossibility.
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And having become involved, we have a national conspiracy amongst ourselves not to mention the war in the hope Al Qaeda won't find out and will leave us alone.
Oh, I think AQ are quite happy with the current state of play in Afghanistan. Tying down the US in a long, almost endless, war of attrition was an oft stated aim.
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Yes Simon both were dirty wars that involved massacres of civillians as a norm rather than an exception.
I'm just not sure how telling one side that their bloodletting is better than the other's is better than Bosnia. They may have taken a hell of long time to do anything in Bosnia but the end result was better than greenlighting and back-patting the Northern Alliance's excesses and then claiming they were doing it to liberate Afghanistan.
Right now, Bosnia is the more successful of the two interventions despite a horrible beginning. One of the problems in Afghanistan is that for many the end result is little better than the problem.
Still, at least they were able to train the CIA in container warfare.
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They'll taste like shit though
The taxi driver I had last week assured me that black dogs are quite delicious.
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And when people talk about copyright as a "natural right", I think we can look across the grand sweep of time, in which copyright can be seen as an anomaly ;-)
And I'm trusting you didn't rush out and vote a week or two back because if we look across the grand sweep of time that right is an anomaly.
I know you had a wink at the end of that post, but seriously Mark, as much as I sympathise and agree with some of your arguments that copyright must change, the idea that history can be used as an argument to adjust copyright does you no favours.
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We could have adopted the Bosnian approach and stood by whilst these persecutions took place, but decided not.
Actually Angus if you read a little history the United Islamic Front had their own wee track record of mass killings and blood letting. We, if we means the west, decided to turn a blind eye to those. It was no better than the Bosnian situation.
It was Massoud's guys who invented the bake'em in a container end for folks they didn't want to share the planet with.
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And perhaps I'm a wee bit old fashioned, but genuine affection doesn't get turned into a cheap and silly photo op. The Clark I respect -- the one who served with honour and dignity, whether I agreed with her or not -- deserved better.
Sorry Craig, that's just sour..I expect better of you too.
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I'm with you Jackie.
I think it was perfectly appropriate. She was a great Prime Minister and as a non-resident, did us proud over and over again. From this far away from the homeland it gave me tingles. Sorry if that's OTT but fuck it..
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I dunno where you guys get the time to watch all this stuff.....maybe I need to multitask more.