Perhaps a more difficult but no less necessary task is to speak for those who have been designated as our enemies. What of the National Liberation Front, that strangely anonymous group we call “VC” or “communists”? What must they think of the United States of America when they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of Diem, which helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in the South? What do they think of our condoning the violence which led to their own taking up of arms? How can they believe in our integrity when now we speak of “aggression from the North” as if there were nothing more essential to the war? How can they trust us when now we charge them with violence after the murderous reign of Diem and charge them with violence while we pour every new weapon of death into their land? Surely we must understand their feelings, even if we do not condone their actions. Surely we must see that the men we supported pressed them to their violence. Surely we must see that our own computerized plans of destruction simply dwarf their greatest acts.
Schoolchildren should no longer be forced to memorise facts and figures because such information is readily available on the internet, says some Canadian bussinessman that the article calls a major commentator on such issues. Because , you know, when has a website ever been wrong?
Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President is the final product of an eighteen month Saban Center at Brookings-Council on Foreign Relations project. These suggestions border on the tepid, but would, if put in practice, still be the boldest move the US has put into practice since the Geneva initiative.
What does it say that, with 130 members of the House and 23 in the Senate who voted against the war, Obama chooses to hire Democrats who made the same judgement as Bush and McCain?
At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
Scientists said a lack of rigour in GCSEs - fuelled by a culture of "teaching to the test" - was destroying teenagers' problem-solving and thinking skills. It came as research suggested standards demanded by schools have dramatically declined in the last 50 years.
Eight phenominal plugins that should be in just about every Wordpress developer's toolbox. This had some amazing code I hadn't come across before. Spiffy stuff.
Sort of a creepy outing list using google maps. Obviously the creators behind this aren't trying to incite any action or violence against these people. Um, obviously.
While the BNP is a particularly loathesome organization, we must remember that is is a legal political party in the UK. If you don't like that, blame Labour, not the BNP. You're living in a Labour government which allows the BNP to exist. Saying that people should be sacked from their jobs because of party affiliation is a bit rich and smacks of Red Scare tactics from the era of McCarthyism in the US. Except communism actually was illegal there during that time. These people are racist, homophobic isolationists. Don't give them the status of 'victim.' It's a legal party and must be treated as such.
i found this quote while reading some browser news: "IE 8 isn't earth-shattering by any means -- and that is actually a good thing. We don't need explosively new ideas in the enterprise world."
Perhaps a more difficult but no less necessary task is to speak for those who have been designated as our enemies. What of the National Liberation Front, that strangely anonymous group we call “VC” or “communists”? What must they think of the United States of America when they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of Diem, which helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in the South? What do they think of our condoning the violence which led to their own taking up of arms? How can they believe in our integrity when now we speak of “aggression from the North” as if there were nothing more essential to the war? How can they trust us when now we charge them with violence after the murderous reign of Diem and charge them with violence while we pour every new weapon of death into their land? Surely we must understand their feelings, even if we do not condone their actions. Surely we must see that the men we supported pressed them to their violence. Surely we must see that our own computerized plans of destruction simply dwarf their greatest acts.
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