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Promachus - December 2006

Saddam to hang

December 30th 2006 02:29
As I write this blog, there are reports that Saddam Hussein may hang within hours, certainly by Sunday. Yesterday one read reports of Irais queuing up in the streets to be his executioner. If there were any doubts about his punishment, this fact should remove them.

I am terribly impressed with the Irqai judiciary which did not allow this trial to lag on for centuries and allowed the justice to be swift, in spite of the best efforts of the likes of Ramsey Clark to derail it.

As usual the elites are taking taking he's evil but capital punishment is a sin line. It's interesting, in all those societies where liberal philosphies have been implemented with 100% complteness, people are killed, gassed, shot by firing squads without dropping an eyelid. However, they all turn into such wimps whenever anybody else has to punish one of their own.


However, this is not a time for complaining. Some people might say his hanging might provoke more violence. This is also not the time for excuses. Let the violence come and let us prepare for it when it comes. This is the time for justice.
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The Year of the Nutcases

December 27th 2006 06:57
I suppose it is customary to review the year that has passed. So, well. Obviously the world is a far more dangerous place since a bunch of delusional people called Democrats won control of both the houses in the US. Hugo Chavez has made perhaps the world's longest campaign trip, what with everyone one from Putin to eskimos in Arctic recieving a visit from the President. Dunno how they helped him but he won the re-election. On the good news, Kofi Annan is out of the UN. It's an imperfect world and he didn't get a smackdown from anybody but instead got a Whitehouse farewell dinner. Still, we have to be thankful for the scraps of fortune that come our wat and he is out of the super bureaucracy of the world from where he could mess up all our lives.


It is also an year where tinpot dictators acuired new toys or are throwing tanturms for them. N.Korea has tested nuclear weapons and Iran may well be on its way to do so. Are people concerned? I ask you, are people concerned? Well, they are spending more time fantasising about doomsday scenarios of global warming. The acopalypse as yet has not come but well, who knows, better luck next year.

It is also the year when Britney Spears split with her husband, Mel Gibson showed the depth of his religious feelings and Donald Trump pardoned a tearful Miss USA. Quite an year.


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Who supports whom?

December 21st 2006 05:21
Blogging has been light this week and sorry for that. Catching up. It's interesting how the elections for 2008 are being played up this early. Actually each media outlet has had its favorite candidate since two years ago and one cannot but feel that the entire editorial policy of a news outlet seems to have been shaped by its choice of a candidate.

NYT and IHT are plugging for HIlary Clinton. Times initally went full steaming ahead for Al Gore. I think that Gorementum has lessened considerably and now they are rooting for Obama. In fact, Obama Husein Barama( can anyone with his name win an election?) is a made-up star by the media just like Angelina Jolie. Fortunately, like her he may not have any box-office pull. Since, both are anti-war candidates Time has only become more and more strident in its coverage since the mid-terms. They can afford to.

On the conservative side, John Mccain is loathed by all conservatives but supported by I think Washington Times, a publication which has some profile in concircles. But, he has a a huge supporter overseas in Times of London, if whatever it says has any impact. Giuliani has NYPost at his back, of course. But, it is poor Mitt Romney who doesn't look like he has the support of big media outlet and has been chased with a broomstick by all of them.

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Jews, Muslims and the Dilemmas

December 15th 2006 06:18
It is another paradox of our times that both Muslims and Jews are united on one front at least, that of supporting Democratic Party. I thought with all the highly anti-semtiic, anti -Israel rhetorc that was going around the Democratic Party, Jewish voters would at least think of themselves, if not of wider concerns. They did not. This brings us to Commentary magazine's article titled Jews, Muslims and the Democrats, which says that eventhough Jewish representation is at an all time high in the Congress, Jewish political influence might be dying down and that of the Musliam-Arabs might be increasing at the same time:

At any rate, and thanks in part to the stubbornly lopsided Jewish allegiance to the Democratic party, the influence wielded by the Jewish community has not been increasing but receding, even while the numerical representation of Jews in public office has grown. Not only is the Democratic party of today farther than ever from the Democratic party of Jewish memory, but the steadfast lack of interest shown by American Jews in the Republican party has robbed them of any possibility of being courted by either party as a potentially valuable swing vote. Worst of all is that this reality continues to be denied by Jewish spokesmen who most need to recognize and confront it.
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At last, Google finds a suitable icon

December 12th 2006 10:49
Today, Google has this icon on its homepage, made to coincide with Edvard Munch's anniversary. Take a look.


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Seriously divided GOP

December 12th 2006 08:27
It is official! There is a serious schism in the Republican Party. No, it's not just the New York Times gleefully pouncing upon even smallest signs of disgareement and blowing up it into a major rift. I think this time its serious. The publication of ISG report confirms it what we've been suspecting for a long time. There is a serious schism in the GOP.

This sort of thing is supposed to be Democratic Party's thing, isn't it? Weren't Democrats the fractious-ridden party famous for not being able to agree on anything? Wasn't GOP always so smug about projecting its unity? Weren't they supposed to be the patriotic party which put country above everyt other interest?So, what's happening? Why should defeat in a mere by-election bring down the whole stoic edifice


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Consign ISG to Ashheap of History

December 11th 2006 05:35
ISG is getting slammed for right and left and centre. Both National Review and Weekly Standard are piling up article upon article to debunk the idiots. That may not be surprising. But, what is surprising is that it is getting slammed from across the aisle as well. The only people who are supporting it are the people whose only mission in life is to spite Bush, no matter what the cost. Even Clinton's Director of Central Intelligence, that's right, somebody from the Clinton administration is slamming the report. James Woolsey and Sen. Kyle have both written an open letter to Pres. Bush.(hat tip via Pajamas Media). Good job. More such letters needed. First, John Mccain, Joe Lieberman, now Kyle. Looks like all the smart people are running away from this embarassment. If there was one report that had to consigned to "the ashheap of history", this one is it.


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Mr. President, you're not alone!

December 10th 2006 23:45
Thus writes Melanie Phillips: The big question now is whether Bush has the capacity to follow through, to rise above his warring advisers and follow his moral instincts — to emerge from being a weak chief executive to become a world leader and statesman. In the dying fall of his presidency, does he have the wherewithal to go for broke? On this lonely and frail figure the fate of the free world now depends.

Mark Steyn notes that the President is isolated in his own administration. Atlas Shrugs says that somebody should tell Bush that he is not alone. I second that. Why don't bloggers around the world make that message, loud enough that President can hear


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The Dumbest Politcal Theater Ever

December 9th 2006 06:26
Messrs. James Baker III and Lee Hamilton have come up with their report and it disappoints even those did not expect anything from it. It is that vacuous. It was nine months in the making. The so-called Iraq Study Group had five Republicans and five Democrats, ostensibly to build consensus. It's all about building consensus, not about solving problems. Rudy Giuliani had the good sense to resign mid-way.

For months now, a steady media drumbeat of anticipation was built around it. The two men even posed for a men's celebrity magazine. James Baker even got an important endorsement... from Paris


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Bolton bolts and Chavez blues

December 4th 2006 20:39
Early morning roundup.

John Bolton is going to resign. That means that the last neocon is gone from the Bush administration, which is now full of the so-called realists. A big disappointment for anyone who had hoped to see the UN made relevant to the present day world


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A Round of Anniversaries And Elections

December 4th 2006 05:06
Last weekend saw the one-year anniversaries of diverse set of leaders.

First, David Cameron. He's been elected the leader of Tories an year ago and the Tories are not only fed up with him but positively alarmed the way he has transformed the party into a Labour-Lite. The same problem haunts the Republicans in the US as the frontrunners for 2008 all seem to be less conservative than is usual. They maybe more independent than the GOP but they are not at least Democrat lapdogs. While Cameron is nothing more than a Blair's doppelganger. A big thumbsdown


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Kofi Annan's parting shot

December 4th 2006 04:52
He's leaving office pretty soon as the most disgraceful head of UN in its history and that's saying something but Kofi Annan couldn't resist making one last parting shot. And make life miserable for the Bush administration as much as he can while he still can.

Talking to the press, he said Iraq was "worse" than civil war. He should know. After all, the man is responsible for the murder of 1 million Rwandese and god knows how many Congolese and not to mention the Sudanese. I guess, he has acquired a lot of expertise on such matters


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Gary Kasparov on the end game in Iraq

December 3rd 2006 10:46
Gary Kasparov, one of the all time greatest chess champions writes in Wall Street Journal. His piece is perhaps the best, the most rational piece written in support of troop withdrawal in Iraq. It's such a relieft to read somebody who is taking that psotion without being snide about America or George Bush. This is the part I liked best:

So what then, to do? "Mission accomplished" jokes aside, the original goals in Iraq--deposing Saddam Hussein and holding elections--have been achieved. Nation-building was never on the agenda, and it should not be added now. All the allied troops in the world aren't going to stop the Iraqi people from continuing their civil war if this is their choice. As long as Muslim leaders in Iraq and elsewhere are unwilling to confront their own radical elements, outsiders will be spectators in the line of fire


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Everybody knows the French are bad

December 2nd 2006 07:07
Remember when Bill Clinton bombed an isolated Somalian factory saying that it was manufacturing chemical weapons? Remember the brouhaha that resulted from the strike? Every newspapers in the world saw it fit to print it on the front page.

Here's now newsreport that France launched an airstrikes in Central African Republic and except for one isolated news outlet reporting it, nobody seems to bother


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Some thoughts on the dollar slide

December 1st 2006 08:02
Dollar is sliding again.
Can we pin this on the Democrats vicotry in mid-terms? After all, the US stock market was riding at historic highs before they won. Now that the Dems are in and their full anti-trade agends is becoming visible, they are causing a lot of doubt about American performance.

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