Al Qaeda killing Christians in Iraq

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/2010111081934395118.html

is a strategy of defeating the West that is ruthlessly rational and chillingly effective.

Perhaps they will convert us all by the sword after all.

I hope that my antidote of Secular Koranism will be considered worthy of discussion when things get worse. 

Al Qaeda want Linda Norgrove alive, the US and UK government want her dead if they can't rescue her

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/844063-us-general-s-promise-over-linda-norgrove-kidnap-death

Imagine the horror of having a long drawn out negotiations and then having to watch Al Qaeda cut off her head on YouTube.  No, Al Qaeda wanted her alive.  It would suit the US and UK governments to have her dead if they can't rescue her.

So, bleeding heart spinsters with nothing better to do with your lives, let this be a lesson to you: stay out of Afghanistan and other places where you are not welcome.  The Afghans are not grateful and your own government will hang you out to dry, ie kill you after an unsuccessful rescue attempt, rather than let you fall into the arms of the enemy. 

Learn so that you may live. 

If your life is so empty that playing the brave bleeding heart social worker in foreign countries is the only way you can get your kicks, you should maybe ask yourself why.

Two simple reasons why invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is Illegal

OFFICIAL:

Invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan ILLEGAL. Why? Because Article 5 of NATO Treaty implicitly refers to an "armed attack" by another sovereign state.

Al Qaeda is not another sovereign state.

Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

Anyone who still supports the invasions are supporters of illegal wars.

As long as we are now clear about this.

Politics reduced to a parlour game

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/14/peter-mandelson-calls-for-constraints

"Peter Mandelson calls for constraints but silent on cuts."

Cuts in Public Spending (Us) v Cuts in Public Services (Them)

Cuts in Public Spending v Cuts in Public Spending

The speech is a classic example of how to have your cake and eat it and should be used as a set text of how to elevate form over substance in GCSE Propaganda Studies in spotting distinctions without a difference.

It is now reported that Brown will actually use the word at the TUC Conference.

Wow. So this is what political debate has been reduced to: a parlour game of talking about cuts without talking about cuts.

Is that not one of those silly things you are asked to do in JUST A MINUTE?

I am so proud to be British, aren't you? I can now almost understand why some of us might be proud enough to want to join Al Qaeda.

In fact, there is some suggestion that Peter Mandelson has been "radicalised", for he suggested that Labour should fight the next general election as insurgents, not incumbents.

This suggests that he thinks the insurgents are going to be the winners, and the incumbents are going to be the losers.

A Freudian slip, but that was just one soundbite too far. Hoist by one's own petard comes to mind.