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Greenies hate good news and other stories.
But first-An Englishman, David McCutchion("He was a friend of Satyajit Ray and all sorts of interesting people in Calcutta who never get the attention in the West that all those anti-Western islamisant arundhati-roys manage to get."),who "lived through the war made by West Pakistan (now Pakistan) on East Pakistan" described the behavior of Pakistan-??We are raising funds [for those in what was then East Pakistan being murdered by the army of West Pakistan and its local, fervently Muslim East Pakistani [...]
WHAT'S IN YOUR WEATHER FORECAST?
Weather calamities seem to have an eye for Asia this summer although many other parts of the world are far from immune to ?Mother?s? growing chaos. In case you do not follow the weather news, here are some of the latest headlines:?Romania on Flood Alert??South Asia monsoon toll passes 2,000.??At least 13 dead in Pakistan rains.??Rivers above alert levels as rain subsides over central Europe.??Storms batter Ohio.??Extreme floods hit 500 million people a year.??Floods, landslides kill 35 in China.??Floods [...]
Big sky country
Great wide openLeh, Ladakh (India)My lower back is really, really sore from sitting watching the Dalai Lama all day, my eyes are burning from the arid dusty air and I am too tired to think of a third thing to round out this paragraph. Oh yeah! My nose is full of crusty stuff.His Holiness is teaching the "Lam Rim" scripture. Because I am sitting in the press section, have yet to hear the English translation. Maybe I will skip over to the "Foreigners" section tomorrowIt is wild to see the Dalai Lama in a [...]
One Iraq Option Only: Victory
By Michael JohnsDisturbingly, there is an emerging consensus among the Democrat-led United States Congressional leadership that the war in Iraq is "lost." The most recent example that this thesis has worked its way into official party talking points was offered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat, who pointedly stated last month that "...this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything...."Setting the obvious contrarian politics aside, could there be a more defeatist, [...]