>>There aren't many people who make me say "I couldn't have said it better myself" This guy is always one of them:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002262.html>>
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>>"And then there is Darfur, a perennial for which myriad diplomats and foreign policy experts have devoted uncountable hours at the finest five-star hotels to deplore the genocide and urgently urge relief. "
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>Very well said. too bad the people who whine the loudest about the atrocities are the ones who will be first to condemn the US if we took action to stop them.
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>As far as Betancourt's rescue, I'm wondering if the real story will come out.
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>Brilliant rescue sounds great.
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>The idea that terrorists with decades of experience would drop their hostages off at a helicopter so a relief agency could give them a ride to another terrorist camp a hundred miles away is absurd. I guess that's a good cover story for a ransom being paid though.
Or somebody sending the right rebel leader a picture of his mother standing on the edge of a tall building in Bogata ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
