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Mandela's statements were pathetically stupid, not to mention unseemly and malicious, where not merely narrow and misleading. His statement that the US is more willing to by-pass the UN because the General Secretary is black was just the most obviously and revealingly ridiculous and ignorant of...

... I like the concept and look of it, and may even give it a try "live" next week, but I can see room for three improvements right off the top: 1) Should have an "always on top" option to make it easier to run alongside/over analysis software; 2) Should be easier to switch between...

Because the terrorists share your perception that US foreign policy is "depraved," that the US is "justifiably" the most "despised" nation on Earth, and that, in short, the US is the supreme danger, oppressor, and moral evil - the "Great Satan" as they say - it is not difficult for them to take...

"Imperialistic" is a buzzword. The way that you frame the issue is paradoxical: You seem to be saying that if the US does act, then it will show itself to be imperialistic, and will therefore be unable to act ("prevent[-ed]... from stopping" etc.). [b] And here you demonstrate a...

For those who found the first Friedman piece posted here of interest: Thinking About Iraq (II) By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In my column on Wednesday I laid out why I believe that liberals underestimate how ousting Saddam Hussein could help spur positive political change in the Arab world...

In your opinion... In the opinion of many, the US would have no "moral standing" even with a UN mandate - which enemies of the US or US policy would no doubt ascribe to US manipulation and pressure. In the opinion of many others, the US and the rest of the international community already...

Another possibility is that I'm protecting a source who may not deserve protecting, and attempting belatedly to comply with a request sheerly out of my good nature and perhaps unjustified generosity. In my original post, my language made clear that I could not be completely sure of the...

My superduper-secret deep source, hereinafter referred to as "Informant X," has made it known to me, possibly through certain intermediaries, that he or she would have preferred that I had never said anything on the subject at all. Apparently, either the original message I received was...

QUOTE]Quote from max401: One thing is certain, wild stopped posting on 11/23, since that time, posting to chit-chat political interest threads has dropped to a trickle. Gotta wonder how many aliases he was using. I know you mean "1/23": I don't think that wild was using aliases, at...

Of course, those useless UN inspectors still haven't turned up any pretzels, and I don't believe that Iraq made any mention of its widely-documented supply of pretzels in that fallacious 12,000 page compliance report.

Bush is in a lot better shape, but SH has got much more experience with violence up-close-and-personal. Is this a boxing match, "ultimate fighting" type thing, or a fight to the death? I'd give a Bush the advantage in the first, maybe in the second, but I'd probably have to give it to SH for...

Very interesting, article: Thanks. The question remains, however, now that ET's apparently entering a post-wild era, is who is going to emerge as the ET anti-war champion?

What is your evidence? If you do have evidence, whom specifically does it implicate? Powerful politicians or a just a few "rogues"? And if such evidence is already available, then why do we need a ground war in order to turn it up? I think the correlation between Schroeder's domestic and...

Don't see why you couldn't program two systems, one for each tradable, based on essentially the same underlying code (with certain terms reversed), with two multi-data charts, one where data(1) was tradable ABC, the other where data(2) was tradable XYZ. If the issue is getting backtesting...

Well, here's the text, then: From THE INDEPENDENT.CO.UK: Chirac's cynical pursuit of nationalistic interests is damaging European unity 24 January 2003 Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac should have a jolly time if and when they finally have their rescheduled meeting at Le Touquet in 11...

More details on EU rifts, with a less pro-US stance, here: http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=372176

Nice article... Reminds me to do some catching up on Safire...

Yes, times have certainly changed since the days that a conservative West German government faced down massive, militant protests and a parliamentary insurgency in order to back the Reagan Administration's deployment of Pershing short-range nuclear missiles. You may recall that, according to...

And who can forget going on a message board and daring to say something negative about a stock... everyone would attack - especially the resident pseudo-gurus with their valuation analyses explaining exactly why XLA should be trading at 500 a share - conservatively. People would be accused of...

Like he cares? I think he believes it hurts our feelings, so he wants to hit us over the head with it... I don't want to be in the position to miss some of wild's most ridiculous cut-and-pastes - and hate to think about them overly influencing the impressionable young'uns - but the option of...