Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Sorry

Our favoured side in Syria has apologised for having beheaded a man whom it thought was a Shi'ite.

He was not.
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5 comments:

  1. Daniel Nichols14 November 2013 at 03:38

    Oops.

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  2. Anonymous14 November 2013 at 14:57

    David Blunkett and Jack Straw are increasingly impressive in reflecting their constitutents concerns on mass immigration.

    Both of them should, of course, quit and join UKIP.

    Notice it's only ever ex-Ministers who are not in a position to do anything about it, who actually reflect the people's concerns.

    What a shambolic state our democracy is in.

    No wonder Peter Hitchens urges those young enough to emigrate.

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  3. David Lindsay15 November 2013 at 00:56

    Now I know that you are a spoof.

    To be fair, if you knew anything, then you would know that Straw and Blunkett both have far more valiant records of attrition against the EU than the people who have lately accrued to UKIP.

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  4. David Lindsay15 November 2013 at 00:57

    Oops up side your head, Daniel. Oops up side your head.

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  5. Anonymous16 November 2013 at 15:38

    Even a hard-hearted isolationist like me had to feel a stirring of pity for the Tamils who mobbed Cameron on his recent visit to that hell-hole.

    The left-wing idealist notion of idealistic interventions in other people's countries born in the Boer War and World War One (as so brilliantly documented in Murray Rothbard's "Betrayal of the American Right") has taken hold to such a degree, that it has created in all suffering peoples, an expectation that we must intervene to help them, and an angry resentment whenever and wherever we fail to meet those expectations.

    We've opened a Pandora's Box now and cannot easily close it.

    For all that the plight of the Tamils is terrible (like that of the Iraqi Kurds under Saddam and the Palestinians under Israel) if we respect national sovereignty and Small Government, then there is little that foreign states can do about it.

    What would once have been expected of non-state actors (Christian charities, Amnesty International and the like) is now expected of states who, unlike charities and NGO's, are supposed to put their own citizens first and respect national borders.

    It's hard to see how this can ever end-since there is no shortage of suffering and oppressed peoples around the world.

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