Tag Archives: Robert Fisk

Fisking Sullivan

By chris | Published: 21 November 2009
I have been watching the Palin obsession on Andrew Sullivan’s blog with a kind of fascinated horror. The blog was suspended to digest the almost content-free Palin book, but from the resumption notice it is clear that others have been raising their concerns. No doubt It is part of the theatre, one of the many reasons, [...]
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Our Great Passion for War

By chris | Published: 12 November 2009
The confluence of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the taking down of the Berlin Wall, Obama’s ongoing deliberations on whether or not to escalate in Afghanistan and Remembrance Day, with the passing of the last of the Great War veterans, has made for an unusually rich reflection on the value and/or futility or [...]
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