Syncronised swimming in Trafalgar Square
or
swim the entire length of the river Thames
Posts archive for: 28 July, 2006
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Things that can be done when it's hot in London
@ 28/07/2006 – 16:31:08
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Always a crisis
@ 28/07/2006 – 14:50:21
One major difference this time is that Israel enjoys an indulgence from Washington far beyond anything previous, essentially giving it a free hand.
While previous administrations, despite commitment to the strategic alliance with Israel, kept at least some distance in earlier crises, the US under George W Bush immediately adopted Israel's primary war aim.
There could be no ceasefire until the "root problem - Hezbollah is addressed". Israel would not be under pressure to halt until Hezbollah had been defeated and destroyed.
The agony of Lebanon was, like the carnage in Iraq, part of the birth pains of the New Middle East for the neo-conservative ideologues in Washington.
This was Israel's contribution to the war on terror, dealing a blow to a proxy offspring of those "axis of evil" nations, Syria and Iran.
I don't see anything good coming out of this. I went to look for a "simulation" that was created at the time of the invasion of Iraq, again its message is so true and very relevant.
