Thursday, September 25, 2014

25/9/2014: "We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars": ISIS and Western Policy


For the Laughs... or dead serious:


via @bill_easterly

Throw in Russia into the above equation and the 'mud' gets epic. Turgenev once said that "We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars"... it is clearly a permanent cloud cover in the US / Western politics... Or as Wislawa Szimborska wrote: "In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."

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2 comments:

  1. Fintan DunneSeptember 26, 2014

    The 8 Proxy Wars Going On in Syria Right Now
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/asad-abukhalil/syria-proxy-wars_b_5874488.html

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  2. PeteSeptember 26, 2014

    Middle East Friendship Chart.
    This is genius:

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/07/17/the_middle_east_friendship_chart.html

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