/commentary/index.htm Politics / Commentary zh-cn Copyright 2007 <a href='http://www.t-xu.com' target='_blank'>T-XU.com</a> - All Rights Reserved Worldwide. admin@youremail.com /commentary/the-inertia-of-power-aid150761.htm I hate it when Saddam Hussein gets proved to be right ...<br /> <br /> Buried in all his pre-invasion bluster was a promise that Iraqis would give the Americans 'another Viet Nam' if they tried to occupy the country. To many, this sounded like just 2007-07-27 Commentary J Square Humboldt T-XU Articles /commentary/wanted-and-it-had-better-be-alive--aid146040.htm Pakistan did the USA a favor recently ...<br /> <br /> All they got for it was a surprise rocket attack on their own soil.<br /> <br /> The situation is well-explained by London's Sunday Telegraph in its 29 Jan 06 edition:<br /> <br /> Pakistan 2007-07-27 Commentary J Square Humboldt T-XU Articles /commentary/mayor-wonka-and-the-new-orleans-chocolate-factory-aid128457.htm Whether God sent a judgment to New Orleans for its sinfulness is open to debate and perhaps there is no way of knowing that answer until the fat lady sings. What Ray Nagin said about New Orleans being ¡°a chocolate city¡± is a bit easier to weigh and i 2007-07-27 Commentary Rev. Michael Bresciani T-XU Articles /commentary/colors-of-the-american-flag-aid55908.htm I would imagine that even before the ink on the Declaration of Independence had dried, the sentences: "Are we gonna have a flag? We gotta have a flag! Britain has a flag!" were echoed by members of the Continental Congress. But then, a flag is import 2007-07-27 Commentary Regenia G. Butcher T-XU Articles /commentary/the-right-to-die-should-be-a-personal-matter-aid55740.htm I believe that the right to die should, in most cases, be a personal matter and not a political matter (I am talking for adults, not for children. Children, and I include teenagers in this, have not lived long enough and do not have enough life exper 2007-07-27 Commentary David G. Hallstrom, Sr. T-XU Articles /commentary/is-bush-ready-to-cut-and-run-in-iraq--aid38685.htm DETROIT -- We are living under a regime that has made war and torture highly profitable for a handful of scummy corporations and individuals. That's the way the Busheviks like doing business, keeping their dirtiest deeds in the hands of for-profit su 2007-07-23 Commentary Bill Gallagher T-XU Articles /commentary/knowledge-and-power-aid38697.htm "Knowledge is Power" goes the old German adage. But power, as any schoolboy knows, always has negative and positive sides to it. Information exhibits the same duality: properly provided, it is a positive power of unequalled strength. Improperly disse 2007-07-23 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/lincoln-group-republican-party-cia-spies-garfield-media-talking-head--aid38149.htm CONSPIRACY, intrigue, bribery and influence that may go clear up the ladder to Presdient George W(eak) Bush, Lincoln Group seems to have it all. A company that seems to have materialized from out of the mist snags major DOD contracts, including one f 2007-07-23 Commentary Pinto Bean T-XU Articles /commentary/bush-flirts-with-fascism-aid37944.htm DETROIT -- The regime has already produced so many ignominious legacies that historians in the near future will be able to feast on the task of measuring the damage from the wretched deeds the Busheviks have wrought. <br /> <br /> Certainly, the un 2007-07-23 Commentary Bill Gallagher T-XU Articles /commentary/add-me-to-the-list-mr-blair-aid37575.htm The terrorists are winning. Gradually but perceptibly, the USA and the United Kingdom (UK) are shedding their liberal democratic veneer, axing their traditions, reinterpreting their constitution (USA) and case law (UK) and, thus, becoming police stat 2007-07-23 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/murtha-right-bush-lies-aid37232.htm DETROIT -- Privately, President George W. Bush is having a political panic attack as he retreats to his cocoon, seeking comfort from his nannies. Babs, his mommy, wife Laura, Condi Rice and Karen Hughes serve as his ladies in waiting, assuring our co 2007-07-23 Commentary Bill Gallagher T-XU Articles /commentary/thanks-mankind--aid37246.htm I got to thinking today and i have to say, we rock! Humans I mean. For some reason, as I sat there, eating my McDonalds, I started thinking about technology. Man was I impressed! We have so much, and we dont think about it enough. I suppose it really 2007-07-23 Commentary Tyler T-XU Articles /commentary/france-_s-troubles-learning-from-us-aid37028.htm I know that there are some people who are celebrating France?¡¯s recent troubles with delicious glee. I guess I can understand how they feel, given France?¡¯s ongoing hypocrisy concerning the Iraq War [hmmm?¡­whose hand is in that oil-for-food cookie ja 2007-07-23 Commentary Matthew C. Keegan T-XU Articles /commentary/america-s-second-civil-war-aid36138.htm Reprinted with permission from:<br /> <br /> "The Second Civil War in the USA and its Aftermath" by Sam Vaknin (second, revised impression, 2029)<br /> <br /> Summary of Chapter 83<br /> <br /> "The polities of the nineteenth and twentieth cent 2007-07-23 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/let-us-learn-to-live-with-gorilla-terrorism-aid34953.htm Terror is a frame of mind, it based in psycho disorder syndrome, which makes one mind dissatisfied with its existence. In today?¡¯s global village concept era the terrorism is threating the idea of one world, where international non governmental and g 2007-07-23 Commentary Dinesh singh T-XU Articles /commentary/the-most-dangerous-place-in-the-world-_-right-here-in-america-aid34329.htm To answer this great scourge of death with the bible is to begin with the premise that everyone believes that the bible has something to say about it and that it is authoritative. For those who have put the bible on the shelf with literature, simple 2007-07-18 Commentary Rev. Michael Bresciani T-XU Articles /commentary/containing-the-united-states-aid34094.htm European intellectuals yearned for the mutually exclusive: an America contained and a regime-changed Iraq. The Chinese are more pragmatic - though, bound by what is left of their Marxism, they still ascribe American behavior to the irreconcilable con 2007-07-18 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/the-madman-and-the-iraqi-war-aid34095.htm It is the war of the sated against the famished, the obese against the emaciated, the affluent against the impoverished, the democracies against tyranny, perhaps Christianity against Islam and definitely the West against the Orient. It is the ultimat 2007-07-18 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/only-the-delusioned-now-support-bush-aid33912.htm DETROIT -- The last semblance of broad public support for President George W. Bush is the diminishing number of Americans who continue to believe his administration does a good job with national security. "Bush makes me feel safer," they foolishly pr 2007-07-18 Commentary Bill Gallagher T-XU Articles /commentary/a-dialog-about-anti-semitism-and-the-fate-of-the-state-of-israel-aid33716.htm Rabid anti-Semitism, coupled with inane and outlandish conspiracy theories of world dominion, is easy to counter and dispel. It is the more "reasoned", subtle, and stealthy variety that it pernicious. "No smoke without fire," - say people - "there mu 2007-07-18 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/contenders-for-iraq-and-the-potential-for-civil-war-aid33411.htm Iraq stands at the junction of three different and competing cultures for the control of the country. Kurds, Shia and Sunni Arabs all want to control their own affairs and that of the Iraqi state. Since each of them have their own distinct identity a 2007-07-18 Commentary Murad Ali T-XU Articles /commentary/no-nobel-prize-for-war-president-aid32774.htm DETROIT -- George W. Bush doesn't like to play hurt but he has no choice. Every week now, he's getting clobbered. His Nixonian administration can only struggle to stop the bleeding, bandage the wounds and pray that the twin enemies of truth and time 2007-07-18 Commentary Bill Gallagher T-XU Articles /commentary/bush-s-holy-cronies-have-feet-of-clay-aid32256.htm DETROIT -- Deception, arrogance, greed, hubris, corruption, incompetence and isolation -- the seven deadly sins of political life -- snared President George W. Bush and his cronies long ago. That's how they gained and maintain power. <br /> <br /> 2007-07-18 Commentary Bill Gallagher T-XU Articles /commentary/real-campaign-finance-reform-aid32035.htm In the US we should be pretty aware that the outcome of our elections are largely influenced by how much money each candidate can raise. Whoever can raise the most money has the most chance of swaying the uninformed 'swing' voter, or hiring the best 2007-07-18 Commentary Derek Gulbranson T-XU Articles /commentary/nitwit-nation-is-america-too-dumb-for-democracy--aid31596.htm Most Americans are enthusiastic supporters of their own civic rights, but few bother to meet any would-be democrat's (or any would-be republican's, if you prefer) number-one responsibility: that of keeping oneself sufficiently literate and well infor 2007-07-18 Commentary Dan Nerhaugen T-XU Articles /commentary/the-clash-of-islam-and-liberalism-aid31406.htm Islam is not merely a religion. It is also - and perhaps, foremost - a state ideology. It is all-pervasive and missionary. It permeates every aspect of social cooperation and culture. It is an organizing principle, a narrative, a philosophy, a value 2007-07-10 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/the-semi-failed-state-aid31206.htm The US State Department's designation of "rogue state" periodically falls in and out of favor. It is used to refer to countries hostile to the United States, with authoritarian, brutal, and venal regimes, and a predilection to ignore international la 2007-07-10 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/america-beware-hillary-clinton-may-run-for-president-aid28432.htm America is the greatest country in the world. Our citizens are caring, generous, trusting and forgiving. Those are some of the traits that make our country so great and so strong. Those traits can also be some of our biggest weaknesses. We are always 2007-07-10 Commentary David G. Hallstrom, Sr. T-XU Articles /commentary/democrats-versus-republicans-the-battle-is-almost-over-aid27468.htm The following are the opinions of the author and although I believe them to be true I am not stating them as anything other than my opinions. <br /> <br /> Ever since the time of Abe Lincoln, Democrats and Republicans have been fighting for control 2007-07-10 Commentary David G. Hallstrom, Sr. T-XU Articles /commentary/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes--aid27190.htm Izetbegovic, the late nominal president of the nominal Bosnian state, the darling of the gullible western media, denied that he and his cronies and his cronies' cronies stole 40% of all civilian aid targeted at Bosnia - a minor matter of 1 billion US 2007-07-10 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/the-honorary-academic-aid27191.htm Mira Markovic is an "Honorary Academic" of the Russian Academy of Science. It cost a lot of money to obtain this title and the Serb multi-billionnaire Karic was only too glad to cough it up. Whatever else you say about Balkan cronies, they rarely bit 2007-07-10 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/the-caveman-and-the-alien-aid27192.htm When Chancellor Kohl's party and Edith Cresson are suspected of gross corruption - these are labelled "aberrations" in an otherwise honest West. When NASA in collaboration with its UK counterpart blow a 130 million US dollars spacecraft to smithereen 2007-07-10 Commentary Sam Vaknin T-XU Articles /commentary/no-matter-what-america-does-the-rest-of-the-world-will-never-like-us-aid26482.htm Americans need to get used to the idea that, no matter what The United States Of America does, the rest of the world will never like us. <br /> <br /> Ours is a unique society. We are made up of people from almost every other nationality in the wor 2007-07-10 Commentary David G. Hallstrom, Sr. T-XU Articles /commentary/true-american-patriot-aid26423.htm A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT SPEAKS OUT<br /> By Bill Gallagher<br /> It ain't fair, John Sinclair <br /> In the stir for breathing air. <br /> Won't you care for John Sinclair <br /> In the stir for breathing air? <br /> -- John Lennon, 1971. <br / 2007-07-10 Commentary Bill Gallagher T-XU Articles /commentary/politics-the-corruption-curve-aid26185.htm "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." (Lord Acton)<br /> <br /> We all like to think of ourselves as kind, honest, and benevolent. In our hearts, we are convinced that should we ever 2007-07-10 Commentary Virginia Bola, PsyD T-XU Articles