Blood debt

Footnotes are fleshed out after the “continue reading” link.
“You break it, you buy it.” – crude maxim explaining responsibility in simple terms.
It also explains my sentiments towards the war in Iraq. It was a war prosecuted for the wrong reasons and it can’t be said that the dead would speak well of the outcome, as [...]

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“Our sonofabitch”

Russia invades small nation/”breakaway republic” in the “near abroad” Strong condemnation from US. Dismemberment of country bit by bit leads to leader becoming more authoritarian, smarting from lackluster Western response, undermining self until nation becomes led by marionette, daubed in red, white and blue of its northern neighbor. Just reading the tea leaves I swear, [...]

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Discontinued

The labels that hang just below the price tags on the shelves of the store say much about the three things that both Islamic fundamentalists and some of the cutting edge ideologues of the West fear. Islamic fundamentalism, indeed all religious fundamentalism (Christians in America haven’t yet begun to attack the temples of their targets, [...]

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