Colleagues Will Malign You If

The Word 'democracy' And The Name Of Assad Do Not Blend Very Well In Much Of Syria.

How Could Believers, People Who Regard Themselves As True Muslims, Get On Those Planes, Quoting The Words Of God Delivered Through The Prophet To Themselves, Knowing They Were Going To Kill Innocent People? They Saw The Other Passengers On The Plane. They Could See The Woman With Her Little Daughter. They Saw People Making Phone Calls To Their Wives Or Their Husbands. They Knew Who They Were Killing.

The Sheer Violence Of It, The Howl Of Air Raid Sirens And The Air-cutting Fall Of The Missiles Carried Its Own Political Message; Not Just To President Saddam But To The Rest Of The World. We Are The Superpower, Those Explosions Said Last Night. This Is How We Do Business.

We Live In A Society In The West, Where, When Men Do Violent Things, They Do Them Under Orders. They Are Soldiers Carrying Out Orders Or Mafia Men Carrying Out Killings For Bosses. But The Way Things Happen In The Middle East Is Not The Same As In The West.

Wasn't Saddam Destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi Liquidated? Didn't Milosevic Go To The Hague? All True. But Stalin Survived. Kim Jong-un Isn't Doing Too Badly, Either - Though That's Probably Because He Actually Has Nuclear Weapons, As Opposed To Iran Which Might Or Might Not Be Trying To Acquire Them And Thus Remains On The Israeli-american Target List.