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So Popular and So Spineless
nytimes.com — There was something filthy about Russia ’s and China’s vetoes of the American-led U.N. Security Council effort to impose sanctions on Robert Mugabe’s ruling clique in Zimbabwe.
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- bschoenbaechler, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Well sad Thomas! China and Russia are spineless if they can not stand up to the tragedies in Zimbabwe. This just confirms my suspicions that the UN is nothing more than a drinking club for the foreign elite.
- swrostmore, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2"Prior to the brutal radicalism of the last seven years America was viewed quite favorably throughout the world. Those who claimed that the U.S., in the post-World-War-II era, has been the root of most evil were in the distinct minority. That just is not how much of the world viewed the U.S. -- not until the era of George Bush and Tom Friedman's "Suck On This" neoconservative depravity."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/16/ ... - streamsowoven, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Real inflation: a loaf of bread now costs what 12 cars did 10 years ago.
- adasoto, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0George W is no better than the other dictators, the problem is that power is not well balanced, of course we don´t want Putin leading the world but when we have only one super power leading there is no way that wrong doing is not going to happen eventually
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