{"id":9991,"date":"2007-10-14T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2007-10-14T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T17:49:12","slug":"when-good-things-happen-to-bad-people-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9991","title":{"rendered":"When Good Things Happen To Bad People [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordinarily, the Arab states in the region are quick to condemn any warlike act by Israel<\/a>, even measures as defensive as building a barrier against terrorists. Although many Arab states are unhappy these days with Syria’s budding alliance with Iran, Israel is still, to one degree or another, the enemy, and Syria is, at worst, a wayward brother. So why were the Arab states suddenly mum about this invasion of Syria’s sovereignty?<\/p>\n

Their reticence — and that of the rest of the international community, including the United States and Western Europe — suggests, I think, that even though most governments believed that this was indeed a blow against Syrian nuclear ambitions, none of them, frankly, were displeased to see it happen. The fact is that virtually every government in the world, regardless of its feelings about Israel, recognizes that a Syrian nuclear weapons program would make the Middle East and the world more dangerous. True, Israel already has such weapons, to the dismay of many others, especially its neighbors. But few see a Syrian nuclear arsenal as an antidote.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Faggot!” cried Humpty-Dumpty, gleenfully.<\/p>\n

Fisk reminds us why he’s famous<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After writing about the “ravers” who regularly turn up at lectures to claim that President Bush\/the CIA\/the Pentagon\/Mossad etc perpetrated the crimes against humanity of 11 September, I received a letter this week from Marion Irvine, who feared that members of her family run the risk of being just such “ravers” and “voices heard in the wilderness”. Far from it.<\/p>\n

For Mrs Irvine was writing about Lockerbie, and, like her, I believe there are many dark and sinister corners to this atrocity. I’m not at all certain that the CIA did not have a scam drugs heist on board and I am not at all sure that the diminutive Libyan agent Megrahi \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ultimately convicted on the evidence of the memory of a Maltese tailor \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 really arranged to plant the bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ready for Coast-to-Coast late night radio, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordinarily, the Arab states in the region are quick to condemn any warlike act by Israel, even measures as defensive as building a barrier against terrorists. Although many Arab states are unhappy these days with Syria’s budding alliance with Iran, Israel is still, to one degree or another, the enemy, and Syria is, at worst, a wayward brother. So why were the Arab states suddenly mum about this invasion of<\/p>\n

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