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New Delhi, India - In ten years, George Bush's legacy will be evident. In Iraq, give two years for the departure of American troops, three years for local power struggles, and five years for consolidation and recovery.
New Delhi, India - An old Sufi saying: When you are trapped in a vicious circle, draw a larger
circle around it...
New Delhi, India - "Muslims want to revive the Caliphate," I hear pundits say. The idea is just preposterous. The Caliphate is a pre-nation state concept, relevant only to the Age of Empire. The Caliphate was defeated by the British in 1918. It was buried by the Turks in 1924.
New Delhi, India - North Korea agreed to 6-party talks because China and Korea, not America.
New Delhi, India - "Most dangerous" is an interesting phrase, because it's first qualified by a question: "Most dangerous" to whom? North Korea is not a direct danger to any nuclear power: It is friendly with China and Russia; it is, or was, a partner of Pakistan; it is indifferent to India and Israel; and it has no proven capacity to reach France or Britain. It is certainly dangerous to America, however, if not as a nuclear power then because of its ability to play havoc with two peaceful, stable economic powerhouses in its neighborhood, South Korea and Japan. That certainly does constitute a threat to world peace.
New Delhi, India - The generation that gave the world free love and the pill in the 1960s and fed its collapsing libido with Viagra thirty years later has a curious hangover: Intrusive morality.
New Delhi, India - An intriguing part of the conversation between the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus and "an educated Persian" now made world-famous by Pope Benedict XVI, is that the Persian seems to have no name. There is no mention of it in the speech made by the Holy Father during his "Apostolic Journey" to the University of Regensburg on 9/12.
New Delhi, India - Karzai's sincere effort to be something more than the mayor of Kabul has been a quiet joke ever since he took office. The President of Afghanistan invites sympathy rather than censure. He did not become president because he had either a mass base or an army. He was placed in office by Bush who then forgot to add in the power.
New Delhi, India - The most important word in the question is 'three', for 9/11 occurred five years ago. Muslims of faith are sensitive to the difference between justice and injustice, and they view the occupation of Iraq, with its chorus of lies and daily scenes of death, as the ultimate injustice of our times.
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