Day: July 22, 2014

This is dignified

Posted in Uncategorized - July 22, 2014 - 0 Comment

My hat is off to Frans Timmermans, Netherlands Foreign Minister, who spoke at the UN Security Council today:

Note the emphasis on justice. The Dutch, who have held their own peacekeepers culpable for the murder of Bosnians evicted from the Dutchbat compound at Srebrenica, are serious about that.

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I surrender

Posted in Uncategorized - July 22, 2014 - 0 Comment

While I agree with those who see the world developing in positive directions over the longer term, I confess to feeling drained of all I have to say for the moment on Gaza, Ukraine as well as Iraq, Syria, Libya and several Balkans conflicts. Somehow this struck a chord:

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