Raising comparisons with Algeria or 1790’s Haiti shows the author is not arguing in good faith. (View Post)

Thomas Sowell made the point that we live, increasingly, in a world where people are held responsible for the actions of distant ancestors, but not for their own. (View Post)

In the case of Afghanistan, it's hard to see any amount of cash altering the situation. Too many of its male inhabitants like the way that the Taliban runs things. (View Post)

It's the sort of thing that might cause trouble for Labour down the line, in government, when they're losing by-elections, and suffering bad local council results, and have discontented bac… (View Post)

The Zionists were at least fairly rational, and a part of the modern world. Hamas want to take their part of the world back to the 7th century. (View Post)