Comments on Born at the Crest of the Empire: How do they look in the mirror?

That's a good point too, Kvatch. I'm not really ...

2006-01-22T22:07:00.000-06:00

That's a good point too, Kvatch. I'm not really an expert on the politics of Palestine, but the two heads of Hamas always confuses me. They act as both a fighting force, and alos run free schools and health care for the poor. I just can't get a feel for it.

It is cyclical, like you say, the revolutionaries take over, amass power, and become the fat plutocrats that they were fighting against in the first place.

Power corrupts, I guess.

Mike

It's a frickin' payoff, and the irony is that Hama...

2006-01-22T20:55:00.000-06:00

It's a frickin' payoff, and the irony is that Hamas is just doing what Fatah started doing 30 years ago in a process that culminated with Fatah morphing into the Palestinian Authority.

Radicals become the establishment despite the meddling of superpowers.

That's pretty good, allan.Mike

2006-01-22T20:41:00.000-06:00

That's pretty good, allan.

Mike

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of mon...

2006-01-22T19:25:00.000-06:00

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." - Doug Casey