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Buh-Bye Zarqawi

8th June 2006, 06:00 am

So the Zarqman is dead – as predicted by this StrategyPage article (I just subscribed to them and I must say that this publication is worth every penny).
Z-man's head
Some comments:

1. BBC on NPR called this a “propaganda victory” for the Bush Administration.
2. It will be interesting to see who celebrates his death and who doesn’t.
So far the Bush admin, Blair, Iraqi PM, Shi’a and al-Qaeda are all happy that he’s dead. NPR and the BBC appear more subdued so far.
3. Nick Berg’s father has said that he is saddened by his son’s executioner’s death, saying that it just increases al-Qaeda’s anti-American sentiment. He’s a pacifist running on the Green Party ticket for Congress in Delaware.

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China hasn’t forgotten

4th June 2006, 06:25 pm

No matter how much the regime would like us to believe, China has not forgotten the slaughter of its citizens in its capital’s streets.

That’s the thing about a 5000 year old society like China. It has so much history that remembering it becomes a full time job. Consider that the Communists have been in power for just over 50 years. That’s just over 1% of its recorded history. Most of China’s dynasties have lasted much longer than that.

During that time China has suffered numerous invasions, massacres, and pillaging – but it and its people have survived. It will survive Communism just as it survived the Mongols, and it will handle its tyrants on its own.

China hasn’t forgotten Tiananmen Square.

I haven’t either.

Photo courtesy Ethan Zuckerman

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