Any port in a storm


Juan Cole on last weekend's tsunami:
"It is very odd that nations cooperate to help each other in the face of natural disasters. But when they become angry over some minor dispute, they are perfectly happy to inflict far more damage on each other than mother nature ever did. Pakistan and India were seriously contemplating using nukes on each other as recently as 2002. Now Islamabad is sending rupees to Delhi, and Delhi is expressing gratitude.

"Now that nukes are becoming so common, humanity has to find a way to move into permanent cooperative and helping mode. War is gradually becoming unthinkable. The massive tsunami's toll has now risen to 150,000, but an Indo-Pak nuclear exchange would have killed 10 million."
Stranger still that the former governor of Texas responded so lamely to this disaster. It doesn't take a seasoned diplomat to recognized a prime opportunity like this to show the gentler, more progressive side of America.


Now I have that damn theme song playing in my head

What's on Law & Order tonight.

Hat tip to Menace.
2.1.05 01:06
 


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