... a futile struggle The movies have played their part in giving appeasement a bad name. Conflict, not surrender, is the essence of drama. Hence, ... Le Chagrin et la Pitié. Yet in the animal kingdom, appeasement is a routine behavioural strategy. Our fellow creatures find ... tyranny overthrown. This makes it easy to vilify those who backed appeasement at the time. It's even easier for film-makers, ...

NYTimes | I continued to be conflicted — believing that when it comes to salutes (and one or two other matters), presidents deserved to be cut some slack, but also feeling a little uneasy about the whole thing. My ambivalence came to an end last week, when I saw a videotape of the president’s midnight trip to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where he had participated, very early that ...

Is this thing on? OK, then check out this quote from the great John Howard, former Australian Prime Minister: "If you imagine that you can buy immunity from fanatics by curling yourself in a ball, apologising for the world - to the world - for who you are and what you stand for and what you believe in, not only is that morally bankrupt, but it’s also ineffective. Because fanatics despise ...

Folks sometimes the arrogance of President Obama takes my breath away, it seems that nothing gets beyond that arrogance, the good people of Tehran are fighting for their Democratic Rights and what does the Obama Administration say, read this and tell me it does not sound like Neville Chamberlain, " I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and ...

These have only happened due to sheer political blackmail and so, the only way of undoing this shoddy system is by electing the Chief minister by a secret and compulsory vote of all MLAs, on nominations signed by at least one-third MLAs… More on>> Politics in Haryana Related Tag>> Haryana News, Politics in India

(Spain) Eleven Islamist extremists have gone on trial in Spain, charged with involvement in a plot to stage suicide attacks on the Barcelona metro. They have been charged with belonging to a terrorist organisation, possessing explosive substances and falsifying official documents. The irony here is that after Spain pulled her troops out of Iraq, gave amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, ...