Balancing the human cost of doing nothing vs. the human cost of doing the wrong thing vs. the human cost of muddling through vs. the human cost of trial and error and large-scale social engineering vs. the human cost of historical imperatives vs. the human cost of all things made inevitable on account of someone’s ideological predilections, avarice, mismanagement and/or downright stupidity vs. the human cost of philosophizing at times of trouble when some action, almost any action, is terribly needed…
Category: Democracy & Human Rights
The Lame Lion’s Last Tango!
So far, the internal opposition in Syria is eerily quiet with regard to the arrest of Kamal Labwani and the President’s recent speech. The arrest remains un-condemned. The speech remains unchallenged. Continue reading “The Lame Lion’s Last Tango!”
Of Mehlis & Cialis!
Another nail has been hammered into the Syrian regime’s coffin. But, and while the regime seems poised to receive more doses of the Mehlis treatment, the opposition appears more desperately in need of a Cialis treatment if it is to rise up to the challenges ahead.
Unfortunately for the Syrian people, neither they nor their leaders are truly virile where it counts. Still, they both have plenty of fodder to spare for the looming battle of the impotents. Continue reading “Of Mehlis & Cialis!”
U.N. demands that Syria cooperate
The Assad brothers and Shawkat are “the trinity in charge of the country,” said Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syria expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 