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I was preparing to write a blistering post that would sink the electoral fortunes of Paul Martin for once and for all, and now I’ve forgotten what I meant to say.

For I have been tagged by Bruce at Autonomous Source with this latest stupid blóg meme to list the five strangest things about myself. I take exception to the premise: I have been told over and over, by some very famous and well-respected people, that I AM NOT WEIRD.

The ouija board DOES NOT lie, and I have that on the authority of no less than Winston Churchill.

In fact, this entire topic made me so angry that I pounded the table with enough violence to topple my human-skull chalice (“Yorick”), filled with the finest of jug-wines, which I buy in quantity, as I do tend to tip Yorick over from time to time. (One of these days I’m really going to have to build a stem and base for it.)

So, nope. I can’t see where I’m out of the mainstream at all. OK, I like George W. Bush, which in Canada is tantamount to heresy; I prefer to think of it as iconoclasm. That’s me—the rebel, the outsider, the visionary.

Now it is my turn to tag five other blóggers, but I can’t think of five offhand who actually read this site. So I will call the curse down upon Andrew Ian Dodge of Dodgeblogium. Now this guy is weird. Sir Winnie told me so himself.

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Amir Taheri on ‘Sharonism’

January 11th, 2006 | Category: Politics

For a war to be won it is not enough for one side to claim victory, although that is essential. It is also necessary for one side to admit defeat. The problem in the case of the Arab-Israeli wars, however, was that the side that had won every time was not allowed to claim victory while the side that had lost was prevented from admitting defeat.

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In the Israeli-Arab case this had not been done because each time the UN had intervened to put the victor and the vanquished on an equal basis and lock them into a problematic situation in the name of a mythical quest for an impossible peace.

In this novel situation, bizarre new concepts were invented to prevent the normal mechanisms of war and peace from functioning. These include such concepts as land for peace and peace with justice.

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