[annalex]

St George and the Dragon

[ppaul]

PROPHETIC WRITINGS.

Bookmarked & BUMPED.

[Carry_Okie]

This guy needs to read Baron von Clauswitz. He has no concept for the unintended consequences of pyrrhic victory, but then IMO, neither do you. I have no desire to kill a billion people, nor do I think it necessary, indeed, it is likely to be counterproductive.

I also think he misunderstands the ability of the government of Afghanistan to control bin Laden, because the situation is quite apparently the reverse; i.e., Bin Laden influences the Taleban more than they do him. Breeding hate can produce a fearful master.

[FReethesheeples]

Nice graphic on St. George at #2.

Raphael did (at least) two great st. George's:

One is at the Louvre; one at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

[secretagent]

Fifty years ago, Truman and Eisenhower ceded to the Arabs the West's property rights in oil—although that oil properly belonged to those in the West whose science and technology made its discovery and use possible.

I didn't know the "West" had any property rights in Arabian Oil, and how that happened. I need some referrence to the relevant treaties or contracts.