In politics a week they say is a long time. George Bush II must be realising the truth of this cliche' during the course of the past week. First his handpicked nominee for the Supre Court had to withdraw herself from the race as even conservatives were beginning to sak questions about the quality of judicial discretion she possesses. The Democrats quick to draw blood, sought to acquire White House documents during the course of the confirmation hearings. This tactic or ploy is surely unconsti...

For one thing, the lesson learnt form Katrina were not lost. So when Hurricane Rita came slamming home the State and Local officials were prepared. The evacuation from Houston was fairly orderly and there was minimal loss of life as a consequence of Hurricane Rita. Of coursr, one can say that the different reactions to a similar natural disaster within two weeks of each other has to do with the different ethnic and racial profiles of the two states. In Louisianna the Federal Government wa...

The New from Bagdad is now getting murkier. The British Troops have raided a prison in Bagdad to rescue their own soldiers who had been imprisoned there. We are given to understand that thye Government in Bagadad, a Quisling Government, is operating directly under the control and command of the Coalition forces.Not a single decision is taken without the allied commenders being taken into confidence. This being the case how did the British soldiers get trapped by the Iraqi Security forces. Why...

The hurricane has left a devastated landscape in Mark Twain country. Now that the task of Relief has begun the political questions will now be raised. So close to 9/11 comparisons with that event will be inevitable. 9/11 gave President Bush the much needed oppotunity to look presidential and strike heroic poses in front of the World Trade Center ruins 4 years back. Katrina on the other hand revealed the incomprable incompetence of FEMA whose Director, a college roommate of Allbaugh,has been c...

Thr hurricane that swept through Louisianna has caused widespread destruction. Apart from the loss of life and the disruption in the routine lives of people the thyphoon has raised certain vital questions? Why did President Bush take five full days of dithering before sending the National Guards? Is it because the Iraq war has stretched the forces so thin thast there are no troops left for HOMELAND defence. People have a right to know the answers. The relief that was offered is too little and...

The lone woman, frail and vulnerable who has sacrificed her son in Bush's War in Iraq, camping outside the Presidential Ranch in Texas has caught the attention of the World. To see the most powerful man in the world cowering in fright in his ranch and sending two of his henchmen to meet with the lady is a sight that is just too good to be true. The reason why George Bush cannot see the mothe of Cassey Sheehan face to face is simple:he was highly economical with truth over the reasons for war ...

Admiral William Leahy, a great seaman and the first Admiral to have been the US joint Chiegfs of Staff, said : It is my opinion thast the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... Similarly General Dwight Eisenhower stated and I quote his own words: .. I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was , I t...

The great historian E J Hobsbawm has rightly caalled the twentieth century an "age of extremes". The German Holocaust during the course of the World War and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will for ever be seared in the momory of humankind as the most horrendous instances of mans' inhumanity ro fellow human beings. The moral evivalence between the two cannot be disputed because both were political decisions taken in order to achieve certain strategic and political goals during th...

The London Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard need to be congratulated for the quick detection of the identities of the 4 youth who pertetrated the horricfic act on 7/7/05. It took the US Administration a good two weeks before the names of the 21 9/11 killers were made public. The CCTV images caught pictures of the 4 British citizens entering King's Cross station at 7:50 in the morning. Less than an hour later all four of them were dead, making this the first insatace of suicide bombing in...

The bomb attaks in London took place when Londoners were going about their normal work. The tube trains were probably targetted because of their symbolic value and also provided an easy soft target. This was an attack on civillian non combatants and there fore needs to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. This kind of terrorist attackis not onlo bad for Islam but if it is done in the name of Islam damages the very cause for which it was done in the first place. LIke the Madrid Train...

The speech that the President of the USA, Geogrge Bush gave last night was billed as the speech of the prsidency.The expectation surrounding the speech was stupendous. At a time when the entire American nation is debaing the wisdom, legality and morality of the Bush-Blair War in Iraq, the President goes on air to declare to the world that he has no,policy. Three times during the course f his speech he said:We will stay the course in Iraq.This is Bushspeak for the status quo, that the majorit...

In a recent hearing before the House Committee on the Armed Forces, the Secretary for Defence turned away from answering a direct question from Senator Byrd:he only said that it is not possible to set a time table to end the War in Iraq. This is ofcourse pentagon speak for a long long indefinite haul. The political support for this long a war is just not there and the American people have already started asking whether the war was worth the candle. What the Secretary did not mention but came ...

All over the world people are reading alarming news coming out of Karbala, Iraq. Three days age, the Anglo-American Forces launched a combined attack on Karbala. TThe British, who unlike the Americans are somewhat sensitive to world public opinion,for the first time decided to use their air force against the civillian piopulation of Karbala. The US ariforce has trained bombs and cluster boms at civillian target in Falujjah and other places including Bagdad, but this is the first time since t...

Any one who seen Robert Redford in his role as the award winning journalist Bob Woodward in the film Watergate would know that the disguised muffled telephonic conversation taken in furtive snatches formed the basis of the expose of the wrong doings of Richard Nixon and hi men. The truth has finally come out: Mark Felt was the Depp Throat. In reality Felt has a crystal clear voice and hence the deep addition to his voice was an affectation to disguise himself. Nixon had passed him over for th...

Richard Nixon is unlikely to make it to a list of Great Amriican Presidents in a hurry. Thirty yersa after Watergate he is, unfortunatly, a rather lonely figure on the landscape of American memory. The Media destroyed him because the Liberal Pressdetested him. The bloched attempt at forced entry into the Democratic Headquarters was harldy an issue to drive an elected President from his office. His contribution to American foreign policy and economy are yet to be assessed. Anything good that...