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Your previous comment wasn't just about foreign policy though, was it? You obviously don't know much about neocon thought (it's not just about bombing a-rabs, you know!). Alternatively, you don't know much about traditional left/right ideology.

They're not exactly in abundence.

Matthew, surely you realise that this isn't the kind of thing you can just whip out a nice neat piece of evidence for?! However, the fact that neocon ideas are in fact much closer to traditional leftwing thought than tradidtional conservatism should point you in the right direction. And this...

What the mutual embrace of Hitchens and the neocons tells us is that Hitchens’s assessment of neoconservatism is essentially correct: the regnant force in American conservatism today is warmed-over Trotskyism, which views America merely as the embodiment of the ideology of global revolution. I...

Indeed.

Indeed, I hope the police find the time to do an "investigation" on that guy one of these days... ;)

Come on, the Stones were a shamless bunch of rip-off merchants! The average standard of UK music has never been that high, but when we do get it right we tend to shit on the yanks. That doesn't happen very often though.

Out of retirement... OK, a good one is the case of former Guardian journalist Saad al-Fagih, who wrote various comment pieces and news stories on Muslims in Britain and war on terror, before being unmasked as a genuine fundamentalist. Various heads rolled at the Graun for that little oversight...

I based my comments on the failures of the Geneva convention. It's a joke, as is any attempt to devise and implement a set of overarching international laws. Yes, I agree with most of that, especially with how quick-draw American foreign policy seems to be. But not the bit about the media not...

No, but it means you should consider how lucky you are before you start whinging. Good try, now try thinking of something of your own Matt. Considering how comical your position is, you Marxists don't have much of a sense of humour.

To be fair, it doesn't exist. But it might in the future.

The whole concept of international law is ridiculous. Whose values is it built upon? Who enforces it? How can it be enforced evenly? Having laws that apply internationally assumes that conditions can be applied across continents, which is clearly not always the case. In any case, the notion...

Yawn to "ooh the police are harrassing us." What a cliche. At least they're not as bad as the police in France/USA/Russia/Spain/Italy/China/AnywhereinAfrica/India/AnywhereinSouthAmerica etc etc... Please, give me a stick to beat myself with.

The guy had a French accent for fuck's sake. How dodgy do you want?

Yeh they haven't looked too clever with that one. Not quite sure why you have a problem with them taking dodgy looking rucksack-carriers off the street though. Presumerably you don't live in London. Ian Blair has to be the biggest wanker is public office. Personally instigating a police...

See Sleepa by Scuba.

It's 26 feet long for fucks sake!

There should be more bones lyrics. That would be quality.

LOL! I'm feeling your analysis man. Can't quite be arsed to pitch in with any serious posts of my own, so I'm keeping to sweeping generalisations...

I find when attempting to analyse foreign affairs, there is generally a barrier that people have differing degrees of difficulty passing. It's got two parts to it really: the first being that foreign affairs, much like domestic politics in democracies, are defined by various interest groups (in...