Your Moment Of Zen

Fierce clashes between U.S.-backed Sunni militias and Iraqi police have prompted U.S. occupation troops in the country to interfere.

But the troops have opted to side with the police against the Sunni tribal militias they created, trained, financed and armed to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq.

[link]

I suppose I could follow that up with a George Santayana quote like “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” but I won’t … unless of course Jon Stewart doesn’t feature this in his daily moment of Zen tonight, in which case the quote stands.

Tech Tags:

Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis
Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, Rosemary’s Thoughts, Right Truth, Pirate’s Cove, Stuck On Stupid, The Pink Flamingo, A Newt One, Dumb Ox Daily News, Conservative Cat, Right Voices, Adeline and Hazel, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

This entry was posted by stageleft on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 and is filed under US Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Recommend this Post @ Progressive Bloggers
« Just In Time For An Election
We Pay For This Ya Know »

Comments are closed.

Causes & Sponsors

Recent Comments

  • Throbbin: Or you could offer to fly the good Reverend (and his family) over here as a show of appreciation.
  • Throbbin: I just worry the serious GOP candidates love having Palin out there making a fool of herself. Takes away...
  • JJ: “take the bull by the tail and look it firmly in the eye”. LOL! That’s great. But I suspect the bull...
  • stageleft: Good catch Throbbin – a mushy banana gone bad is a pretty good metaphor for the state of our...
  • stageleft: @jeremiah johnson: }}}shrug{{{ …. if you’re claiming and defending the “right” to...
  • balbulican: “you may not like how we do thing but thats our right.” You are correct. It is your right,...
  • jeremiah johnson: you may not like how we do thing but thats our right. we are Not canadians, we are our own nation....
  • Darcy: NIce!
  • James Bow: Yeah. And wasn’t it fun when she shook hands with the sweaty prime minister, and had the ink rub off.
  • Ti-Guy: ““take the bull by the tail and look it firmly in the eye”. Heh. That one nearly got past me. Thank...

Recent Trackbacks

Disclaimer: The writings, musing, comments, thoughts, and ideas, put forward within the stageleft.info domain belong solely to their individual authors who hold ultimate responsibility for them. While here be mindful of the words of Buddha: Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Designed by Gabfire slightly modified by stageleft