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Well, I applaud your courage for opening up this can of **** as, I presume, a Turkish American. Your reasoning is not illogical. I have looked into this to some extent (if only in the capacity of a 2-bit "Google scholar" - to this I will readily concede). As much as I don't personally take to...

I wish I could say you are a full of c**p. But sadly you are not. I can understand Jewish Zionism to a considerable extent - even sympathize with the Zionist objective of a fair partition based on the 1967 border and a shared Jerusalem - with necessary security. But for the life of me I...

A vitriolic "Hagee-ist" Mr. TruthSeeker is definitely not. A diligent pupil of Brzezinski he may yet be. Nothing wrong with that per se I suppose.

Neither do you want Xinjiang to be the next Chechnya (in more ways than one it's already there). Serbian Kosovo-stan, Russian Dagestan, Chinse Uyghuristan, and even Turkish Kurdistan are clearly not all the same. But there are some common lessons that are fair targets for discussion...

Apart from the obvious wild, glaring falsehood, how the h*ll did you go from some harmless rumor-mongering on airplanes to spewing this kinda diatribe? This is wholly uncalled for and utterly beneath you! I am here very sporadically these days ... but ever since you attached that insignia of...

Hear hear Pasban. I realize that Iran has a rather intricate, more-balanced-than-given-credit-for power structure despite the labeling habits of Western press. Look at India - I am not exactly up on Indian politics. But whether it was BJP or Congress, the overall foreign policy thrust would...

Thanks Ban. You have no idea how close "Anx" is to my actual "going name" (anglicized of course) ... Okay Pasban my good man - you point is taken. Mehmood it is. You see, I was subconsciously rehabilitating him - "Najad" sounds just a tad more "cuddly" ... So three more years you say.

Is it true that after three more years, Najad can't run again - at least not for another four? I'd be personally grateful for this blessing. However, 3 years will take us past 2012 so it may not matter ... Just kidding ...

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D@rn right, Sino-Pak, darn right! However, let's not forget that a big chunk of this "propaganda" seemed to have been spun, blown up, and taken out of context (judging from a variety of sources) ... Now why would those with "ulterior motives" spin this? That's what you need to ponder...

No doubt her voice, rendition, and transliteration are all top notch!

No problem. Mandarin is extremely different from the Taiwanese dialect - probably as different as Mandarin is from Cantonese or from the dialect of Shanghai. Taiwanese dialect/language is similar to one of the Fujianese dialects ... I can't even tell you which one (possibly the dialect of...

This is from a Taiwanese TV show. Judging by the captions, it's clearly modelled after some sort of the "Idol" theme .. There was a single judge who spoke at the end. He essentially said that just by sheer "exotic-ness", such a performance by the idol would be favoured. But the idol missed...

Clearly there is quite a difference in rendition between the girl at the top and this Ms. Kiyani since the latter is obviously a pro ... The song she sang was popularized by a PRC heavyweight by the name of 韦唯 ("WeiWei" in Pinyin) around 1989. It's called...

Here is another take on "Barak's generous offer" ... "The annexations and security arrangements would divide the West Bank into three disconnected cantons. In exchange for taking fertile West Bank lands that happen to contain most of the region's scarce water aquifers, Israel offered to give up...

I'd like to flesh out the detail on his behalf. All information below came from gush-shalom.org. And this is what they have to say: "The West Bank and the Gaza Strip, captured in 1967, comprise 22% of pre-1948 Palestine. When the Palestinians signed the Oslo Agreement in 1993 they...

This is the place to think what's important. Religion per se is perhaps not. But faith and courage are. Is it "oil" that's at stake? Apparently Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have sweeter stuff that are more readily available. Iran's oil PRC can do without. But much, much more than oil is at...

That's when you remember Japan sits on 30 tons of fissionable plutonium ... Now I agree with your comment that Japan as a nation still has "undischarged" debt to China as a nation. Remembrance and vigilance are yours to possess. However, "vengeance" belongs to He - who repays ...

IMHO Omar, a nuclear Iran benefits no one. A nuclear "anyone" benefits no one per se - not even the "possessor" itself one may argue. My Good Book says "the meek shall inherit the earth" ... But a destabilized, or in the worst case scenario balkanized Iran is definitely disastrous for...

Ab! we can entertain. %!#@ we will have to ignore. First of all it should be clear that Iran was, is and never will be PRC's "ally". So the question of "abandoning" is a straw-man argument ... And the PRC shouldn't even want any "allies" in a conventional sense of the word wrt Iran, and...