They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Sunday, April 10, 2005

Gwynne Dyer: What the Pope really did

tehrantimes: It was the biggest photo-op in world history, and everybody who is anybody was there. Even the Protestant president of the United States and the Muslim clergyman who is president of the Islamic Republic of Iran felt obliged to show up for the Pope's funeral. But the media circus has already moved on to the next global event - two divorced British people in late middle age getting married in a registry office in Windsor - and there is one last opportunity to consider the life of Karol Wojtyla. Link