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...Canada is becoming more liberal, looking increasingly like a great chunk of Western Europe stuck on top of the U.S. The war in Iraq has been deeply unpopular in Canada, and Canadians are adopting or contemplating liberal policies, like gay marriage and the decriminalization of marijuana, with scarcely a bleat of controversy...
...Canada is becoming more liberal, looking increasingly like a great chunk of Western Europe stuck on top of the U.S. The war in Iraq has been deeply unpopular in Canada, and Canadians are adopting or contemplating liberal policies, like gay marriage and the decriminalization of marijuana, with scarcely a bleat of controversy...
...lambs are wedged into a conveyer belt that carries them from the holding pen to the butcher. Some bleat insistently but most are quiet, bewildered. The machine stops for a moment and Mohammad Hussain, a Muslim cleric who sees to it that all slaughtering at Birmingham's Pak Mecca Meats abattoir is in keeping with religious law, strokes a lamb's head as he waits. The lamb's eyes close in contentment for a moment, until the conveyer whirs back into action. Hussain intones the Muslim blessing, and then with a single expert swipe nearly severs the animal's head...
...pointless for American generals to bleat about Iraqi irregulars not wearing uniforms or hiding behind civilians; this is what guerrillas have always done. ("The guerrilla must move among the people as a fish swims in the sea," said Mao.) Our leaders in uniform would serve us better if they explained that, increasingly, guerrilla wars are the ones we will have to fight...
...pointless for American generals to bleat about Iraqi irregulars not wearing uniforms or hiding behind civilians; this is what guerrillas have always done. ("The guerrilla must move among the people as a fish swims in the sea," said Mao.) Our leaders in uniform would serve us better if they explained that, increasingly, guerrilla wars are the ones we will have to fight...