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...hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights for two weeks or longer, with no flights at all during the evil winter...
...defeat fascist regimes and rebuild nations ravaged by them? Orwell was not a pacifist. He had lived long enough among the poor in Britain and France to understand the inequities of the liberal democracies, but he had a splendid contempt for those unwilling to defend them against a greater evil. If he believed that rogue states or radical Islamic terrorists had the means and motive to threaten Western lives and liberties, he would surely have supported the use of armed force to eradicate the danger...
...great book - as a novelist, Orwell had less depth than his near contemporaries, Graham Greene and Anthony Powell - but it is bleakly unsettling, as page after page of racism and cruelty leaves you feeling in need of a shower. Yet Orwell never thought that the evil of imperialism resided solely in its exploitation of "natives." He was just as interested in its corrosive effect on those who claimed to bring civilization to the unlettered heathen. Imperialism, says a British timber merchant in Burmese Days, speaking to an Indian doctor who admires Western modernity, "corrupts us in ways...
...President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were so devious as to manipulate the intelligence about WMD, then certainly they would go the last mile and fabricate the discovery of WMD in postwar Iraq. Had evil manipulation been at play, the troops would be holding up large caches of WMD for Americans and the rest of the world to see. PETER MELARAGNO Miami Beach...
...sequel, he reappears as the almost impossibly intense and charismatic?though still somber?terrorist mastermind. Holed up in his ramshackle fort, torn between enlightened world-weariness and revolutionary zeal, he's a teenage mix of Osama bin Laden and Joseph Conrad's Kurtz. "They may call us evil," announces the philosopher-terrorist in a bin Laden-style address, "but we'll never abandon our struggle for justice...