Dirt Comes Out In The Wash

As you might guess, the dirt on the Afghanistan debacle has now been coming out in the wash.

Otto von Bismarck Was Right .... Realpolitik

One striking fact was that apparently most of the armed forces attributed to the Afghan state, were in fact a paper, 'ghost' army.

Educated Decision

There have been a lot of social changes in the Western world over the last one hundred years ...

Votes For Women Started The Changes

  ..... especially from the point of view of women.

Afghani Fun And Games - Swedish Style

I don't know what Julian Assange is worried about. It appears that rape in Sweden is little more serious than a driving offence. This particularly true if you are a foreigner where it's almost a right of passage for Swedish citizenship.

Why do I say all this?

Afghan Fun - Swedish Style - Gang Rape.

Well in yet another example of Western Liberalism gone very very wrong, a Swedish judge had handed out trivial sentences to three rapists.

Its A Scary World

The world has become a very scary and strange place of late.

This Sort of Scary Is Within Our Cultural Norms ....

For those of us lucky enough to be born into the Western world, most of the scariness in our lives comes from the external cultures being introduced into ours, often via immigration, or perhaps globalisation. And the strangeness's, well they can nearly always be explained within our own cultural contexts (even The 'Donald'). Mostly it comes from our Western freedom to do our own thing, as long as it harms no others, so eccentricities abound, and are largely tolerated.