New roll-out (propaganda campaign) for war with Iran?

Gandhi was criticized by some Congress party members and other Indian political groups, both pro-British and anti-British. Some felt that opposing Britain in its life or death struggle was immoral, and others felt that Gandhi wasn't doing enough. Quit India became the most forceful movement in the history of the struggle, with mass arrests and violence on an unprecedented scale.[13] Thousands of freedom fighters were killed or injured by police gunfire, and hundreds of thousands were arrested. Gandhi and his supporters made it clear they would not support the war effort unless India were granted immediate independence.

The current Dalai Lama has repeatedly stated that he will never be reborn inside territory controlled by the People's Republic of China[4], and has occasionally suggested that he might choose to be the last Dalai Lama by not being reborn at all. However, he has also stated that the purpose of his repeated incarnations is to continue unfinished work and, as such, if the situation in Tibet remains unchanged, it is very likely that he will be reborn to finish his work.[5] Additionally, in the draft constitution of future Tibet, the institution of the Dalai Lama can be revoked at any time by a democratic majority vote of two-thirds of the Assembly. The 14th Dalai Lama has stated, "Personally, I feel the institution of the Dalai Lama has served its purpose."

Nelson's got his statue, now for Fidel and Gadaffi

I boycotted last week's unveiling of the Nelson Mandela statue in Trafalgar Square because, inexplicably, there was no room on the plinth for Nelson's lovely ex-wife Winnie, carrying one of her famous burning necklaces.

So often, in history, the role of the supportive wife has been overlooked. That, as the feminists will tell you, is why it's called HIStory.

There was no room, either, for those black race traitors whom Nelson's organisation Spear of the Nation, which he once led, subjected to "torture and staggering brutality" in Angolan concentration camps. They could have been depicted looking contrite and repentant under Nelson's beatific smile.

I had hoped, too, that there might be room for two of Nelson's close friends, those implacable democrats Colonel Gadaffi and Fidel Castro: but no.

Perhaps the problem is that Trafalgar Square isn't big enough to contain all of our modern, progressive, political heroes. We should open a theme park, like they have in the former Soviet Union and old East Germany.

There people could wander around and gaze in awe upon the likes of Nels and Winnie, Muammar and Fidel, Abu Nidal, the pizza-faced despot General Manuel Noriega of Panama, Hugo Chavez holding out buckets of free oil to a fawning Ken Livingstone, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, stoically resisting Yankee aggression, his finger poised coquettishly over a red button.

Your standard of reality differs from the mainstream of all societies.

And your's is never self-serving.

I suppose that referring to the President of the most powerful nation on earth and the leader of Western society as a "miserable excuse for a human being" is closer to reality then.

I'm content enough not to want it destabilised and that's for sure and especially not by ignorant egomaniacs who haven't the faintest idea what to put in its place if they succeeded in undermining it.

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I suppose that referring to the President of the most powerful nation on earth and the leader of Western society as a "miserable excuse for a human being" is closer to reality then.

Yes. and that is what makes him so dangerous. As for him being a leader. Who is following. Not the rest of the world or even for that matter the citizens of the US. At this point he couldn't get elected to dog catcher.

Even Bush admitted no one listens to him anymore,

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Even Bush admitted no one listens to him anymore,

If that is true then the policy can't be his fault and must be an institutional problem.

That argument is posited entirely on au's definition of "fiasco" and is thus, as ever, tautological which is to say meaningless.