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Russell Brown, straw men and withdrawal from Iraq

Jun 7, ’06 9:21 AM

Like many Kiwis on the net I enjoy read­ing Rus­sell Brown’s blog, Hard News, but every now and then some­thing goes ter­ribly ter­ribly wrong.

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We bear responsibility

Jul 14, ’05 12:11 AM

“The cent­ral fact is that over­whelm­ingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by reli­gion as much as they are by a clear stra­tegic object­ive: to com­pel mod­ern demo­cra­cies to with­draw mil­it­ary forces from the ter­rit­ory that the ter­ror­ists view as their home­land. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kash­mir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist cam­paign — over 95 per­cent of all the incid­ents — has had as its cent­ral object­ive to com­pel a demo­cratic state to withdraw.”

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Review of Great New Zealand Argument

Jul 5, ’05 10:53 PM

Today I received a copy of Great New Zea­l­and Argu­ment: Ideas about ourselves, edited by Rus­sell Brown, which was sur­pris­ingly quick. Pre­sum­ably it was dis­trib­uted from within the UK some­where. It’s a good look­ing book; the cover appears as if it might be a pic­ture of Rus­sell and his kid walk­ing down a coun­try road (I’ll have to ask him). Well chosen fonts, a good lay­out and obvi­ously metic­u­lous edit­ing make it easy on the eye too. I only wish I’d been able to get a hard­back ver­sion as this is a book I’d like to last.

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