Robert Fisk, in the Palestine Chronicle, discusses the similarities and differences between the war against Iraq and the 1990s battle in Bosnia: “Bosnia was in Europe, so eventually, we wanted to switch the war off. Iraq is a different matter – we’re in Iraq for oil. If the national product of Iraq was asparagus, we…
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Spicing up your visit
Robert Fisk and The Independent are being sued for libel over an article that alleged a hotel in Beirut, the Mayflower -… where I stayed in 2005, oddly enough – was where readers could find Lebanese militias. For the record, the Mayflower was a comfortable place with a bustling bar. Militias? They must have been…