The Return of the Ugly German

Their systematic dissemination endangers minorities, threatening them with invidious discrimination.

Pol Pot s wicked regime murdered millions in Cambodia until Vietnam intervened.

He later chose to practice in the solitude of the mountains, after becoming disgusted by the unpleasant behavior of certain scholars.

They have to do, or so we hear, with god, guns, and gays. Religion plays a part in them, including the literal truth of the bible when it comes to the story of the creation.

China doubters around the world were quick to pounce on the number, expressing fears of a stall, or even a dreaded double dip.

The odious poverty, the HIV AIDS pandemic and persistent indebtedness in many African countries were identified as the areas of particular concern.

Turkey has also tried, desperately at times, to maintain good relations with Bashar al Assad s regime in Syria, despite the Syrian government s abominable behavior.

This lamentable tradition was common to both Conservatives and Labour and yet, unfairly, it was the Labour Party that was most contaminated by the smear that it could not be trusted to manage the economy.

There is a strong sentiment that academics and institutions that collaborated with such an odious regime often with the encouragement of their governments, no doubt suffered a grave lapse of judgment.

The Chinese ship containing arms for the reviled Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe is finally headed home after protests and global condemnation prevented it from delivering its cargo.

Before turning to the matters before us, I should like to say that my country was horrified at the odious attack in Bali, which struck a friendly country so cruelly.

Our armed forces in the border region responded immediately to this abominable attack in line with their rules of engagement targets were struck through artillery fire against places in Syria identified by radar.

Germany s Nazi past is uniquely horrible, so comparisons with other countries with blighted histories are misleading.

Vietnam proved to be the end not the beginning of the line. Pol Pot s wicked regime murdered millions in Cambodia until Vietnam intervened.

The Party s unchallenged monopoly on political power systematically ensured that every mistake it made such as the dreadful decade of the Cultural Revolution turned into a prolonged nationwide crisis.

As long as this is so, and as long as undesirable human behaviour is an important cause of traffic accidents, education, complemented by enforcement measures, adequate infrastructures and sound collaborative efforts, will be the key to reducing road casualties.

Killing innocent people in order to bring a kind of rough justice to Chemical Ali a particularly nasty member of Saddam s military elite, but one who at the time of the raid was no longer in command of military forces is wrong.

An Egyptian precedent would bring awareness and sobriety to an entire generation of lenders that is not accustomed to considering this type of risk, and that may even be unfamiliar with the doctrine of odious debt.

Europeans will also see the dismantling of their welfare states and social security systems the cherished European model of pensions, healthcare, and unemployment benefits risks being replaced by the despised and widely feared American model.

That may be true of the war against Al Qaeda it is less obviously correct with regard to the Taliban. Obnoxious as their rule over Afghanistan was, the Taliban did not attack America, and Bush s war against it was not a war of last resort.

Few are willing to accept that Syria s President Bashar al Assad, despite his abominable record, now almost certainly must be part of the solution. And the open sore of the Israel Palestine conflict plays into every other rivalry.

Fears of a shadow bank induced credit bubble now top the worry list, reinforcing longstanding concerns that China may succumb to the dreaded middle income trap a sustained growth slowdown that has ensnared most high growth emerging economies at the juncture that China has now reached.

Ethiopia has undergone a remarkable transformation under his strongman rule since 1991, when his Tigrayan minority group from the country s north came to power with the overthrow of the odious Communist Derg led by Mengistu Haile Mariam (still enjoying a comfortable retirement in Robert Mugabe s Zimbabwe).

Quite the contrary the main reason the Dutch allowed themselves to be maneuvered into an impossible situation, without military support from the UN or from NATO allies, was their over eagerness to play an important role, to be taken seriously by the larger powers, to play with the big boys.