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Isis thwarted

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/12/2019

» Until the 20th century, jihadists had no bones to pick with the US. Their ire was directed at the UK and France who coveted their lands, and the Jews trying to carve out their own. They got good press when T.E. Lawrence led the Arabs against the enemy Ottoman Turks. The silent film The Sheik romanticised them. The Riffs were favoured in their uprising against Spain. They didn't participate in the North African campaign in World War II.

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Desert graveyard

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/06/2019

» While not as prestigious as Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize awardees are highly regarded in the US. The annual recipients are rewarded for works a giant step above their colleagues.

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The end is nigh

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/03/2019

» It has been determined that we've been around for 4.5 billion years, Earth the only habitable planet in the solar system.

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Flight of fancy

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/03/2019

» Intelligence agencies the world over see Russia's cloak-and-dagger operations as the greatest danger. But Russia's chief enemy is the US, to which it causes endless mischief, both directly and indirectly.

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Barbed humour

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/10/2018

» It was as a soldier boy in President Truman's "Police Action" that I first visited Asia -- South Korea and Japan.

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Grisham winner

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/06/2018

» To add insult to injury, the Third Reich spent not a single mark of the German taxpayers' money on the ghettos, death camps, gas chambers or crematoria. There was no budget for the Holocaust. The expenses were covered by money stolen from the Jews themselves.

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Action-packed

Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/06/2018

» When a popular author passes away, his/her estate seeks a replacement to keep generating income. Hopefully, one who can step into the shoes with nary a squeak. Alas, there have been more than a few squeaks and the replacement -- a competent scribe for the stories he's accustomed to writing -- is unable to make the change. The estate may try others with the same result.