tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post5888500634962906224..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Fun Online Polls: Neo-liberalism & abroadMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-15723035904398246382015-07-22T07:09:49.282+01:002015-07-22T07:09:49.282+01:00TS, B, SL, yes, the whole place is a hell hole and...TS, B, SL, yes, the whole place is a hell hole and it's best to steer well clear apart from buying oil.<br /><br />B, well spotted I have amended.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-49642263911782399932015-07-21T09:19:17.767+01:002015-07-21T09:19:17.767+01:00"Well, unless you can help put a Shah in offi..."Well, unless you can help put a Shah in office."<br /><br />That sort of thing was precisely where we went wrong last time.<br /><br />"Fun Online Polls: Neo-lliberalism "<br /><br />Is that the Welsh version?Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-63288167334930323592015-07-21T09:04:17.596+01:002015-07-21T09:04:17.596+01:00Steven_L,
Sorry. You might be right. I'm just...Steven_L,<br /><br />Sorry. You might be right. I'm just making a general point that I'm not too worried about the brutality of a regime in the Middle East because they're all at it (The problems of the Middle East is that they are still land-based economies, so unsurprisingly act like land-based economies used to be in Europe).Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-30371701357462567992015-07-20T16:22:34.000+01:002015-07-20T16:22:34.000+01:00No? I'm sure I've read about people who h...No? I'm sure I've read about people who have been locked up and tortured in Saddam's Iraq / Assad's Syria and then later released a while down the line.Steven_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029437876479574883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-76821730503841906872015-07-20T15:14:46.516+01:002015-07-20T15:14:46.516+01:00Bayard,
Well, unless you can help put a Shah in of...Bayard,<br />Well, unless you can help put a Shah in office.<br /><br />Steven_L,<br />No, they were brutal bastards. But the alternatives are also brutal bastards. But they are better in certain other ways.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-7599973416369533332015-07-20T14:49:42.440+01:002015-07-20T14:49:42.440+01:00dictators with a slighty more liberal view of rock...<i>dictators with a slighty more liberal view of rock 'n' roll and dress codes who torture and kill their opponents</i><br /><br />I think Assad and Saddam would even let their opponents go once they'd finished torturing them sometimes.Steven_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029437876479574883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-46218159004145574412015-07-20T14:40:09.693+01:002015-07-20T14:40:09.693+01:00"Isis and Syria? The best thing to do with th..."Isis and Syria? The best thing to do with the Middle East is to buy oil from the victors."<br /><br />having kept well out of any involvement in the meantime.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.com