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Ohrmazd – A Repost for Palmyra

Once this sand and wilderness were gardens, where we greeted mighty Cambyses glittering dancers whirled as your priests filled our cups with liquid glory. ‘til Macedonian javelins rained down and the runners brought the dread from the River Granicus You … Continue reading

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Return of the Abbasid

  And so yesterday the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham committed another barbarity. A captured American journalist, Steven Sotloff was beheaded on camera as a “message” to America. Presumably this atrocity was ordered by Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi, self-styled “Caliph … Continue reading

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The Rains Are Coming

The rains are coming to parched deserts washing away the foot prints of the invader. After the deluge all will be as if the foot prints never were. They lost lives, the invader a limb, a foot, an eye for … Continue reading

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Wasting Lives and Making Enemies

Mosul So yesterday it was reported that “insurgents” in Iraq had seized control of Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city. They had already occupied Ramadi and Fallujah, two places where Americans died ousting the “insurgents” in the first place. The … Continue reading

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