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Messi leads Argentina to World Cup title This World Cup was the best! The guardians of this beautiful game couldn’t have scripted it any better. Proof enough came from fans marveling at the unprecedented hospitality. But its success had everything to do with players’ dazzling feats. Fans experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat several times… Read more.
Frankly, bitching about human rights in Qatar is rather like awarding China the next World Cup and then bitching about Orwellian censorship there. Read more.
President Trump received near-universal praise for his state visit to Saudi Arabia in late May. But I found this praise utterly bemusing and delineated the reasons why in “WTF: Saudis Giving Islamophobic Trump the Royal Treatment,” May 20, 2017. Evidently, those praising him didn’t bother to ask why he made this cradle of terrorism his… Read more.
I know, complaining about President Trump’s hypocrisy is rather like complaining about a prostitute’s promiscuity. Except that the former portends consequences that could destroy a country (even the whole world), which makes those the latter portends seem like nothing more than a genital itch. That said, Trump’s America-First policy towards Cuba amounts to little more… Read more.
