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Yeah, but never mind. He visited Oz in 2006, pushing his book "The Great War For Civilisation', and he made a big deal of being an obvious Westerner living in the Middle East and able to speak the local languages. It meant that he could understand what people thought they were saying about him behind his back, and get a picture of how the West was perceived there.
That got me so much I had to buy the book. A really good read!
I do not always agree with left wingers, but the guy from Al Jazeera TV put the Tory Thatcher clone in her place when she was going on about ISIS beheading people. He discussed Britains allies Saudi Arabia beheads people. We all now the value of friendship £ $.
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Bombs at France game and shooting on 11:03 - Nov 20 with 2533 views
He's normally not my cup of scald but I love that. Had a touch of the Clive James about it. And thankfully lacking in faux-sentimentality. Just hard-hitting opinion.
It's been a week when Paris was remembered but Beirut was ignored, a week when politicians trampled over the graves of the dead to plant their own flags of convenience, a week when a Parisian dog was lauded all over facebook as a hero, a week when everybody, absolutely everybody was right. All the time.
O' Neill's two minutes will stand out as a highlight.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."