poirot: Got anything planned for the weekend, poirot?"

I'd a thought you'd da been out waving ya black Flag in protest at this poor innocent young moslem civilian brutally murdered by the terrible Australian Security Police.

1/nil, so far, going by yesterday. ;-)

Jayb,
Poirot will be crying it's eyes out right now at that poor innocent fruitcake being nailed.

Back to topic:

Obama has a huge dilemma here: he must keep the Sunni and Shia heartlands - Saudi Arabia and Iran - apart for as long as possible, otherwise it will be on for young and old, civil wars across the entire Middle East and Pakistan. So he has to keep Iran - officially - out of the current struggle and involve the Sunni only against ISIS. Brilliant !

In that sense, he is trying to limit the war, to prevent it becoming far bigger. While he concentrates on kicking ISIS' @rse, I wish him well.

Joe

David G,

You really ought to study a little history; slavery was around long before Columbus set sail for China (or wherever) and re-discovered America by accident.

This was a marvelous thread, one again near its end spoiled by the Resident Loonies like Jayb, Bigmouth, individual, etc who make up the resident peanut gallery.

Thanks to Peter for providing the article.

P.S. Sorry, I meant Richard!