Haqqani versus Amalek

[Skybird]

Some background information on Netanyahu and Amadhinejadh that people maybe do not know. Much of it certainly was new for me.

And it makes the situation more frightening.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...631799,00.html

[CaptainHaplo]

Skybird - thanks for posting that.

As a man who has met Benny, and have taken the time to study him in part, I know the writer is correct in many of his assertions. Assuming the same regarding Iranian politics, its quite an interesting piece to the puzzle.

I do think that the writer forgets that the office of the president is subservient to the Supreme Leader in Iran, but the facts are that the current unrest could easily be used by a skillful politician (and A is one of those) to undercut that authority and solidify more of it in the presidency.

Good read. The future looks interesting.

[Fish]

Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu should both read 'The Bible Unearthed'.

From what I have seen from Spiegel in the past they probably have interjected their political bias and have it all wrong. They are further to the left than MSNBC.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

From what I have seen from Spiegel in the past they probably have interjected their political bias and have it all wrong. They are further to the left than MSNBC.

One must only stand far enough on the right , then the rest of the world appears to be on the left. Mybe you think CaptainHaplo also is a left-biased man? I do not have that impression of him. Nor do I consider myself to be "left".

In my school days, in the 80s, I thought of Der Spiegel having a left bias, and today I cannot say if that was just my perpection, or if they really were more to the left back then. But I can say for sure that today they are anything but "left". Quite all political parties get their share of critical treatment by Der Spiegel. They are the geman newspaper with the best international internet presence, and the german original I would consider to be well-rooted in the political centre today. Almost all other German papers do not even see a need for an international appearance of theirs (that's why I rarely, if ever, link to English essays from other German newspapers or magazines).

But neither that nor your reply have anything to do with the article's content that I linked. If you think the author got something wrong, point at that detail and comment on it instead of trying to distract attention and generally criticising Der Spiegel because Mr. Follath expresses something you happen to dislike. Follath is no idiot, btw, but a promoted expert with degrees in his fields (politics, orient and china) that he happens to know quite well. Beat him on his arguments and descriptions - not by making vague accusations about the place where he got published: it is no lobby-organisation paying for his income.

I respect your opinion. But aren't there other agencies which represent the German people, which are coming from a different political POV? Die Welt, for instance.? By American standards it is still a leftist publication, but we cannot all be Germans.