The Brussels Journal

I have deliberately kept this blog sparse on links (the original Ironies and my other blogs have enough) but coming across The Brussels Journal, I felt a link belonged on this page. The insightful item below being the clincher:

On the Fall of the Wall, US Elections and Guatemalan Birth Rates

From the desk of Paul Belien on Fri, 2006-11-10 06:45

I have not been posting much this week since I was attending the general meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Guatemala City. Today (it is still 9 November here) is the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. We just heard a speech by former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who brought homage to Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul the Great, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and others and asked us never to forget the millions of victims of communism. Aznar also said that “today’s threat is no longer Soviet missiles. The threat is terrorism.” He added that “Islamic terrorists consider our democracy and freedom to be unbearable” and that policies of appeasement do not work: “Appeasement will not work against Islamic terrorism. We must not forget this lesson,” he said.

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