Quotes by Terry Glavin - Page 2

On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.
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Birthday
Offering
Taliban
Truce
Bomb
Bringing
Claimed
Fortress
Hidden
Sept
Spoke
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'The world's wealthiest failed state,' as it has come to be known, Belgium endured 589 days without a functioning elected government between June 2010 and December 2011 and remains a dysfunctional, linguistically divided waxworks of one federal and five regional-cultural parliaments.
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Belgium
December
Divided
June
Remains
Dysfunctional
Elected
Endured
Failed
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It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.
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Anger
Brother
Drowning
Mother
Moved
Photograph
Pity
Refugee
Alan
Along
Boy
Name
Less
Dead
Five-Year-Old
Remembering
Syrian
Whose
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Armed drones have become Barack Obama's way to engage in terrorist-infested hellholes without putting 'boots on the ground.' For years, the CIA has been running a secrecy-shrouded program of targeted killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, and more recently in Somalia, Syria and Iraq.
Terry Glavin /
Afghanistan
Barack
Boots
Cia
Drones
Pakistan
Somalia
Syria
Yemen
Armed
Engage
Recently
Targeted
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There is often little to distinguish what Beijing wants from what Canada's foreign affairs mandarins want out of the Canada-China relationship, which is in any case rarely even close to what Canadians want - like some demonstrable public benefit for once, the opinion polls consistently show.
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Beijing
Canada
Consistently
Foreign Affairs
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
Affairs
Benefit
Canadians
Case
Distinguish
Rarely
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Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.
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Collapse
Deals
Evil
Resigned
Terrible
Ugliness
Afghans
Ceaseless
Compromises
Lesser
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While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment's notion of merit - good breeding, a posh school, and so on.
Terry Glavin /
Breeding
Entrepreneurial
Forgotten
Good Breeding
Labour
Labour Party
Merit
Notion
Posh
Prime Minister
Variety
Margaret
Minister
Readily
Thatcher
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It's known as the Livingstone Formulation. It's a cunning rhetorical device routinely deployed to shield avowedly left-wing establishment figures from any scrutiny that might expose their 'anti-Zionist' obsessions as redolent of a bigotry of that older and more unambiguously unsanitary type: antisemitism.
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Cunning
Establishment
Figures
Left Wing
Rhetorical
Scrutiny
Type
Deployed
Device
Expose
Formulation
Obsessions
Shield
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Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industries, the indentured-labour service had to be dismantled by the Conservatives owing to its inevitably scandalous abuse by disreputable employers. By 2012, there were 338,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada.
Terry Glavin /
Abuse
Canada
Employers
Labour
Occasional
Owing
Remedy
Scandalous
Short Term
Workers
Acute
Ailment
Conceived
Conservatives
Industries
Inevitably
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The IIP had to be folded up by the Harper Conservatives after it became clear - and as it took the 'South China Morning Post's Ian Young to reveal - that Canada's ragged refugee-class immigrants had contributed more to Revenue Canada than the IIP's big-spender immigrant investors did over the life of the program.
Terry Glavin /
Canada
Immigrants
Investors
Ragged
Revenue
Conservatives
Folded
Immigrant
Post
Reveal
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Back in August 2013, when Obama entertained the White House press corps in the Rose Garden to explain that he wasn't quite as eager to upbraid Bashar Assad as he might have inadvertently led them earlier to believe, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees counted about two million Syrians in its refugee statistics.
Terry Glavin /
August
Garden
Refugee
Statistics
White House
Obama
Commissioner
Corps
Counted
Eager
Entertained
Explain
Inadvertently
Led
Million
Refugees
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Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal with the delightful title 'The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious.'
Terry Glavin /
Assignments
Curious
Delightful
Fables
Journal
Vancouver
Account
Appeared
Captain
James
Memoirs
Monthly
Title
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The anti-war politicians who have risen to power in Washington, London, Ottawa and Brussels have never had to explain why they were offering the persecuted people of Iraq nothing that was in any way more useful to them than the shoddy, outrageously ill-planned intervention that was on offer from Blair and Bush back in 2003.
Terry Glavin /
Anti War
Blair
Brussels
Intervention
London
Offering
Ottawa
Persecuted
Risen
Power People Way
Useful
Bush
Washington
Politicians
Explain
Shoddy
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Now that the Liberal party has returned to power after nearly a decade of Stephen Harper's Conservative government and its on-again, off-again friendliness with Beijing, the propaganda line is that Canada-China relations are on the verge of a 'new golden age.' Count on it. There will be a price, and we will pay. We always do.
Terry Glavin /
Beijing
Friendliness
Golden
Golden Age
Liberal Party
Propaganda
Verge
Nearly
Conservative Government
Count
Decade
Liberal
Relations
Returned
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When one's greatest 'world stage' ambition is a non-voting seat on the U.N. Security Council five years down the road, one would not want to say anything to hurt the feelings of the veto holders in Moscow or Beijing. We get it. But let's at least be honest about all this, please. Enough of the 'Canada is back' slogans already.
Terry Glavin /
Ambition
Beijing
Canada
Council
Down The Road
Honest
Hurt
Moscow
Please
Security
Security Council
Slogans
Stage
Veto
Seat
World Stage
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It has been almost three years since U.S. President Barack Obama pipsqueaked on his chemical-weapons 'red line' in Syria and joined with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in the pantomime that resulted in the Sept. 27, 2013 U.N. Security Council Resolution 2118, which called on Assad to surrender his chemical weapons stockpile.
Terry Glavin /
Barack
Council
Pantomime
President Barack Obama
Putin
Resolution
Security Council
Surrender
Syria
Weapons
Barack Obama
Chemical
Joined
Red Line
Resulted
Sept
Vladimir Putin
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If you rely on a more conventional understanding of the term 'left-wing' as being associated with gradations of socialism in the emancipation of the working class, the Leap Manifesto looks something more along the lines of what the great British socialist and essayist George Orwell was on about in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' in 1937.
Terry Glavin /
Conventional
Emancipation
Leap
Left Wing
Rely
Socialism
Associated
Essayist
Manifesto
Orwell
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Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lost a referendum that would have allowed him a fourth presidential term, spends his time muttering about CIA plots and issuing threats to jail journalists who persist in reporting influence-peddling scandals. The economy is a sputtering shambles.
Terry Glavin /
Argentina
Bolivia
Cia
Fourth
Jail
Persist
Presidential
Journalists
Plots
Referendum
Reporting
Scandals
Threats
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As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to Iran's ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran's youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime's human rights outrages.
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Green
Human Rights
Iran
Notes
Revolution
Ruling
Theocracy
Ali
Backs
Directly
Documenting
Programs
Mash
Youthful
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The discovery of the Terror in, of all places, Terror Bay, on the southwest coast of King William Island, was the culmination of years of exertions by the Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) in collaboration with the Royal Canadian Navy, the Coast Guard, Parks Canada, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, the Canadian Ice Service and other agencies.
Terry Glavin /
Arctic
Canada
Coast
Coast Guard
Collaboration
Culmination
Discovery
Foundation
Ice
Navy
Parks
Royal
Terror
Agencies
Bay
Island
William
Guard
Southwest
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It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi.
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Afghanistan
Agency
Ghastly
Pakistan
Standards
Taliban
Early
Generals
Invented
Low
Primary
Proved
Soviets
Withdrew
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It might help to know that in Afghanistan citizenship papers and birth certificates and the official registration of births and deaths are the exotica of faraway places. One is born 'in the time of the pomegranate harvest' or some such thing or one's birthdate is recorded as the first day of the year if you are even aware of the year you were born.
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Afghanistan
Birth
Citizenship
Harvest
Papers
Registration
Deaths
Faraway
Official
Recorded
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