starting this thread, which i hope will be short-lived, to keep the board up to date with latest reports gleaned from the net

spiracy schmiracy, as some might say!

in an age where news is live 24/7 we have rather come to expect things to be resolved quickly and easily ..... "world drama" can often feel like a tv serial with neat little conclusions at the end of each episode, which of course is ridiculous

Looking at Iraq and probably Libya and possibly Egypt your conclusion is possibly correct.

How will the Drama of Syria and SA work out?

iraq - coronation street
libya - the likely lads
egypt - carry on cleo
syria - pilot programme only
sa - never got past consideration

Is he slipping something to the frog

Israel - Waiting for Godot

the wasteland!

fred's and parrot's and fahel's favourite book is.....Mein Kampf

Is it porno

Do any of you free thinking gentlemen honestly think that it will end when Gaddafi goes?? I say there will be one big bun fight while various factions try to wrest control from the others. We may well end up out of the frying pan so to speak !!!! You cannot knock the bravery shown but to what end?? I bet that in some shady little dens deals are all ready being struck and not by the people dodging the bullets.

it will at least be the end of the beginning, but it is indeed possible that the frogs will ultimately inherit a heron king

very Churchillian

In the 1920/30s we would have backed them to the hilt until the chips were down then walk away as they were fed to the lions. As a nation we are not without guilt ask the cossacks!!

itlob - the first part indeed; the second is aesop

Yes, I know, though the heron king reminded me of the long necked de Gaulle and all the problems we had with him and his ego both during the war and afterwards :)

There speaks a true sesquipedalian. Mr.c lol.

and there's a great non-seq ..... i'ld have liked oxymoron, but that isn't apposite unfortunately

but meantime and back on subject, things are looking very bloody and nasty in libya

oxymoron = certain contributors here whose brains' functionality doesn't extend beyond autonomically breathing oxygen

don't tease bernard; he won't like it and will sulk .... as for me, i never take offense anyway

Just in case anyone (and I realise you aren't serious) does take offence, please don't. I was only referring to fred, the parrot and fahel and that is axiomatic.

Just ones who dare to criticise Israel!

Assad's speach today was very interesting. It looks as though he has missed the chance to fix Syria's problems and they will get more demos, especially from Friday. He was too vague about changes.

One item went largely unnoticed. He said that the Arab world will not be the same place very soon. The attitude of Arab nations to the Palestine problem will change from one of consessions to demanding what is right.