Yes. I hope that the short term worsening will in fact lead to a long term benefit, though. More obvious brutality leads to more opposition. We'll see.
I do worry with things like this though that they can go either way and it could slow things down.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Liu Xiaobo
08/10/2010 10:17:07 AM
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They award them now for Name Sounding Most Like a Mortal Kombat Character? *NM*
08/10/2010 10:58:54 AM
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China's Foreign Ministry says it will hurt Sino-Norwegian relations.
08/10/2010 11:28:06 AM
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Indeed
09/10/2010 12:02:13 AM
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Sort of good
09/10/2010 04:15:11 PM
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short term, long term
09/10/2010 04:48:54 PM
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hopefully
09/10/2010 04:55:00 PM
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