Posts with Comments by Ian

Blog changes and a warblog….

Posted by on March 22, 2003, filed under Uncategorized; 7 Comments.
  • Ian March 22nd, 2003 at 5:14 am

    "One thing I'm clear on, if we screw the Kurds, we'll lose what little moral cover we have, that's for sure"

    Why do you say this? Kurdish territorial ambitions extend into Turkey and Iraq, and surely those ambitions must be suppressed in the interests of stability. It's just as well Kurds seems unable to unite effectively (blame first cousin marriage?)

  • Ian March 22nd, 2003 at 6:56 am

    "extend into Turkey and Iraq"

    sorry I meant Turkey and Iran in the above post.

    • Death walks the streets

    Posted by on December 27, 2002, filed under Missing; 12 Comments.
  • Ian December 29th, 2002 at 8:01 am

    Razib,

    Check this out:

    Key findings of Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study on HIV/AIDS

    href="http://www.hsrc.ac.za/research/npa/SAHA/news/20021205Keynote.html">http://www.hsrc.ac.za/re
    search/npa/SAHA/news/20021205Keynote.html

    "The infection rate among whites was 6.2%. This is considerably higher than countries with
    predominantly white populations such as the US, Australia and France, where prevalence amongst whites
    is less than 1%. Prevalence among Coloured people was 6.1% and among Indians, prevalence was 1.6%."

    (Coloured means mixed race)

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