Do Not Even Think About It — Take One / The Situation Is Worse Than Imaginable

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This Instapundit entry noted the record number of guns legally purchased in the United States since November 2008 and concludes, … there are some sections of the United States I would advise you…

Orientation And Intent Of The Madmen

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Using political satire, Dave Burge of Iowahawk discusses phenomena identified in the following direct observations.  In this cynical and sarcastic age, Dave’s chosen literary form probably is more palatable than direct observation. The soi-disant administration in Washington D.C. is a vector of…

Corpus Christianum And Moslem Ummah

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Correlations exist between what are called Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah. What are Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah and what is their significance linguistically, theologically, ideologically and as phenomena of history? Corpus Christianum…

The Season Of Advent: Submission To The Negativities Of Existence

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The central paradox (1) of the Christian Proclamation is the assertion that the very personality destined to save men, man, history and the universe from estrangement and ambiguity terminally submits to…

Senator Bob Kerrey: The Left’s Iraq Muddle, WSJ 22MAY07

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT BY BOB KERREY Wall Street Journal Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT At this year’s graduation celebration at The New School in New York, Iranian lawyer, human-rights activist and Nobel…

Why Hizbollah? Arab Legitimacy Is The Hashemite Dynasty And Kingdom!

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Question I’ve not been able to follow the initial development of the current Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Why now, beginning on the same day as Iran had a deadline with the UN?…

Sadr And His Friends And Relations

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. THE BACKGROUND The Hizbollah attack has forced the Bush administration to rethink its estimate of the “democracy” plan using Shiites — Islamic heretics — as the majority. All Shiites everywhere, Arab or Iranian, are being driven by the ones with the money and…

Solutions In The Levant And The Middle East

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Update 16JAN17 Something is afoot in MENA, a new alignment is forming, comprising Israel, Saud, Egypt and Jordan, that I can see so far. Not sure how it builds out, but I…

The Middle East Is Not Southeast Asia

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Tactically, US operations in Iraq differ typologically from those in Vietnam, in and of themselves and with respect to the force conducting them. The US Army today is nothing like what it was in the 1960s-70s. Nor does it fight as it…

Setting The Record Straight / Telling The Truth

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Reprinting this June 2006 essay in Commentary, in full, below: The Real Iraq By Amir Taheri Spending time in the United States after a tour of Iraq can be a disorienting experience these days. Within hours of arriving here, as I can attest from…

The Middle East In A Nutshell

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Update 16JAN17 Something is afoot in MENA, a new alignment is forming, comprising Israel, Saud, Egypt and Jordan, that I can see so far. Not sure how it builds out, but I…

On Law Itself

Some thoughts: 1- President George W. Bush is going to be regarded in the same breath as Lincoln and Washington. Their mantle rests on his shoulders. I trust him. My only criticism of President Bush is that he has not put the country on war footing, as during WWII. 2- There is no requirement that…

Politics And Ecumenism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Question: It seems to me that politics surrounding/related to terrorism (for lack of a better phrase on my part) is the impetus behind the Muslim ecumenical movement. Do you know if there was a political reason for the ecumenical movement in the US,…

Some Considerations Of Military Operations And Statecraft In The Middle East

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Update 16JAN17 Something is afoot in MENA, a new alignment is forming, comprising Israel, Saud, Egypt and Jordan, that I can see so far. Not sure how it builds out, but I…

Comments And A Refutation For An Internet Circular Regarding Scripture And Iraq

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, 1. The Garden of Eden was in Iraq. Comment: Actually, probably Kashmir but few would sign on to that, so that, so far as genuine (as opposed to tendentious) opinion is concerned, the location is unknown or at least uncertain. However, the…

A Profoundly Auspicious Development

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Colonel Lawrence (T. E. … “of Arabia”) is resting, at long last, in peace. The Hashemite Dynasty is asserting the authority of its ancient and primal responsibility. Heaven and Earth rejoice…