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Omar Khayyam (152) “so many hearts have been left bleeding”

Posted on 07/14/2012 by Juan

A shame that bankruptcy has left
us without capital in hand,
and that so many hearts have been
left bleeding by the blade of fate.
No one has come back from that world
with word of vanished travelers.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 152/ Arberry 1949

http://www.juancole.com/2012/07/omar-khayyam-152-so-many-hearts-have-been-left-bleeding.html

======== .. at this posting the one above is Juan's latest .. one opinion on AFRICOM ..

AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa

By Ezekiel Pajibo and Emira Woods. Edited by John Feffer, July 26, 2007

Just two months after U.S. aerial bombardments began in Somalia, the Bush administration solidified its militaristic engagement with Africa. In February 2007, the Department of Defense announced the creation of a new U.S. Africa Command infrastructure, code name AFRICOM, to “coordinate all U.S. military and security interests throughout the continent.” .. continued .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59092358 .. also posted on Foreign Correspondence .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59092339

since AFRICOM is there to stay i can only say, i hope President Obama's AFRICOM
is more humanely and wisely managed and monitored than McCain's would have been.

No doubt at all this one fits ..

The Non-Return of American Isolationism
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77080600

the non-return above is also linked in (toward the bottom) of the next link which also includes ..

Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan...

Record stores, Mad Men furniture, and pencil skirts -- when Kabul had rock 'n' roll, not rockets.


http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77207555

and here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77141614