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Wednesday, Mar 26, 2003

judtment of history

"What is missing in recent American commentary is not so much an appreciation of history�there has been too much of that, with "Munich" invoked at every turn. What is lacking is a sense of the tragic. If the US has had such a long run of foreign policy successes in the modern age, it is in large measure because, as Dean Acheson once put it, "we were fortunate in our opponents." This may not last. We were also fortunate in our leaders. This has certainly not lasted. There is much confident talk of the coming American century; but one hundred years ago many thought it was Germany that held the keys to the new era�and they had good reasons for thinking it. As Raymond Aron once remarked, the twentieth century could have been the German century."

pnac sack

another pnac article from asia times.

shock tropes

"The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation"

watch tower

couple of warblogging resources --inteldump and yahoos list of blogs of warwatchers.

Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003

mustard gas

"THE ONLY THING FRENCH ABOUT FRENCH�S� MUSTARD IS THE NAME!"

wonder bread

"This plan, in the form of a budget resolution tied to a firm tax-cut mandate, is moving forward on Capitol Hill even as lawmakers' boilerplate speeches resound with calls for shared wartime sacrifice by all Americans. How an average $90,000 tax cut for each millionaire counts as sacrifice is only one of many unexplained mysteries as Republican leaders fiercely protect President Bush's second wave of tax cuts. The gallant troops in Iraq who are being invoked daily in speeches by members of Congress might be interested to know that the array of cuts includes an estimated $14 billion reduction in military veterans' programs."

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