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Tuesday, Sep 19, 2006
Devolution Buried Under Daily Carnage
In these articles by NYT and AP, the coverage of the movement towards autonomy for Shi'ites is buried in a larger story about the daily carnage. Rather than pretending that a peaceful, unified, democratic, pro-American Iraq can be achieved if only we clap louder, the US should be preparing for devolution of Iraq into three states.
Meanwhile, Turkey is watching events and warning of regional instability.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Instructional video.
Reprise: This is a picture of a very dangerous man
The notion that, somehow, someone who had caused more than a million deaths in the Iran-Iraq war, someone who had invaded Kuwait, and we believe, was probably on his way to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, somebody who threatened his neighbours every day, who shot at our aircraft, who had broken out of an embargo and was using his oil wealth to build up an arsenal of weapons, that this is not a threat, in the world's most volatile region.
Secretary Condoleezza Rice
September 10, 2006
Secretary Condoleezza Rice
September 10, 2006
Donald Rumsfeld, Special Envoy to Iraq for the Reagan Administration, visiting Saddam Hussein on December 20, 1983, to offer continuing support during Hussein's war against Iran. That support included dual use technologies which were of use in the development of chemical weapons, and intelligence from satellite imagery, to better target those weapons against Persians.
ac·com·plice n
An associate in wrongdoing, especially one who aids or abets another in a criminal act, either as a principal or an accessory.
An associate in wrongdoing, especially one who aids or abets another in a criminal act, either as a principal or an accessory.
Were you born that stupid, or did it require years of training?
There’s a lot of questions right now that I can’t answer. What holds the clouds up?
Professor Billy Wilbanks
Chair of the Science Department, Jacksonville College
Private junior college owned by the Baptist Missionary
Association of Texas
more at PharyngulaProfessor Billy Wilbanks
Chair of the Science Department, Jacksonville College
Private junior college owned by the Baptist Missionary
Association of Texas
Monday, Sep 18, 2006
Physician, Heal Thyself
From the Letters published today in the WSJ ...
This new plan of Gen. Abizaid's isn't new to the military. In the 1980s Gen. Paul Gorman was commander in chief, Southern Command, an area covering all of Central and South America. His directive was simple: Send me engineers, doctors and intelligence analysts and I won't need combat infantryman. If we help the locals build roads, dig wells, care for their children and animals and keep track of the enemy we will be successful. Time has proven him right.
Eugene Sullivan
Lieutenant Colonel
U.S. Army, Retired
Stanardsville, Va.
No army will ever be able to defeat a ruthless and barbaric enemy by providing it with food, water, hospitals and school supplies. The only way to accomplish that is the old-fashioned way: Kill as many of the enemy as possible. Our society seems to have lost its will to win if it requires bloodshed. What will it take to change this collective suicidal brainwash? Probably nothing short of a WMD attack. While the generals and the military hand out crayons, Iran builds nuclear weapons for, of course, "peaceful purposes," I'm sure.
R. Menendez, M.D.
El Paso, Texas
Eugene Sullivan
Lieutenant Colonel
U.S. Army, Retired
Stanardsville, Va.
No army will ever be able to defeat a ruthless and barbaric enemy by providing it with food, water, hospitals and school supplies. The only way to accomplish that is the old-fashioned way: Kill as many of the enemy as possible. Our society seems to have lost its will to win if it requires bloodshed. What will it take to change this collective suicidal brainwash? Probably nothing short of a WMD attack. While the generals and the military hand out crayons, Iran builds nuclear weapons for, of course, "peaceful purposes," I'm sure.
R. Menendez, M.D.
El Paso, Texas
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