Posted in 9500 on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Feels like the war in Iraq (Iran) is a smoke screen to hide what is going on with the economy - many with real wealth taking it out of the system and then out of the country.
Our leadership is caught wanting to take over the ship and run the same course
This prevents us from dealing [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
I was struck dumb by the zogby poll. Zogby International
A majority of likely voters – 52% – would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53% believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election, a [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Back from Pediatrics convention.
Book out to readers. Some interesting responses. More soon.
Karzai To Bush: ‘Roll Back’ The Use Of Airstrikes In Afghanistan
On 60 Minutes last night, Afghan President Hamid Karzai described his efforts to get President Bush to “rethink…the use of air force” in Afghanistan, which has killed more than 270 civilians in 17 air [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
What is most on my mind is the way we are entering a perfect storm of water problems, climate problems, an economy that cannot deal with distribution and is skewed by the American debt and the conditions of war out of the control of any ensemble of governments. This is a common condition for humanity. [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
From analysis of the Putin trip to Iran. Asia Times Online Middle East News - Attack Iran and you attack Russia.
As if anyone needed to be reminded, the buck - or rial - stops with the Supreme Leader, whose last wish on earth is to furnish a pretext for the Bush administration to launch [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
From Asia Times three Iran Kurd articles.
Iran looms over Turkey crisis diplomacy Feverish diplomacy is under way among major players in the Middle East, including the US, Turkey, Israel and Britain. Even as a large-scale Turkish invasion of northern Iraq grows daily more imminent, [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The Chalmers Johnson review in the previous post is extremely helpful - and difficult.
his final paragraphs are
With this book, Stephen Holmes largely succeeds in elevating criticism of contemporary American imperialism in the Middle East to a new level. In my opinion, however, he underplays the roles of American imperialism and militarism in exploiting the 9/11 [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
From Asia Times Online Middle East News - Intellectual fallacies of the ‘war on terror’ Chalmers Johnson. Lots of quotes but read the original. It can be also found at American Empire Project A Guide for the Perplexed. The article and the book it reviews and the books that book reviews, bring together a powerful [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
The article in yesterday’s NYT about water in the west - dissapearing - is very difficult.
Climate - Drought - Global Warming - American West - Arizona - Utah - Colorado - New Mexico -
When I met with Chu last summer in Berkeley, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which provides most of the [...]
Posted in 9500 on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
From Juan Cole
As long-time readers know, I believe that the only reason that the various players don’t form brigade-sized units and fight set piece battles with one another is US air power, which would take them out if they tried it. I don’t agree with the authors’ conclusion that a US withdrawal would lead to [...]
