Arianna Huffington has a post up about the Iraq Study Group report. I love her style of cutting-to-the-chase writing. This one’s called Cutting the Fat from the Iraq Study Group’s 79 Proposals. This time, however, I disagree with her about something. She comments: – it’s hard enough to read through 79 proposals, let alone […]
Thanks to friend Ralph for calling my attention to Ockham’s Razor ref: Occam’s razor is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity in […]
[it always did look like a W to me] I’m a slow learner. It’s that simple. Here are a few things I might be coming to believe now that I didn’t believe this time last year. I guess I could title this on the tenative birth of a reluctant conspiracy theorist: If you read the […]
Why didn’t their strategic plan work? It’s a failed business plan, a failed military plan, and one of the worst foreign policy plans in the history of our country. It failed at every level. The goal of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq was to unseat governments that wouldn’t deal with the American Corporations after […]
How cool is that? 1999 2005
strat·e·gy [strat-i-jee] –noun, plural -gies. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations. the use or an instance of using this science or art. skillful use of a stratagem: The salesperson’s strategy was to seem always to agree with the customer. a […]
U.S. Envoy Khalilzad to Leave Iraq, Officials Say Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, plans to leave his post and will be replaced by Ryan Crocker, the current ambassador to Pakistan, according to two officials familiar with the matter. Khalilzad has been the U.S. point man in trying to restore security and stability to […]
if you read anything else this year,read this Common Dreams Editorial… Since the elections, I’ve been feeling like winding down my blogging days pretty soon. I’ve been writing almost daily about the same monotonous things for a year on this blog, and another blog for 6 months before that – the Fitzgerald Investigation of the […]
John Bolton resigns as U.N. Ambassador! There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States. John Bolton
I’m aware that I’ve avoided looking into Halliburton for the whole year that I’ve been doing this blog. I know that part of my avoidance is that it feels like one of those topics Rush Limbaugh would jump on if he were on our side. Who wants to sound like Rush Limbaugh? or Ann Coulter? […]