Arctic Lessons
Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under 327 | Leave a Comment
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Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under 327 | Leave a Comment
Ethnically homogeneous states are far more peaceful and more stable than multi-ethnic ones.
Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Barry Scott Zellen, Deputy Editor, “Strategic Insights”, and Research Editor of the Arctic Security Project at the Center for Contemporary Conflict.
Q. During the 1990s, American and NATO forces directly engaged, through diplomatic and military means, the challenge of state collapse and the resulting explosion of ethnic and tribal violence that accompanied state failure. What do you think were the main lessons learned, through these experiences, for decision-makers in the western world?
Read More..>>Sleeping Dogs, Politics, and Politicians - Why Government is Broken
Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under 327 | Leave a Comment
Like the energy crises and the mortgage crises, problems can lie like Sleeping Dogs for decades before they blow up in our faces. How will we get the people we elect to run our Government to deal with those Sleeping Dogs before they become disasters?
Read More..>>Ding Dong the Pretext is Dead
Posted on July 18, 2008 - Filed Under 327 | Leave a Comment
Observations from the EdgeRobert T. NanningaBuzz PublicationsMay 25, 2007
I said “it’s all about the oil? when the Bush Administration was building up to regime change in Iraq and George W’s war on terror, and I said it before and after President Bush proclaimed “mission accomplished? from a Battleship off the coast of San Diego. There is no comfort in “I told you so.?
Recent history has proven me right. Under the cover of violence, and a growing body count of American dead, western oil interests have taken control of Iraqi oil fields.
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