Sunday, March 9th, 2003
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
” …Cast away vain hopes; and if you have any regard at all for self, see to your own security while you still may ”
– Marcus Aurelius
Archive for March, 2003
Sunday, March 9th, 2003
RAM TOUGH ! The Revolution in Military Affairs is not only coming, it’s half-way here. This analysis explains why Rumsfeld can snub ” Old Europe ” instead of swallowing Chirac’s anti-American policies and why he can contemplate pulling the troops out of Germany and South Korea.
Sunday, March 9th, 2003
” THE TYPES OF RESEARCH IRAQ HAS BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE CONDUCTED POINTS TO THEIR INTEREST IN BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS NOT JUST AS A BATTLEFIELD WEAPON BUT AS A STRATEGIC WEAPON, AN ECONOMIC WEAPON, A TERROR WEAPON, AND POSSIBLY A GENOCIDE WEAPON ”
Charles Duelfer
Deputy Chairman of UNSCOM
In Congressional testimony back in 2000. Reprinted in the critically acclaimed The Gathering Storm by Kenneth Pollack on page 173. I don’t recall this as front page news in the New York Times. I don’t recall the Clinton administration stalwarts, currently engaged kibbitzing on North Korean policy, reacting with alacrity or even a public comment. If there was at any time in the last 100 years an administration more careless with national security, more obtuse to America’s national interests and contemptuous of messengers bearing bad news I am hard pressed to think of it. The Clinton crowd made Jimmy Carter and Cyrus Vance look like Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles.
Sunday, March 9th, 2003
” HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN TAKING GERMAN MONEY ?” Was a question asked of vociferous isolationists in the 1930’s and as it turned out, quite a few of them had cozy business relationships with the Reich in addition to admiration for the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini. And so it goes with nations today with Saddam’s Baathist Iraq; his most ardent defenders on the UN Security council feed deep at the Iraqi trough
