Thursday, March 6th, 2003
THE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
” Statistics are no substitute for judgement ”
– Henry Clay
Archive for March, 2003
Thursday, March 6th, 2003
MUST BE MADE OF BRASS DEPARTMENT: The Chicago Tribune reports today that Clinton foreign policy team members Sandy Berger, Madeleine Albright and William Perry gathered on Capitol Hill to blast the Bush administration’s handling of North Korea. As the former National Security Advisor and close Clinton confidant, Berger more than anyone bears responsibility for the current mess ( excepting the North Koreans and Clinton himself) because the 1994 nuclear deal brokered by Jimmy Carter was Berger’s baby. Since North Korean cheating on the arms deal was immediate and was reported openly in the Washington Post in the late 1990’s and was deliberately ignored by the Clinton administration as a matter of policy why should anyone in the Bush administration listen to this irresponsible entourage ?
Perhaps next Daschle can trot out Warren Christopher to tell us what to do when a horrific genocide breaks out in a small African country.
Thursday, March 6th, 2003
EMPIREWATCH ! GEORGE SOROS: Says that George Bush is an imperialist with an exaggerated view of his own righteousness. Recall this is the billionaire who has set up a foundation in order to meddle in the political affairs of foreign countries. Soros has good objectives in doing so, spreading liberal democratic reforms. Kind of like…. George W. Bush’s policy on Iraq.
Imperialism is in the eye of the beholder.
Thursday, March 6th, 2003
THE COMING OF THE GLOBAL HYPERECONOMY: Economic doldrums of the moment aside, the most advanced first world economies are going to be transformed economically, socially and politically in the next twenty to thirty years. Genetic engineering is one transformative field, Quantum Computing is another and the first nation-state to assemble an array will have a locked in comparative advantage over all of the others ( the new Quantum computers can immediately be put to solving previously intractable math problems thus creating proprietary breakthroughs in other fields). The speed of information and economic exchanges will reach a ” light ” standard of transmission and the hypothetical, instantaneously reacting free market will exist, at least in the U.S., Japan and a few other states. We may in fact, have to install artifical ” break ” periods because human beings and their societies are not wired for 24/7/365 markets. For a quick tutorial on all things Quantum go to Newscientist.com
Thursday, March 6th, 2003
WAR A DONE DEAL ? The Russians flee Iraq en masse today. The Day of Reckoning approaches:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Hundreds of Russians left Baghdad on Thursday in anticipation of war, even as Iraq destroyed six more Al Samoud 2 missiles in an effort to prevent one.
Three charter flights to Moscow were posted on the board at Saddam International Airport, and hundreds of Russians milled about the waiting room, witnesses said. Journalists were told not to go to the airport.
An official at the Russian Embassy who wouldn’t give his name said “as many as 600” Russian citizens were leaving on two charter flights Thursday. He hung up when pressed for details.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry in Moscow has said the Emergency Situations Ministry would fly Russian workers and their families out of Iraq by Sunday, according to the Interfax news agency. It said the Russian Embassy will continue to operate.
Hundreds of Russians and Ukrainians have already returned home from Iraq over the past few weeks.
