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NOAM CHOMSKY, APOLOGIST FOR GENOCIDE ?

Sure looks that way. You don’t often see Brad DeLong and David Horowitz in unanimous agreement but Chomsky is so extreme in his anti-Americanism and sloppy with his use of evidence that you can dislike him from a variety of angles.

NEW CENTCOM CHIEF AN ARAB-AMERICAN WITH A HARVARD DEGREE IN MIDDLE-EASTERN STUDIES

General John Abazaid. Now, why when they were trying to figure out a good occupational governor for Iraq, did they not tap Abazaid ?

NATO MEMBERS IN TRANS-CAUCASIA ?

While this has escaped the attention of the American press, it appears the Republic of Georgia has quietly been attempting to build a relationship with NATO

Georgia is an ancient Christian nation and former Soviet Republic in the resource-rich Trans-Caucasian region. The Georgians have a long history of suffering oppression from outside powers including the Iranians, Turks, Mongols, Russian Tsars and Soviet Communists. When not struggling against foreign rule, they tend to feud with their neighbors or amongst themselves being divided into ethnic tribes like the Abkhazians, Mingrelians, Svanyi among others. Since independence Russia has meddled in Georgia’s internal affairs to encourage ethnic separatism in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and been a party to a number of peacekeeping and anti-terrorist agreements with Georgia.

Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Soviet Foreign Minister under Gorbachev whose administration replaced the democratically elected but nonetheless weird and authoritarian regime of ousted president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, is essentially a survivor in a very tough neighborhood. Most people, to the extent that they remember Shevardnadze, is his courageous resignation as Foreign Minister, warning Gorbachev of a possible hardline Communist coup. It is worth recalling that Shevardnadze began his Soviet career using the Interior Ministry (MVD) to investigate and destroy a rival Communist faction in the Georgian Communist Party apparatus, catching the eye of KGB chief and Politburo member Yuri Andropov who also sponsored Gorbachev and Vladmir Kryuchkov, who later used his post as KGB Chairman to launch the Coup in 1991. A friend of the West today, yes. A model democrat or a liberal, no.

Relations between NATO ,other European political structures and the United States should continue with an emphasis on preventing Georgia’s territorial disintegration, integrating it’s economy with that of Europe and creating a professional military force capable of clamping down on ethnic paramilitaries, Chechen rebels and gangster bands without recourse to direct Russian assistance.

RESISTANCE GROUP POINTS TO IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES

From the AP

Those who have decried the Bush administration ” unilateralism” and called for multilateral, diplomatic, action and inspections as a credible alternative to force have an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment by demonstrating how well that approach can work with the Mullahs of Iran. UN, EU, IAEA, France, Germany, China – get started. I’ll be pleased to announce your successes and sing your praises.

I WANT ONE OF THESE !

From Defensetech.org

” NAVY PLANS DISPOSABLE RAY GUNS

American warships could be armed with disposable laser weapons within five years, if a plan by U.S. Navy scientists works as promised.

Michael Wardlaw, with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, has proposed that the Navy use a battery of solid-state, one-shot-only lasers to zap enemy boats and defend against missile attacks. This Expendable Modular High Energy Laser (EMHEL), Jane’s Defence Weekly reports, would use a brick of 120, meter-long laser modules that could fire individually or in one giant pulse