Tuesday, February 10th, 2004
BLOGGER IN THE NEWS
Eugene Volokh appears in the Chicago Tribune today, both paper and online copies
Archive for February, 2004
Tuesday, February 10th, 2004
THE FOLLY OF REVISIONISM
From the Chronicle of Higher Education via Milt’s File.
“Revisionists also argue that totalitarians are wrong to neglect the ways that the Soviet regime did benefit its people. In the March 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Getty argued that “terror does not wholly negate achievements such as universal literacy, one of the best technological-education systems in the world, the first man in space, free education and health care, and security in old age.”
And the Holocaust should not obscure the fact that the Nazis sure held some fine parades.
Monday, February 9th, 2004
RUSSIANS REVIVE SOVIET PLAN TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF MAJOR SIBERIAN RIVERS
Reviving a Brezhnev era Soviet plan to divert Siberian rivers to the arid steppes of Central Asia, Russian President Putin hopes to save the Aral sea and rebuild economic and political ties with Russia’s Muslim ” Near Abroad “.
The original plan was skotched under international criticism as unworkable and dangerously unsound as it entailed changing the course of rivers using nuclear explosions. No indication that such shortcuts are envisioned in the new version of the plan.
Monday, February 9th, 2004
SOMETHING STRUCK ME AS ODD ABOUT THE RUSSERT-BUSH INTERVIEW
Errr…why no questions about Pakistan ? Here we have the admission of wide-ranging nuclear proliferation to dangerous rogue states and not a single question posed to the President of the United States. Isn’t that at least kind of important ???
Yes, Bush did a mediocre job on Meet The Press but the fact remains that the next president will have to make major strategic decisions regarding the war and the major role played in Islamist terrorism by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Bush and the Democratic nominee, presumably Kerry at this juncture, need to be asked ” Where will you take us ? What are your top objectives in combatting terrorism?” and in the case of Senator Kerry ” Are we at war or not ? “.
What answers will we hear, I wonder. Will such questions even be asked by a press consumed by superficialities, personality and image ?
Monday, February 9th, 2004
AL QAIDA TERRORISTS FRUSTRATED WITH IRAQIS, SEEK RELIGIOUS WAR ON SHIITES
The NYT ran an article, linked to by Drudge, on a document presumably written by a senior al Qaida terrorist lamenting the long, hard, slog the organization faces in Iraq and the lack of zeal for jihad shown by Iraqi Sunnis
Who knows how complete a picture this may be given that it is a single paper released selectively but it is certainly explicable considering the ruthless secularization that Saddam and the Baath pursued in Iraq over the last thirty plus years.
