Recommended Reading
Best of the rest…..
Top Billing! Bruce Kesler eviscerates a major anti-war propaganda show and accompanying slipshod journalism of The Washington Post. It probably helped that Bruce was there for the original performance thirty-odd years ago. No surprises in the remake.
Sic Semper Tyrannis -“Baram on the AQ/Saddam Relationship”
Interesting snippet.
Ideas – “Krugman Paper: A Serious Comment” and “Paul Krugman’s, Interstellar Trade, and Causality Violation”
Libertarian economist David Friedman on Paul Krugman, economics and interstellar trade.
Cognitive Daily – “Do unusual objects attract our attention faster?”
Novelty will be an important variable for anyone attempting to speculate in the “attention economy” for IO purposes.
Fabius Maximus -“A solution to 4GW – the introduction” and “How to get the study of 4GW in gear”
And it needs to get in gear if it is to move from the intellectual margin.
Complexity and Social Networking Blog -“The Machinery of Hope”
CSNB comments on Rolling Stone’s cover article on fellow Harvard alum Senator Obama’s ( or David Axelrod’s) farsighted leveraging of Web 2.0 built networks for the campaign. Interesting to me as some ppl in my own online social network are involved. Valdis Krebs has more.
That’s it!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:31 am
And today’s the 40th anniversary of My Lai. But perhaps that was just propaganda, too.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:49 am
"And today’s the 40th anniversary of My Lai. But perhaps that was just propaganda, too."
I guess that would depend on if My Lai should be considered as an aberration or a paradigm.
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War crimes are serious matters requiring justice and punishment. Heavily bureaucratic modern armies have extensive paper trails. Historical events like the My Lai massacre are supported rather than refuted by that paper trail. When accusations of war crimes do not match even the most basic information regarding what military units and personnel were where and when then you have to express skepticism about the accuracy or motivation of the accuser.
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All armies in wartime, including our own, have soldiers who commit crimes and/or war crimes so such charges must be vgorously investigated and the JAG is very aggressive in so doing. War crimes, especially large scale atrocities, typically leave behind so much evidence and potential witnesses that they are less hidden than are brazenly committed.
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Groups with hyperpartisan agendas and self-seeking fools, like the hoaxer who was writing at TNR a while back, bringing forth unsubstantiated or patently false charges for political theater do not help matters. They potentially discredit and discourage people with authentic claims from coming forward.