For those who, like Perry de Havilland, thought that my post about Blogdom attacks was an excuse for my not posting–sorry for the confusion. I was simply expressing general concern.
I myself don’t use blogger, and have had no technical difficulties at all. (I’m obviously not important enough to be attacked.)
I was simply busy over the weekend, and in addition, was undergoing a (temporary?) shortage of pith and wit.
For those who, like Perry de Havilland, thought that my post about Blogdom attacks was an excuse for my not posting–sorry for the confusion. I was simply expressing general concern.
I myself don’t use blogger, and have had no technical difficulties at all. (I’m obviously not important enough to be attacked.)
I was simply busy over the weekend, and in addition, was undergoing a (temporary?) shortage of pith and wit.
For those who, like Perry de Havilland, thought that my post about Blogdom attacks was an excuse for my not posting–sorry for the confusion. I was simply expressing general concern.
I myself don’t use blogger, and have had no technical difficulties at all. (I’m obviously not important enough to be attacked.)
I was simply busy over the weekend, and in addition, was undergoing a (temporary?) shortage of pith and wit.
According to Space.com, NASA is resurrecting its moribund nuclear reactor program.
It’s hard to imagine this happening when Al Gore was VP (or as President, if he had won). This is a critical technology if we are ever going to get serious about exploring or developing space. But expect the usual hysterical and ignorant suspects to raise a ruckus about it.
Blogspot seems to be down. That’s unfortunately not all that unusual, but combined with the hacker attack over at Cornerhost last night, it makes me wonder if there is someone who’s attacking Blogdom in general.
Lord Robertson says that NATO can’t be expected to support any US war on the axis of evil unless we can prove that they had something to do with 911. Gee, what happened to the war on terrorism? You know, the one that was supposed to put an end to terrorists with global reach?
Apparently, in NATO’s formulation, we’re not allowed to preempt attacks on our soil. We can only retaliate after they’ve occurred. By this logic, we could have done nothing about Al Qaeda in Afghanistan prior to September 11–we had to wait until they actually carried out the attack. Their stated intent to do so, and their previous attacks on our assets (including the first one on the WTC) were insufficient.
Europe had better understand that we are now going to do everything within our power to prevent any future attacks like the ones that occurred in September. In all three cases in the “axis of evil,” we are dealing with nations with whom we’ve either been actively at war (Korea and the Gulf War), or who have engaged in acts of war upon us (Iran, when they took and kept the hostages for over a year) to which we didn’t properly respond.
It was our failure to deal with them properly at the time that resulted in what happened in September, by building a reputation of weakness and vacillation on our part. All three countries represent unfinished business, business for which we were previously unwilling to pay the necessary price to see it through to the end.
Now we are more than willing to finish–with or without our NATO “allies.”
An eighteen-year-old (barely a) woman is going to be stoned to death for adultery under Sharia law in the Sudan. She was tried in a language not her own, she is a Christian, and the man who did the deed went free.
Well, they just took away one of the reasons to watch the winter Olympics. No more female limbs akimbo or crotch shots in the ice skating competition.
We’ve certainly come a long way from when the games used to be played in the nude. Of course, I wouldn’t have been particularly interested, since it was all guys then…
There’s a nice opinion piece in yesterday’s Brown Daily by Joshua Skolnic, on his recovery from Clinton infatuation. I wonder if this repentence is spreading?
Yet another reason to be thankful that the Clinton Administration is no longer the administration. The oddly misnamed Madeleine Albright channels the Euroweenies.
“First of all they (Iran, Iraq and North Korea) are very different from each other,” said Albright, who was Secretary of State in the Clinton administration.
Of course they are, but their similarities are much greater than their differences, and those similarities are more than sufficient to justify Bush’s characterization of them.
In the case of Iraq, Albright said the United States had been trying to contain President Saddam Hussein since 1991 and strong action was necessary. However, the situation with Iran was more complicated and the United States needed Tehran’s help in dealing with Afghanistan.
You mean help, as in not undermining the new government? They don’t seem interested in offering that kind of help. Perhaps a new government in Tehran would be an improvement?
Looking at North Korea, Albright said it was a mistake to walk away from that communist state. The United States has attempted to hold talks with North Korea about its weapons program but that process has gone nowhere.
No kidding.
I wonder why. Could it be because the folks who run the place are duplicitous Stalinist monsters, with no interest except their own power, and are only marginally sane? Nawww.
“When we left office, we left the potential of a verifiable agreement to stop the export of missile technology abroad on the table. I think it’s a mistake to walk away from that. We know that North Korea is dangerous but lumping those three countries together is dangerous,” she said.
In what way, Maddie? Just because we lump them together rhetorically doesn’t mean that we have to follow exactly similar policies toward them. I know it’s hard for you to understand, but it’s actually possible to deal with them together rhetorically, while still handling them separately, in an appropriate time and manner for each.
Anyway, I’m not sure why anyone in the current administration should be interested in your opinions on this, or any other matter. They’re kind of busy right now, cleaning up the mess that you left them.