tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52548582011-11-27T15:57:25.526-08:00Until the end of the worldTurning points in the tapestry of modern modern historyNicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-1164252400198635272006-11-22T19:13:00.000-08:002006-11-22T20:52:45.190-08:00them soldiers, they leaving?This post was moved to Disturbing Trends - War Stories (where we take license with reality and write a bit of fiction).Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-1082258904067671582004-04-17T20:28:00.000-07:002004-04-17T20:32:19.153-07:00 CHANGING FACE OF IRAQ Iraq's real WMD crime By Lawrence Smallman in Baghdad Wednesday 17 March 2004, 13:03 Makka Time, 10:03 GMT Depleted uranium has a half life of 4.7 billion years There are weapons of mass destruction all over Iraq and they were used this past year. Iraqi children continue to find them every day. They have ruined the lives of just under 300,000 people during the last Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-1082156121361734532004-04-16T15:55:00.000-07:002004-04-16T15:59:14.403-07:00 Lessons of Falluja An army can kill civilians in an uprising. The Iraqi people gravitate to the loudest voice. The Islamic Iraqi people gravitate to the voice of a powerful cleric. They are led by the dictates of power. The only focus they can have is angry liberation and the trouble with being the invading force is becoming the target of hatred. Is George Bush being forced to withdraw Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-1076614937390660902004-02-12T11:42:00.000-08:002004-02-12T11:44:47.246-08:00 Battle Royale for Left President Bush is playing trump cards early Bush Details Plan to Curb Nuclear Arms (washingtonpost.com) in a cynical effort to soften Democratic unity under the growing banner of John Kerry, or even John Edwards. I got it wrong about Wesley Clark. I liked how he wrote and what he said has been important in defining the battlefield. Now President Bush has jumped into Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-1069876436673281242003-11-26T11:53:00.000-08:002003-11-26T11:54:42.873-08:00 "can not be allowed" Japan said of the United States of America and its' President's belief that tactical nuclear weapons are useable on a battlefield in a limited theatre of operation: "something which cannot be allowed". Can it be prevented? What are the advantages of such weapons? They allow the United States of America to fight its wars for far less cost, and therefore the threat of Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-1063384580544860382003-09-12T09:36:00.000-07:002003-09-12T09:36:20.456-07:00Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Meet criminals who cost UK £14bn: the middle class It all adds up All those little things we get away with add up. In the UK the regular guys small misdemenours and criminal acts add up to UK £14bn. Genuine honest human relations rarely exist. The norm in UK society is to get away with it if you can. Actions that cause a little bit of advantage or "Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-953106662003-06-04T19:07:00.000-07:002003-06-04T19:07:35.916-07:00 Saddam and WMD More on this later..Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-953105532003-06-04T19:04:00.000-07:002003-06-04T19:04:56.143-07:00 Now, Iran? Iran's Clerical leadership now want to rattle their sabres as GW Bush tells Israel and Palestine to get real about making peace. Just how effective Mr Bush will be remains to be seen, but somehow the simplistic approach may go along the lines of - become peaceful with each other or the US will occupy Israel. Iran sees the US as a big bully and the best way to deal with a bully isNicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-932090562003-04-24T17:17:00.000-07:002003-04-24T17:20:56.000-07:00 Shadow War Third Head of the Snake North Korea comes to the negoiating table armed with a nuclear threat. What is causing it to come to this? They are now petrified that the US is going to summarily invade them. It seems that the NK leadership rotted in its own gut. It shows no talent for the leadership necessary for economic growth let alone international diplomacy. It now thinks Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-931535192003-04-23T20:08:00.000-07:002003-04-23T20:08:51.686-07:00 We do not believe that it is constructive for the USA to set itself the goal of destroying the UN"s credibility. It was the USA's choice as possibly the sole agency on Earth that could contemplate going to war in Iraq and the UK beside them, in order to achieve I would guess a 95% survival rate without the machinery of death that controlled their lives. That there was a purpose in that Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-927990462003-04-17T13:51:00.000-07:002003-04-17T16:23:03.000-07:00 The Balance of Nature The balance of Nature has changed. Man, now tired of indulgent liberal ways turned to intervention by enforcement; death has been sanctioned to defeat the sadistic pleasure of tyranny but confined to the hands of the terribly human professional enforcer. We are entranced now by conquering the unknown enemy that lurks inside and surrounds us. We lost a sense that our Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-926236302003-04-14T19:38:00.000-07:002003-04-14T19:38:37.840-07:00 Iraq invasion fails to save culture Iraq's National Libarary and archives have been destroyed completely. It is not clear that this is due to bombing or if it is due to civil disorder. Either way, it is a crime against all humanity. Iraqi criminals raiding and looting as soon as shackles are removed is clearly wrong. The victims of their grasping greed also lived under Saddam's regime.Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-926081692003-04-14T14:46:00.000-07:002003-04-14T16:14:04.000-07:00 Not Syria ? There is always someone in every war. A mouthpiece to pre-massage opinion and draw the initial reaction. In this war it is Jack Straw. Syria seems the focus that requires the denial of a bishop. Jack Straw's word is a sacrifice that Bush can afford to be loose with. Not so sure that Tony Blair will not attempt to catch Jack Straw as he draws flak for disagreeing with GW Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-926065072003-04-14T14:15:00.000-07:002003-04-14T14:25:22.000-07:00 India / Pakistan Nukes Both India and Pakistan may question the path of the Bush doctrine of complete intolerance of anything but clean cut American culture as another defacement of South Asian culture in Western eyes. To defeat the dragon, you must look it in the eye. You must be able to outlast its glare or suffer its fire. Once you commence with such a contract, it has been an historic Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-923407002003-04-09T22:10:00.000-07:002003-04-09T22:10:05.623-07:00 The New Rules Ramy Khoury, editor of the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebannon, wrote, "If Washington merely suspects that terrorists may one day emerge from your land, or that you might in future threaten your neighbors, you have only two options: You change course and shape up, or you are finished as a governing regime. If you behave as Baghdad behaved, defying the new rules of the game, you Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-922329042003-04-08T10:31:00.000-07:002003-04-08T11:20:48.000-07:00 Assassination The Dangers (continued from Disturbing Trends) Attempts by intelligence agencies to install myths that support a future reigime paint by numbers a jigsaw of society that will continue to interact in non constructive paradigms of behaviour. Nature is the way it is because of the massive shedding of exact colours, and the gradual development of boundaries between which we may Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254858.post-921393752003-04-07T02:44:00.000-07:002003-04-07T03:31:00.000-07:00 Until the end of the world... What will die first, the world, the sun or mankind? We will run out of food, air or good will? Will evil take over the world . This secret column discusses the issues at the end of things. Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com