Okay, I’ll admit to skimming this, however this might explain why EU resistance to this action in Iraq was so fierce.. and is yet another perspective on the overly-simplistic “War is about oil” mantra. -Ian. —-
The New York Times March 23, 2003 The Philosopher of Islamic Terror By PAUL BERMAN In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, many people anticipated a quick and satisfying American victory over Al Qaeda. The terrorist army was thought to be no bigger than a pirate ship, and...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/marshall_pr.html WIRED: Issue 11.02 – February 2003 The Marshall Plan For 40 years, the man Pentagon insiders call Yoda has foreseen the future of war – from battlefield bots rolling off radar-proof ships to GIs...
When you can loiter over a “target” with a big, heavy, noisy warplane loaded with howitzers and heavy machine guns, you ARE god. Unfortunately, from that height you can’t really tell who the good guys and the bad guys are, now, can you? Who among...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021208/wr_nm/ column_livewire_dc Livewire: Blogs May Pierce the Fogs of War Sun Dec 8, 3:06 PM ET Add Technology – Reuters Internet Report to My Yahoo! By Adam Pasick NEW YORK (Reuters) – CNN owned...
