tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post115595906270013069..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The Lebanon WarDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-1161200579441652802006-10-18T15:42:00.000-04:002006-10-18T15:42:00.000-04:00I mostly just wanted to say kudos for the details ...I mostly just wanted to say kudos for the details and information you put together in your posts. Good stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-1156114265133558732006-08-20T18:51:00.000-04:002006-08-20T18:51:00.000-04:00Bush and Rice know how much it costs to whomp up "...Bush and Rice know how much it costs to whomp up "enthusiasm" for a recall movement in Venezuela or a colored revolution in an eastern-bloc nation. Naturally they assume that most public displays are generated in the same way.<BR/><BR/>As for their idea of democracy, which seems to involve people liking you after you drop bombs on them...well, Bush and Cheney alone could inspire a new field of scholasticism, the clinical psychologist-historian.<BR/><BR/>ye olde serial catownerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-1156018375725379682006-08-19T16:12:00.000-04:002006-08-19T16:12:00.000-04:00Prof.Kaiser: The "provocation"that hizbolla conven...Prof.Kaiser: The "provocation"<BR/>that hizbolla conveniently supplied<BR/>was anticipated by both Israel and<BR/>the U.S. according to published<BR/>reports.At a meeting in May,Prime<BR/>Minister Olmert and Pres. Bush<BR/>discussed how Israel would respond<BR/>and what help the U.S.would provide.<BR/>When it became obvious to the U.S.<BR/>that Israel had botched its response and could not "deliver"<BR/>the "military cards" it promised,<BR/>the U.S. decided to "declare victory" over hizbolla and dumped<BR/>Israel.This episode underlines the<BR/>well understood principle that in<BR/>foreign affairs there are no permanent friends,only national<BR/>interests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-1155964817120557572006-08-19T01:20:00.000-04:002006-08-19T01:20:00.000-04:00Prof. Kaiser, you never know with the Bush Adminis...Prof. Kaiser, you never know with the Bush Administration. <BR/><BR/>Hubert Vedrine, the former French Foreign Minister, assesses the President's Greater Middle East Initiative as an effort with one purpose: to evade the Palestinian issue. Two moves by the Administration in this respect -getting Syria out of Lebanon and weakening Mubarek- have turned out to be clamorous strategic blunders.<BR/><BR/>I truly don't believe in a US attack on Iran. What I do believe is that creating one's own "reality" without the ability to manage any "reality" whatsoever ignites fires which Bush's mafia then scurries to "fix". They are operating on an existential basis and time is not on their side.Nur-al-Cubiclehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13240215262850274264noreply@blogger.com