Saturday, September 30, 2006

George Soros on War on Terror

Soros has an excellent blog post on th fallacy of the war on terror:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-soros/a-selfdefeating-war_b_30591.html
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson

In her excellent book, Louise Richardson describes six rules for countering terrorism:
  1. Have a defensible and achievable goal.
  2. Live by your principles.
  3. Know your enemy.
  4. Separate the terrorists from their communities.
  5. Engage others in countering terrorists with you.
  6. Have patience and keep your perspective. (pp. 203-233)

It appears that the present administration is doing almost the opposite of all of these rules. We need to increase our intelligence - in both meanings.

Friday, September 29, 2006

NEWS???

Have you seen the site, Project Censored? It certainly makes an oxymoron out of the word news as we are getting it presently. We know all about a sick guy who did not kill the Benet girl, but almost nothing about important news.
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm