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Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
 CSM. US standing with Arabs hits an all time low. This is the reason that bin Laden's guerrillas have an unlimited pool of recruits to draw from. It also indicates that this war is going to get much, much worse over the next decade or two. Just two years ago, Zogby found that 76 percent of Egyptians had an unfavorable impression of the US. Today, that number is 98 percent. The Zogby poll indicates that anger at recent US policies (not our way of life -- as anonymous points out in Imperial Hubris) accounts for the bulk of the decline. In part, that's due to the recent growth of Arab satellite news channels, which beam regional footage of Israeli and US operations to tens of millions of homes (note: these channels have played a vital part in elevating national insurgencies into global guerrilla war).
12:27:01 PM 
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A direct parallel with the Vietnam war and the USSR's misadventures in Afghanistan is that we are likely backing weak governments that may never be strong enough to survive on their own. AT does a round-up of the problems recruiting soldiers for the armies that back those governments.
11:30:52 AM
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IHT. Filipinos still want to work in Iraq despite the government ban on new deployments. Anglo-European Services Inc., a Manila company that recruits Filipinos employs most of the 4,000 people working in US military facilities in Iraq.
11:10:14 AM
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I'm almost finished reading Imperial Hubris by the CIA's Anonymous. Excellent book and well worth reading. It fits with Global Guerrillas tongue and groove.
10:08:28 AM
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Maybe I missed something here, but when did all protesters get redefined as anarchists? Also, is the idea of protests by a upset minority dead, given the high-tech containment methods demonstrated by the NYPD?
9:47:33 AM
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Chris Lydon on Nelson Rockefeller's party. Interesting read. The Goldwater/Reagan/Buchanan wing is in cryogenic storage.
9:30:58 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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