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Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
 Thomas Barnett: our war with the Islamic world is over the rights of women. There isn't any other major difference.
4:06:08 PM 
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Tom Barnett's lecture is up on CSPAN. He explains why Wall Street (and the technology community) is more interested in my research than anyone else (political/DoD/etc.). Their "rule sets" are years ahead of the rest of the "rule sets" in operation in those other venues. Frankly, my research is going to make some people lots and lots of money.
9:11:45 AM
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WP. "Experts" now negative on Iraq. Before the war, predictions by even the most skeptical Bush administration critics did not include scenarios of escalating violence this long after the invasion, or of the U.S. military issuing a news release such as the one it sent out Tuesday morning, headlined "Fighting Continues in Eastern Baghdad." In addition, several cities near Baghdad have slipped from U.S. control in recent months and have become "no-go zones" for U.S. troops. "No one that I know of, to include the most pessimistic experts, predicted a full-scale insurgency would break out within a couple of months of the overthrow of the old regime," said Steven Metz, a guerrilla warfare expert at the Army War College.
This demonstrates the bankruptcy of the analysis done by the current "experts" on the war. Analysts like Max Boot, Anthony Cordesman, etc. are operating on assumptions years out of date (they are still wrong about where this is going). Too bad that most of the media (from NPR to the NYTimes), the DoD, the CIA, the Washington beltway thinktanks, etc. continue to promote their flawed research.
7:59:48 AM
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Reuters. The JI provides Australia with its first pre-election strike.
7:28:22 AM
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WT. Instead of an ally in the war on terror, Russia has been transformed into a unilateralist ready to militarily pre-empt terror attacks globally. Of course, this was already going on (the assassination of a Chechen leader in Qatar is an example). However, this signals a radical increase in activity.
7:20:32 AM
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WSJ. My War's CBFTW.
7:03:07 AM
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