What about U.S. plans to double the size of its embassy to 18,000? What do they do? How often do they leave their plush prison and with what kind of retinue?
How often does the Iraqi parliament meet? How often with a quorum? How many members live in Iraq?
Nice priorities. USG is about to shut down. Millions unemployed & on food stamps in U.S. Thousands in U.S. die every day owing to lack of medical care. But U.S. has $100 million/day (not including the $30 million plane that crashed) for some adventure in a country it knows nothing about.
Speed with which Egypt fell??? Hasn't regime been in place since 1952? Ditto some of the other regimes in the ME. Versus only since 1979 for the Iranian regime. Not sclerotic enough yet to be pushed over.
Juan, Thanks for all your work and perspective on Egypt.
Can you recommend any history books? I'm interested in both the long version (not so much the ancient history, although I don't know a lot about that either), esp the transition to Islam, and much more detail on post-WWII. Esp the details of the 'peace' with Israel. From what I'm picking up on al Jazeera, it sounds like the terms Israel got were completely humiliating toward Egypt.
That would also explain why Abbas gave into everything & still couldn't get a country out of it. Israel hadn't humiliated him & the Palestinians enough.
The real villain is the U.S. political system, now owned by all the dysfunctional corps of the U.S. economy, like big media, med. ins. corps., PhRMA, energy, etc.
How this subject got onto a your blog, Juan, I do not know. However, it is near & dear to my heart. I got a bee hive in June 2009. It swarmed twice in 2010, and my bee keeper ( http://honeybeelives.org/ ) captured the second one, so now I have two hives. I love my bee girls. All organic. Got 12 jars of honey this year, but as Chris (bee keeper) sez: It's not about the honey, it's about the bees.
Why am I not surprised that pesticide producers hide their contributions to 'studies,' and that corp media no longer probe such connections. The U.S. system gets more corrupt by the minute.
Agree with earlier comments that the renditions make this project look like an architectural horror show that is totally removed from any kind of human touch.
How much help would it be if the U.S. donated all the money it is using for drone attacks and base protection in Pakistan, instead of having bases & doing drone attacks? How much help would it be if the Pakistan military left the Taliban alone & used their resources for flood relief. Just now on democracynow, the Pakistani guest is talking about a city of 900,000 that got flooded because of diversion of water and resources from U.S. air base. Seems to me that sort of help should come first, both for practical purposes & as an example of how serious the national leadership views their own problems, before external resources are solicited. Why should non-Paks & U.S. citizens take Pak flood problems more seriously than our govts do?
Iraqis and Afghans have never had trouble fighting effectively. Can some one 'splain to me why U.S. trainers are still needed after all these years? (Rhetorical Q.)
Now that the 'last combat troops have left Iraq' you'll never see anymore coverage of Iraq on the U.S. corp media. That's the only point of the exercise. Nothing to see here. Move along. Not even if civil war breaks out again will Iraq ever appear in a U.S. headline.
I was under the impression that O gave Bibi a green light during his visit. O's words to the effect of: Israel has to do what is in its national interest. Coupled with Bibi's mockery of U.S. foreign policy being in Israel's pocket. Near as I can tell, O never met a war he didn't like, having expanded the GWOT to new geographic areas beyond W. (Despite the 25 terror related deaths in the U.S. last year and the 4 in Israel. Yep, those devastating numbers truly required expanding wars, you betcha.)
So if the Taliban are on the run, does that mean the U.S. has to stay as long as it takes to finish them off?
What about U.S. plans to double the size of its embassy to 18,000? What do they do? How often do they leave their plush prison and with what kind of retinue?
How often does the Iraqi parliament meet? How often with a quorum? How many members live in Iraq?
What part of the Syrian uprising is instigated by U.S. and Israel?
Nice priorities. USG is about to shut down. Millions unemployed & on food stamps in U.S. Thousands in U.S. die every day owing to lack of medical care. But U.S. has $100 million/day (not including the $30 million plane that crashed) for some adventure in a country it knows nothing about.
How many civilian casualties have there been in Bahrain since the NFZ in Libya was established? How many imprisonments? Ditto Yemen, Syria.
How many civilian casualties have there been in the x (6?) days since the NFZ and how many were there in the x days before?
And why is this not Iraq NFZ 1991? Which solidified SH's power, ravaged the population, and helped foster AQ?
Speed with which Egypt fell??? Hasn't regime been in place since 1952? Ditto some of the other regimes in the ME. Versus only since 1979 for the Iranian regime. Not sclerotic enough yet to be pushed over.
Juan,
I'd appreciate your evaluation of these:
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article26106.html
And here's the 2008 RAND report on Kefaya [PDF]
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG778.sum.pdf
Well done!
Juan, Thanks for all your work and perspective on Egypt.
Can you recommend any history books? I'm interested in both the long version (not so much the ancient history, although I don't know a lot about that either), esp the transition to Islam, and much more detail on post-WWII. Esp the details of the 'peace' with Israel. From what I'm picking up on al Jazeera, it sounds like the terms Israel got were completely humiliating toward Egypt.
That would also explain why Abbas gave into everything & still couldn't get a country out of it. Israel hadn't humiliated him & the Palestinians enough.
The villain is Comcast only in the first order.
The real villain is the U.S. political system, now owned by all the dysfunctional corps of the U.S. economy, like big media, med. ins. corps., PhRMA, energy, etc.
Good-bye internet.
$20 billion in arms sales. The U.S. should be proud. /snark.
So Juan, what's Merkel's real agenda?
How this subject got onto a your blog, Juan, I do not know. However, it is near & dear to my heart. I got a bee hive in June 2009. It swarmed twice in 2010, and my bee keeper ( http://honeybeelives.org/ ) captured the second one, so now I have two hives. I love my bee girls. All organic. Got 12 jars of honey this year, but as Chris (bee keeper) sez: It's not about the honey, it's about the bees.
Why am I not surprised that pesticide producers hide their contributions to 'studies,' and that corp media no longer probe such connections. The U.S. system gets more corrupt by the minute.
Agree with earlier comments that the renditions make this project look like an architectural horror show that is totally removed from any kind of human touch.
How much help would it be if the U.S. donated all the money it is using for drone attacks and base protection in Pakistan, instead of having bases & doing drone attacks? How much help would it be if the Pakistan military left the Taliban alone & used their resources for flood relief. Just now on democracynow, the Pakistani guest is talking about a city of 900,000 that got flooded because of diversion of water and resources from U.S. air base. Seems to me that sort of help should come first, both for practical purposes & as an example of how serious the national leadership views their own problems, before external resources are solicited. Why should non-Paks & U.S. citizens take Pak flood problems more seriously than our govts do?
"new, American-installed order in Iraq." ???
Iraqis and Afghans have never had trouble fighting effectively. Can some one 'splain to me why U.S. trainers are still needed after all these years? (Rhetorical Q.)
Now that the 'last combat troops have left Iraq' you'll never see anymore coverage of Iraq on the U.S. corp media. That's the only point of the exercise. Nothing to see here. Move along. Not even if civil war breaks out again will Iraq ever appear in a U.S. headline.
I was under the impression that O gave Bibi a green light during his visit. O's words to the effect of: Israel has to do what is in its national interest. Coupled with Bibi's mockery of U.S. foreign policy being in Israel's pocket. Near as I can tell, O never met a war he didn't like, having expanded the GWOT to new geographic areas beyond W. (Despite the 25 terror related deaths in the U.S. last year and the 4 in Israel. Yep, those devastating numbers truly required expanding wars, you betcha.)
Well, except that the remaining U.S. troops apparently ARE combat troops, just name changed. http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/63159
Also check out Scahill on democracynow.org this morning.