Archive for November 22nd, 2006
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Some Carving Advice
Apparently some people have trouble carving turkeys. Between having had experience as line and prep cook in my teens (where I dealt with large numbers of roasted fowl), and my repressed surgical impulses (loved, loved, LOVED dissecting), I’ve become designated carver for all family occasions. Some words of advice:
1) Never try to cut through […]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Perceived permanence is the provocation
From WorldPublicOpinion.org’s recent survey:
All Shias polled in Baghdad (100%) believe that the U.S. military presence is “provoking more conflict than it is preventing.” Outside of Baghdad, this view is slightly less common: 74 percent of Shias in the rest of the country say the presence of U.S. troops provokes conflict while 25 percent say the […]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Where the Anarchy Came From
Also, from The New York Times, April 12, 2003, Editorial:
Military officials have reason to be reluctant about performing police duties. Their troops are trained to fight a war, not to arrest bank robbers or stop muggings. They are unfamiliar with Iraqi culture and do not speak Arabic. There are bound to be threatening and unpleasant […]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Meanwhile, that same day
The New York Times, April 12, 2003, Editorial:
War and Peace; Triumph on the Battlefield
The swift military victory in Iraq has raised a critical question for the future of armed combat: Has the United States attained a new level of proficiency that will transform the nature of battle much as the machine gun, the tank and […]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Anarchy — another early warning
From an Al Jazeera editorial, April 12, 2003:
It is just four days since Baghdad started to fall to the Americans; even now, the city is still not completely in US hands. Given that reality, the comments from parts of the international media, echoed by humanitarian agencies and the UN, that US forces should have re-established […]
