"Five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists" lose it | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: "Five of the west's most senior military (4.00 / 7)

Bernhard at MoonofAlabama takes a hard look at who backs the generals:

M of A - 'Certainty' On the Neocon NATO Report

Yesterday's post speculated about neocon influence on the report that urges an imperial NATO strategy. There now is "an increase in certainty" that pure neocon thinking is at the base of the proposal.
While the media reported only yesterday about the report, it had been launched on January 10 at the US Center of Strategic Studies. The 150-page paper is titled Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World - Renewing Transatlantic Partnership (pdf).
The report by the five former NATO generals was financed through "generous sponsorship" of the Dutch Noaber Foundation. The foundation is the private fiefdom of the Christian fundamentalist Paul Baan, a failed 1990s "new market" entrepreneur.
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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 11:09:01 AM EST

Another discussion (4.00 / 2)

took place in that frontpage post a couple days ago: Doctors Strangelove everywhere

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 02:06:11 PM EST
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Re: Another discussion (4.00 / 2)

In particular, this translation of an Izvestia analysis by Anthony Williamson is worth reading.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 02:09:40 PM EST
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Re: Another discussion (none / 0)

Ah damn... I wasn't paying attention (been moving around a lot these past days running to meet deadlines), just saw it today. Sorry for the double post. My bad.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Thu Jan 24th, 2008 at 04:12:56 PM EST
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Re: Another discussion (4.00 / 3)

talos, your diary is excellent! Thank you very much for writing it and thanks to Migeru for frontpaging it!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 07:09:17 PM EST
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Re: Another discussion (none / 1)

It is amazing how the same topic can be discussed in two different places and produce such disparate--and equally interesting-- results.
I'm glad we did this second visit to an important (but nasty) neighborhood.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 09:03:41 AM EST
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"Five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists" lose it | 29 comments (29 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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