What you really need to know.

What is going on in Iran? Space rockets for scientific research?

High school physics, a little detective work and we can prove the contrary.

SCUD????

Brining Containment Back.

As the policy think tanks in Washington as well as thousands of organizations, private citizens, and crack pots throw in their views on the "Axis of Evil" and what the US should do about this new wave of terror, we must not forget our history of evil empires.
Ian Shapiro's makes a very convincing argument about the rehashing of the Cold War policy of containment by X, George Kennan

Kennan was convinced that arguing with the Soviets was a waste of time. The United States should focus, he believed, on what our enemies did rather than what they said, assuming they would act in response to their interests, not to our arguments. And it works.

Action based on interests, a rationality policy, a policy to which in the new era of global politics does not fit well with the scare tactics of anti "radical Islam" policy. Argument leads no to policy, no action and endless rhetoric. Rhetoric which wins elections, but hardly maintain any semblance of national security. Anarchy within our international system is the driving force behind actions, no one country can dominate the world, set the global agenda, and maintain any of it.
With out this rationality the US and its foreign policy is doomed to spend the rest of its existence frozen within the era of US dominance through its allies. As globalization breaks free the necessity if US involvements within the national economy of its allies, gaps will develop. These gaps in US want and ally need, will create a vast sink hole in US based foreign policy.

Containment is not obsolete. The Bush doctrine is

Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Russian president Putin's critique of US foreign policy, and what the US had to say about it.

Lock the doors.

Hide the children.

Place all your bets.

Come out swinging.

Its a flash, duck and cover!

A few weeks ago, I made a post reflecting on the missile delivery system delivered to the nation of Iran by the Russian federation. I guess that the system got there.

Iranian state television on Wednesday showed several missiles from the TOR-M1 system being fired in the desert from mobile vehicle launchers and then successfully taking out their targets in the sky.

The United States was quick to respond to the 29 unit contract by the Iranian government.

"We don't think that it's an appropriate signal to be sending ... particularly when they are under UN sanctions for trying to develop a nuclear weapon, and when they continue to be in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions," deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said in January.

With the current level of over the Iranian nuclear program and with the US at the edge of no- mans-land of that tension, the addition of these defensive measures to protect Iranian air space is something to be followed. Iranian rhetoric is reaching the point of no return, conflict might not be too far off in an assumption. The leaders in Iran know that conflict with the US could be a possibility and as a result they are gearing up for a possible attack. As the "Decision Maker" is making the best decisions for our National Security, ( remember this?) conflict within a second theater could be a possibility. Ill see you in the draft line.

"Imagine a September eleventh with weapons of mass destruction. It's not three thousand – it's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

President Bush
United Nations General Assembly, New York
September 12, 2002

Fear Fear Fear.
The Cold War never dies, it just takes a new persona.

www. terrorist know google. com

As reported in the Telegraph.

Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.


Google used as a weapon of war. The information revolution used by the revolutionaries.

Great Conversation

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7097114833602283925&q=bernard+henry+levy

A great episode of the Charlie Rose program, a great conversation with Bernard Henry Levy at the second half. Covering topics of non-reported conflicts around the world.