tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post1139958256513363009..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, UkraineEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-10958384810392810232015-06-08T19:01:30.491-04:002015-06-08T19:01:30.491-04:00I'd rate the defusing of Qaddafi's effort...I'd rate the defusing of Qaddafi's effort to clone Pakistan's nuclear program ahead of dismatling what he got up to on CBW.<br /><br />He paid A.K.Khan a lot of money, and even more land THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-13310559249507090032015-06-08T17:33:36.241-04:002015-06-08T17:33:36.241-04:00Guess I should clarify re the red line comment - n...Guess I should clarify re the red line comment - no it's not a victory comparable to Tunisia's democratization, but compared to the scale of the problem it faced, which was the potential reintroduction of chemical weapons as useful weapon of war, it was a tremendous victory. <br /><br />People who say Obama's statement was a mistake and that the aftermath went poorly for the US or the world are completely failing to examine the issue.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09301230860904555513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-74452071746771751382015-06-08T17:20:43.938-04:002015-06-08T17:20:43.938-04:00The problem is drought.
At constant rain, if temp...The problem is drought.<br /><br />At constant rain, if temperature goes up, then there is drought.<br />At constant temperature and precipitation, if there are more sheep and goat grazing, then there is drought.<br /><br />People can smell rain far, far away. In the old days, many of the tribes were nomadic - they went where the rain was. Now they cannot.<br /><br />All that is needed for a war is hungry young men. <br /><br />For a while, oil money bought food. Now, two generations later, there are more hungry young men. <br /><br />As for Ukraine, it is much better farmland than most of what Russia has, and anyone with a surplus of food has many friends in the Middle-East.<br /><br />In a time of global warming; food, and the water to grow it is the bottom line.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150805906414546377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-84692180420209436562015-06-08T12:02:12.775-04:002015-06-08T12:02:12.775-04:00Foreign policy posts risk running into climatolog...Foreign policy posts risk running into climatology these days<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow"> http://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2015/06/o-what-beautiful-world </a>THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-41194664498037624792015-06-08T07:50:45.993-04:002015-06-08T07:50:45.993-04:00I too don't buy no-chem-weapons as a major suc...I too don't buy no-chem-weapons as a major success. A minor one, yes, but no more.William M. Connolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836299130680534926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-76396208435055287782015-06-08T04:53:39.518-04:002015-06-08T04:53:39.518-04:00I would point out that Libya is so far looking lik...I would point out that Libya is so far looking like an EU failure. Look at the starting position - a country with a small population, factions generally separated into well-separated cities, some chance of keeping border control, generally hopeful of a transition to something better. We [as in the EU] should have gone in in numbers, with, ideally, somewhere like Norway taking a visible lead.<br /><br />Instead we just left them to it. Now we have militants in place, boat people turning up, all the usual stuff. <br /><br /> Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02729454651003425550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-79010534377128258302015-06-08T03:55:59.229-04:002015-06-08T03:55:59.229-04:00Obama has been a little better than bush, but Syri...Obama has been a little better than bush, but Syria is a complete screw up. I don't buy that chemical weapons "benefit", it's pure bs on your part. The USA is bound to fail because it interferes too much very far away from home, has zero human rights compass, , fails to engage close to home, and is bound in chains by the Israel lobby. <br /><br />I'm afraid the American people won't figure out what's going on until the country self destructs just like prior imperial powers. Fernando Leanmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085680730729620836noreply@blogger.com