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Posted on 07/10/2006 9:24:50 AM PDT by croak
Dogs of war incline toward caution, which after all is how they grew up to be dogs. More worrisome are puppies, who do not know what danger is. Gavrilo Princeps, the Serbian gunman who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand dead in June 1914, was a puppy. So are the Hamas kidnappers, who at this writing still hold Israeli Army Corporal Gilad Shalit, and the Mehdi Army shooters who reportedly disposed of several dozen Sunni civilians in Baghdad on the weekend. The North Koreans, by contrast, are just nasty old dogs who long ago got loose from their leash.
Wars start because no one wants to disown his dog. If your dog bites a neighbor, your neighbor well might come after you with
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
"Spengler", whatever his true identity, is always excellent reading.
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If we would just kick A$$ from the superior position we hold, these non~Alpha dogs would behave like the hush-puppies the were born to be!
Somebody send that column to the White House or the DOD. It's an amazing wrap-up of the situation we face.
In fact, the author makes a very interesting case for a wider war breaking out because countries like Iran and NK have poor control over their minions (front-line terrorist lunatics).
PBS (I believe) had a show a while ago called "Commanding Heights" which did a good job showing how global the economy was prior to WWI. This period is sometimes called the Second Industrial Revolution and was a time of great growth and sophistication. Much of that was swept away by WWI. Then the Depression. And WWII. And the Cold War. We've got a lot of it back now -- but we could lose it again.
IMHO, this is what the oil price rise is forshadowing.....
Concur, concur, and concur. And it is a scary scenario.
Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel.
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Saudi Arabia, by the same token, cannot abandon its Sunni brethren in Iraq by acquiescing to an Iranian power play,
As far as I know every Shia cleric of any repute has said over and over they want nothing to do withTehran.
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