I figured it out on my own last night. I woke up and figured it out all by myself. 
Charlton Heston: From my cold, dead hands!......
Posted on 08/19/2002 10:59:30 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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The Scowcroft Group is managed directly by Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Bush and Ford. Our principals bring extensive experience in business and government coupled with extraordinary regional expertise in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Our team of professionals has demonstrated prowess in the political economy of emerging markets, and strong ties to key decision-makers.
Our resources are our people, in Washington D.C. and abroad. Our principals and network of consultants reach into governments and businesses, enabling us to represent clients in virtually every market in the world, drawing upon local as well as global resources. Our strategic partners and affiliates provide unique business insight, in-country support, and timely value-added information. Our strength is in our ability to utilize these resources effectively and act decisively; equipping our clients with the best possible tools for success.
Our principal members are:
Brent Scowcroft Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. Alan Hegburg Arnold Kanter Virginia A. Lampley Eric D. K. Melby Kevin G. Nealer Daniel B. Poneman Joel L. Shin David M. Sloan
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The spread of market economies, global reordering of political relationships, and proliferation of the Internet, present extraordinary business opportunities and challenges. Success in this new business environment requires in-depth knowledge and extensive first-hand experience in the world's most important emerging economies. The Scowcroft Group is an international business advisory firm that combines these unique capabilities with a commitment to help businesses grow and succeed in the rapidly evolving international marketplace. By offering a wide range of services and area expertise tailored to meet individual client needs, The Scowcroft Group supports the client at every stage of strategic planning, risk management, market development and ongoing operations.
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3. Saudi Arabia Will Dump U.S. & Dollar Investments - While the Saudi military is negligible except for their early warning system and air force, they are somewhat protected by the Holy places in Mecca and Medina. Any invasion by U.S. troops even near these regions would set off Armageddon in the Middle East so that option is out. Brent Scowcroft, who advised a string of Republican presidents, including Mr Bush's father and one of the Republican party's most...
This is classic: "Any invasion by U.S. troops even near these regions would set off Armageddon in the Middle East so that option is out." Can't have Armageddon being set off.
I read with interest Scowcroft's self-serving op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal advising against an invasion of Iraq. Understand something. Brent Scowcroft is the head of The Scowcroft Group, a consultancy that advises business on international investments. Nothing would be worse for his clients' business than armed conflict and the uncertainty that roils the financial markets with war. That obviously self-serving piece will not affect administration policy and promotes select business interests over United States strategic interests.
PBS Frontline profiled Saddam Hussein's rise to power. It showed his library arranged as a shrine to Joseph Stalin. It ran tape of his purge of random members of the leadership before an auditorium of assembled Ba'ath Party aparatchiks.
Defending Saddam is indeed defending Stalin.
The New York Times excels as trash liner. It has many sections, many pages, absorbs wet coffee grounds, resists the slings and arrows of bottles, jars, and cans.
The Times is an excellent mirror on reality: Reality is Always the Opposite of the Times
The Times meets or exceeds its motto:
I figured it out on my own last night. I woke up and figured it out all by myself.
Congratulations Meekster; good job !!
FMCDH !!
John Derbyshire has a great realistic suggestion of what to do with the Islamakazi Cockroaches in charge of Iraq!
LOL ! Thanks, folks !
Some small discussion of the utility of intellectuals, but the dead horse in the living room is the unbelievable arrogance of the man who believes Saddam Hussein can be managed.
The Derbyshire piece ought to be read for the snapshot of Scowcroft toasting Li Peng and the other Tiananmen Square butchers.
Lost in the nose-on-the-ground bean-counting of odd, odd reptiles like Scowcroft is the dismembered-body-in-the-bag aspect of the Saddams, the Hitlers, the Li Pengs.
Enough of the elite-for-hire pronunciamentos of the Dire Consequences of Unilateralism.
Now is not the time to a) go wobbly; b) sleep with the gerbils; c) observe the silence of the lambs--
Now is the time to harvest the head of Saddam Hussein.
Let it be cast in an acrylic cube as paperweight on the Oval Office desk In box.
Leaving room for Arafat on the Out.
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