[MadIvan]

Interesting from Andrew. I have to say I liked the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The 1996 one in Atlanta just seemed not quite right.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

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[OldFriend]

A bit too much babbling but the end note says it all. We are indeed lucky to have Blair recognizing the truth of the dangers to the world and willing to stand up and be a true stateman along side our President.

[OBone]

For what it's worth, I thought the opening ceremonies of 1984 were fantastic, but that is beside the point.

I think Tony Blair gained the respect of many Americans when he declared his intention of standing by our side. Not via communique, but he came directly in person. Andrew makes a good point when he states that his party should also support Tony in this respect.

[ckilmer]

The anglosphere is something that I've been mentioning in recent months.

Its something that's been basically taken for granted for 100 years or so--since WWI.

Recently there has been a drift east for the brits, a drift south for the USA and a drift north for the australians.

The great gift of the anglosphere to the world has been relatively good government. A crack up of the anglsophere would mean the quality of government worldwide would decline.

[Nick Danger]

...the Bush administration’s now collapsed policy towards North Korea, an incoherent mix of bluster and appeasement.

Here is something that is worth kicking around. I don't think Sullivan's characterization is unfair. In the matter of Korea, what we have seen is "an incoherent mix of bluster and appeasment."

Given who these people are -- Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc. -- why would anyone suspect that any policy we see coming out of them is caused by incompetence or confusion?

There is a case taught at the Harvard Business School about the son of a company founder who is placed in charge of the purchasing department. He does not have any known expertise in purchasing, and in fact as we tune in is royally screwing up negotiations with the company's largest vendor... one that is critical to their manufacturing process and that they have been doing business with for twenty years.

Now that he's a big-shot purchasing agent, the son is insisting on concessions from this vendor that are, well, irrational. Everyone can see this but him. The manufacturing guy is terrified that the son is going to so piss off this vendor that the vendor will walk away. The vendor's salesman knows everybody in the place, including the founder. He's telling anyone who will listen that his company is willing to be reasonable, but this kid is asking for things that can't be done.

The way this works at Harvard is that everybody yaks about this for an hour, offering up ideas for how to resolve this mess. As with most of these cases, there was a true story behind it, and at the end everybody gets to find out what was really done and what really happened.

What happened here is that the vendor caved, and the company got concessions the previous purchasing agent hadn't won in twenty years. The moral of which is... sometimes when you are negotiating, and you fundamentally have the stronger hand (you're the buyer, not the seller) acting irrationally pays off.

[CyberCowboy777]

Thanks for the post. It is nice to have a few friends in the world.

God Bless the Queen and Prime Minister Blair.

[Mr. Mojo]

Just look at the anti-war demonstrations in America and Europe. “Bomb Texas. I Like Iraq” was a recent slogan.

That protester would last maybe 10 minutes in Iraq.

When you're the king of the hill, you're public enemy #1. ....That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it'll always be.

[xm177e2]

Yet in almost every recent American intervention — in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan — it was for the sake of the security of Muslims that American soldiers risked their lives.

We the first three count, but we did not go into Afghanistan to better the lives of Muslims there. We went in shut down a terrorist network and destroy a regime at war with us. We did help Muslims along the way, but that's not why we were there.

[GirlShortstop]

 
There is something truly sickening in the sight of people who call themselves liberals finding more fault in America than in the brutal, misogynist and anti-semitic dictatorships now pitted against the West.

Nice!   Good article and synopsis of the hate that burns in the hearts of Anti-Americans.

[lawgirl]

There is something truly sickening in the sight of people who call themselves liberals finding more fault in America than in the brutal, misogynist and anti-semitic dictatorships now pitted against the West.

This is fabulous.

[BunnySlippers]

Nice find, Ivan. I'm saving this one.

[Brimack34]

As far as North Korea goes: Why not make China, South Korea, Russia and Japan clean up there own mess? The middle east has nobody so we are there.

[uncbuck]

Another excellent post Ivan. Again, when does the UK join the US as one nation?

[Stultis]

But in recently liberated Afghanistan the Americans have done all they can to set up an indigenous government and are pouring millions of dollars into reconstruction.

Make that hundreds of millions, $800M+ I believe since 911, and $173M+ plus even in the year before 911. In the following thread see additional links starting in message #9:

Humanitarian Work Progressing in Afghanistan

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I saw Blair tonight on the weekly "Questions" on C-SPAN and he was GREAT!!