Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Kissinger on an exit from Iraq Henry A. Kissinger: "Since every turning point occurs in some finite time period, a key test of policy-making is when to schedule the seminal decisions. The debate over withdrawal from Iraq hinges on such a question. The administration and its critics seem to agree that the beginning of American withdrawal will mark a turning point. Unresolved are the speed and extent of the drawdown and whether it should be driven by a fixed timetable or by a strategy seeking to shape events." Thanks to The Moderate Voice for the link. Bull Moose: "The Moose makes a geo-political new years prediction. Unless the world gets serious about the Iranian nuclear threat, Israel will take the matter into its own hands in the coming year. Last week, Mohammed El Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency sent out the alarm that if Iran resumed its uranium enrichment program it would be only a few months before Iran had the bomb. It appears that the belief that the Teheran mullahs were still a decade away from going nuclear was a wee bit optimistic." Category: 2008 Presidential Election 8:36:22 PM

Immigration Reform? State legislators from across the West are in Denver to discuss immigration issues, according to the Denver Post [December 13, 2005, "Immigrants focus of panel"]. From the article, "The bipartisan panel of legislators from Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and Utah say immigration - particularly the flow of undocumented workers - has become one of the public's top concerns, and the group hopes to influence federal solutions. In Colorado, a ballot proposal to limit services to undocumented immigrants is in the works. While there are many points of view on the issue, said Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, most lawmakers agree they must focus on those who hire undocumented workers...The day-long Regional Conference on Immigration brought experts on immigration issues to the Capitol, including representatives from the Pew Hispanic Center and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The event was coordinated by the National Council of State Legislators." Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News [December 13, 2005, "Lesson on illegal immigration"]. Here's Part V of the Rocky's series on global warming [December 13, 2005, "Change in the air Part 5: Vital signs"]. They write, "Around the world, scientists are looking for biological red flags, signs that global warming is already affecting high-altitude plants and animals and could imperil fragile mountaintop ecosystems. In the Colorado high country, that work includes studies of three seemingly unrelated phenomena: the shifting hibernation pattern of marmots, subtle changes at the forest tree line, and the chemical fingerprint of mountaintop air molecules trapped in glass flasks. Results from all three research efforts, examined in this special section, suggest that life in the Colorado Rockies is already responding to climate change, though some scientists question the findings." NewMexiKen: "Best line of the day so far: 'This weekend, a Democratic National Committee task force on presidential primaries and caucuses issued its recommendations for the 2008 calendar. Unfortunately, the group didn't have the power to make the change that would do Democrats the most good, which would be to have the 2008 election right now.'" Category: 2008 Presidential Election 6:21:34 AM

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