Tuesday, February 11, 2003

[Colin Glassey] A Compendium of Nearly Useless Information Here is a web site (Art with an Attitude) that contains information only of interest to people like me who might someday need the names of the Celtic gods :-) 2:28:36 PM     [Colin Glassey] Dan Pipes on What Next? Here is Danial Pipes on the current debate, After Saddam?. Pipes describes the two major options in one corner: Fouad Ajami at Johns Hopkins who writes: Above and beyond toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein and dismantling its deadly weapons, the driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world. In the other corner we have Andrew Bacevich, at Boston College who argues that the United States should confine its attention to Iraq itself and not make grand plans to bring democracy to the Arabs. Put another way: which example from history should we follow? Germany, Japan, South Korea post World War II? Or Vietnam post 1960? Like Dan Pipes, I'm firmly in the more than Iraq camp. Here is a quote from Stephan Ambrose's last book To America: I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education, women's rights, freedom of relgion, democracy, an openness to all ethnic groups, the will to admit that terrible mistakes have been made - slavery, imperialism, segragation - and a determination to correct those mistakes. Its time to extend this American ideology to the rest of the world. 12:59:33 PM     [Colin Glassey] May You Live in Interesting Times This is a Chinese curse (of sorts). We are indeed living in interesting times. Its scary and depressing also. Last week I said that NATO was dead. Yesterday that was proved when Belgium (supported by France and Germany) blocked the planning for movement of equipment to help protect Turkey from Iraq. How can Germany, France and Belgium be so stupid as to work to destroy NATO? It boggles the mind. Did they get nothing from NATO over the last 50 years? Here is a short comment from Wax Tadpole in which he quotes a German former General Klaus Naumann. Here is an update from Eamonn Fitzgerald who works in Muich. I'm saddened by the breakdown of NATO. Here is some speculation by Admiral Quixote, based on speculation by Steve Den Beste. However, all things must pass. And the truth is the French, the Belgians, and Germans are just hurting themselves by blowing up NATO (or at least their membership in it). 11:07:18 AM     [Colin Glassey] Hail Caesar Two pseudo-blogs have been created lately, one is the supposed blog of Julius Caesar as he conquers France. The other pseudo-blog is that of Samuel Pepys. Both are interesting historial blogs. The Pepys blog is historically accurate (a rendition of his diary). The Caesar blog is more of an invention. On the other hand, Caesar had a rather more interesting life. 10:43:44 AM

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