| Shop and awe |
Winds of Change notes, "The most powerful things we have in America are not our military. The most powerful things we have are our markets..." and quotes Intel-dump.com:So, four years after 9/11, why did our government spend so much political energy promoting CAFTA while ignoring trade with the Greater Middle East? Is the economic development of Guatemala more important than Pakistan? And why aren't we demanding that the Europeans open up to agriculture imports? Currently the Iraqi and Afghani economies are clawing their way back into life. When they re-enter the global economic stage, will they run aground on Western trade policy? Read the rest. |
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Posted by Stephen Waters on 3/2/06; 9:47:02 AM
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| Weapon of the Weak |
| Editorial cartoonists Cox and Forkum explain that the "challenge was to depict a fear of physical harm from the TV's imagery, as opposed to merely a desire to avoid viewing it. They quote The Intellectual Activist publisher Robert Tracinski who writes: |  |
Terrorism is the weapon of those who are weak -- weak materially, weak in numbers, weak in ideological support. And precisely for that reason, terrorism is a weak weapon, an ineffective tactic that does not actually empower its perpetrators to achieve any substantial military objective. Read the rest. |
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Posted by Stephen Waters on 3/2/06; 9:24:55 AM
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