Iraq Reviews > Iraq the place and Iraq the abstraction

Global Dashboardhttp://www.globaldashboard.org/public-diplomacy/iraq-the-place-and-iraq-the-abstraction/ [Global Dashboard] They wanted to know what it was like “over there.” I began to describe a Shiite doctor I’d gotten to know, who felt torn between gratitude and fear that occupation and chaos were making Iraq less Islamic. A burst of invective interrupted my sketch: none of it mattered””the only thing that mattered was this immoral, criminal war.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

vetvoice - Front Page[vetvoice - Front Page] Spinning the War in Iraq: The British DID call American revolutionaries names like that-- (

http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/shelby-steele-white-guilt-war-hussein-obama/ [What Do You Believe?] Shelby Steele, White Guilt, War & Obama: Unlike Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, characterized by Shelby Steele as “bluffers and haranguers,” and, one might add, extortionists who trade in White guilt for personal gain, Obama is more of a “bargainer.” His appeal to White America is that he is not overtly trading on White guilt but at the same time he and his aides know that White America seeks moral legitimacy, and his bargain is in promising to provide such legitimacy in exchange for power. It is far more sophisticated a bargain than previous Black leaders have had with White America.

loan guide blog[loan guide blog] A BUNCH OF GOOD NEWS ABOUT IRAQ: "They’ve had to verify whatever instance to intend their blazonry around it."The Asian polity has united to go along with the alliances on the aggregation that topical fighters are ease brought into Iraq’s land forces.Iraq’s army, organisation and additional land forces exist of 346,500 drilled personnel, according to the Pentagon.Robeson said U.S. officials hit been certain to oppose the strategy in a artefact that doesn’t threaten Iraq’s government.U.S. officers feature the shitting haw be a motion saucer in efforts to finish the insurgency. The U.S. military’s newborn effort drill emphasizes the grandness of depriving insurgents of unstoppered support."This is a science agitate in what’s circumstance in Iraq,"

Redstate - Conservative News and Communityhttp://www.redstate.com/stories/liberals/nuancing_neville_democrat_style [Redstate - Conservative News and Community] Nuancing Neville - Democrat Style: "Admiral Michael Mullen's testimony before Congress today that our troops are 'significantly stressed' by operations in Iraq and Afghanistan underscores the national security threat posed by the President's failed Iraq policy. Admiral Mullen's warning that 'the pace of ongoing operations has prevented our forces from fully training for the full spectrum of operations and impacts our ability to be ready to counter future threats' should make clear that the issue of military readiness is not an abstract concept, but a timely and critical serious threat to the safety of the American people.

Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq[Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq] Where Is the outrage 66 - The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine ...: General Richard Myers, another former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has claimed that if [Islamic] terrorists were able to kill 10,000 Americans in a nuclear attack, they would "do away with our way of life". But Hiroshima and Nagasaki incurred well over 100,000 instant deaths and that did not mean the end of the Japanese way of life.

http://onequietguy75.dustdiary.com/2008/01/30/how-about-another-carrot-part-i/ [Iraq Bush World States United] How About Another Carrot?, Part I: This adroit massaging of the system at least partially explains counterintuitive facts such as this one noted by Cook: although many Arab countries are already awash in civic organizations (according to one study conducted in the late 1990s, Egypt alone boasts some 19,000 of them), these countries remain oppressive. It should also be noted that many of the regimes in question are known to allow for, if not openly encourage, a certain amount of anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism, and coddling of religious extremism in order to deflect negative attention outward, and provide release valves for mounting tension.

Electric Politicshttp://www.electricpolitics.com/2008/02/natos_kosovo_colony_independen.html [Electric Politics] NATO's Kosovo Colony: Independence in the Brave New World Order: Ensconced in their gigantic "Camp Bondsteel", they control the strategic routes from Serbia to Greece, and incidentally offer the mass of unemployed Kosovo Albanians their best-paying employment opportunities, notably by taking menial and dangerous jobs serving U.S. forces in Iraq or Afghanistan.

http://scottgardner.livejournal.com/148954.html [Scott] scottgardner @ 2008-02-12T13:01:00: The Bush Administration planned for an attack against Iraq before September 11th, 2001. They used the false pretense of an imminent nuclear, chemical and biological weapons threat to deceive Congress into rationalizing this unnecessary conflict.

The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europehttp://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2964 [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] The Immorality of Moral Universalism: On one level, Miliband’s and Blair’s invocation of morality in justification of horrible acts of war is simply the sign of a psychotic personality - what one Iraq expert called to advise the then Prime Minister before the invasion of Iraq, “a strange combination of moral fervour and cynicism”. At a deeper level, however, I believe that double standards and hypocrisy are the inevitable results of any policy based on abstract, universal values.

John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Reviewhttp://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/newsroom/johnbrown_detail/080202_pdpbr/ [John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review] Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review, February 1-2, 2008: Cunningham looks briefly and selectively at framing literature and media framing choices in the decision to go to war in Iraq. He proposes that news organizations employ “rhetoric reporters” to research the history and use of words .

http://satyagraha.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/reply-to-bin-laden/ [Satyagraha: Peace Psychology Blog of John Uebersax] Reply to bin Laden: Yet other times you seem to blame the American people themselves for complicity in the Iraq war, and for the injustices of capitalistic imperialism generally. In any case, it seems that one of your expressed purposes is to drive a wedge between the American people and their government.

Serbian News Network - SNNhttp://www.antic.org/Weblog/2008/02/immorality-of-moral-universalism.html [Serbian News Network - SNN] The Immorality of Moral Universalism: Iraq, “a strange combination of moral fervour and cynicism”. At a deeper level, however, I believe that double standards and hypocrisy are the inevitable results of any policy based on abstract, universal values.

Best USA Blog[Best USA Blog] Biblical pictures: I keep no background in biblical languages, so I use At Robertsons word Pictures in the New Purported burial site for Nahum to be restored Antiquities section in Iraq has announced plans for clasp suggested that I go to Iraq and take .

http://blog.jumpshotjake.com/2008/02/why-obama.html [Readership Zero] Why Obama?: I think these are all fair characterizations of her advantages over Obama (though I’m not sure experience is the number one strength is she then ran against McCain, but I digress from my digression). But this while this experience might make her understand the current process better than Obama, it does not necessarily make her better understand what the right solutions are.

dilsenomad's Webloghttp://dilsenomad.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/sheikh-hamza-on-tv/ [dilsenomad's Weblog] Sheikh Hamza on TV: is that everyone swims together whereas traditional Islamic education was completely individualized. What it did was give people all those tools (in the West called “liberal arts”) such as grammar, rhetoric, and logic, through which people could actually think and use their brains.

shrinkwrapped[shrinkwrapped] The Arab Mind: Part I: Equally pronounced has been the conflict within Lebanon between the largely rightist Christian Arabs and the predominantly leftist Muslims; these two factions have been engaged in intermittent fighting which in the last two years claimed thousands of casualties and with which, at the time of this writing, the Lebanese government seems unable to cope. 

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, , , , , ,