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June 20, 2005

THE OVERWHELMING UNREALITY OF WHERE WE ARE NOW

The Light Of Reason[The Light Of Reason] Bush, who was to welcome Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari for his first visit to the White House on Friday, ruled out any hard and fast timetable for withdrawing the 130,000 US soldiers currently deployed in Iraq and made it clear that it will not be anytime soon.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

http://oohlah.blogspot.com [Oohlah.blogspot.com] Oohlah's Blog-space: July 2004: Brian Leiter has offered the rest of the philosophical world some keen insight as how to tell who is a philosophical talent and how to tell who is not (Read his blog here). What I have to say here makes little difference to the rest of the philosophical community but I would like to address some of his arguments.

[Newsdissector.com] News Dissector Blog » The Iraq Election: The NY Times is also finally reminding us of a context that most of the TV reporters seem blissfully unaware of: "A survey of 3,500 Arab citizens in six countries, organized by Professor Telhami and conducted by Zogby International, found last year that most citizens regard Iraqis as worse off under American occupation than they were under Saddam Hussein. Most, it found, accuse the United States of being motivated not by a desire to spread democracy, but by an interest in Arab oil, a stronger Israel and a weaker Muslim world.

Gseis.ucla.eduhttp://www.gseis.ucla.edu [Gseis.ucla.edu] Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq ...: an air of unreality about the United Nations Security Council debate on Iraq. Whether the new inspection regime succeeds or not, that unreality will not .

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Posted at June 20, 2005 10:49 AM

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