A pessimistic strategic future

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two interesting articles written recently - one from Haaretz and one from Middle East Newsline.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/436401.html

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/june/06_06_3.html

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1. The Haaretz piece is interesting, in a way.

It's dumb, but then military people are not usually academic
grade minds anyway. They seem to be gibbering a bit and
thrashing around because of the intractability of the problems
they face. Reminds of what I see in US defense circles, although
the issues are a bit different there. I'm glad they are not
"protecting" me. It's bad enough with the Pentagon bureaucrats.

The problem is with their premises, the "zero sum" stuff (a
solecism that, BTW), if you start with the idea that there is no
way out, then heck, you're not going to come up with a nice
peaceful resolution. You only get out of logic in conclusions
what is consistent with the premise you feed in at the beginning.

They need to think outside their little box now and then. Otherwise
they are just bouncing off the walls and waiting for Shrub's
Armageddon.