The New York Times is reporting that, contrary to “repeated statements by the Bush administration and American officials in Iraq”, U.S. intellgience officials “are confronting a broad-based Shiite uprising that goes well beyond supporters of one militant Islamic cleric who has been the focus of American counterinsurgency efforts.” At the same time we are fighting …
More Wolfowitz Delusions
by | 2004-04-08 | No Comments
Wolfowitz, in October 2003, responding to suggestions that an ambush that killed several Ukranian soldiers might dash hopes for a more international force: Actually, I visited down in that area. I met with the commander of the multinational force. It/’s in the Shia heartland where some people predicted we/’d have all kinds of trouble after …
Zhang Aiping and the Giant Wave (Julang)
by | 2004-04-08 | No Comments
As I try to write a section in the dissertation on the principles of design behind the Chinese nuclear arsenal, I am confronted by the following two passages, both written by the eminent political scientist John Lewis (no relation): “Zhang [Aiping] attached great importance to project JL-1, and soon after his appointment in March 1975, …
US Strikes Mosque in Fallujah
by | 2004-04-07 | No Comments
The Associated Press is reporting that we struck a mosque in Fallujah with three missiles, killing 40 people. The Washington Post reports that a command post authorized the strike after several requests from local commanders for air strikes against the Mosque, from which five Marines were reported shot. I think you can track the slow …
