Blackfive 'splains what troop rotation really means. Pity such detail escapes the media...
We are not in the middle of a 'crisis'. This is not a 'contingency op'. We are a nation at war. Many don't understand this premise.We have now rotated 9 of our 10 active Army divisions to Iraq and Afghanistan. The only division that won't be rotated will be the 2nd Infantry Division which has responsibility for Korea. More than 128,000 reservists have been activated since 9/11. More than 300,000 soldiers have been deployed. We are at war.
Howard Owens asks a very good question:
Jon Henke uncovered this quote from John Kerry:"I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that," Kerry said. "However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions in which the houses of noncombatants were burned to the ground. And all of these acts, I find out later on, are contrary to the Hague and Geneva conventions and to the laws of warfare. So in that sense, anybody who took part in those, if you carry out the application of the Nuremberg Principles, is in fact guilty.
If true, wouldn't this make Kerry a war criminal?
But here's the part that bothered me -- how do you become an officer in the Navy and NOT KNOW that the acts he alleged violated the Hague and Geneva conventions? Hell, I never made it past senior airman in the Air Force, and I knew that.So in which part of Kerry's statement is he lying?
Pathetic Earthlings discovers an interesting paradox.
Michael Williams speculates that a positive effect of job out-sourcing may be a devolution of the centralized corporate structure. That we will turn to a cooperative network of cottage industries for our goods and services.
What's ironic is that such a "an interconnected network of cottage industries" -- brought about by capitalism -- would be a better fulfillment of Marx's dream than communism and socialism have ever brought about.
Seriously, an article in today's SF Chronicle discusses California's job hemorrhage and what may be a bleak job market as more corps downsize and/or leave the state.
Discouraged by high costs and strict regulations, just under 60 percent of California business leaders interviewed for a new study said they have policies to restrict job growth in the state or move jobs to other locations in the United States.
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Thanks for the link! I just realized that I don't have you linked... gotta fix that.
Posted by: Michael Williams at February 24, 2004 09:05 PMThank Yew, for a great blog.
Posted by: feste at February 24, 2004 09:33 PM