Comments on: Grain of Salt http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:39:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: gelvey http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-383511 gelvey Fri, 02 May 2008 02:07:12 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-383511 The one saving grace of destroying Iran's neuclear weapons program is Isreal. They know, they care and they don't much care about how the rest of the world looks at the problem. This is pretty much how the rest of the world should feel about the problem but, it's not politic. The one saving grace of destroying Iran’s neuclear weapons program is Isreal. They know, they care and they don’t much care about how the rest of the world looks at the problem. This is pretty much how the rest of the world should feel about the problem but, it’s not politic.

]]> By: ramjet http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-381270 ramjet Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:38:20 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-381270 subadei, you are welcome; very interesting blog. Me too would like to better remember the opinions of all the voices wich speaks today about that big mistake, thru the eighties when they spoke of the holy soldiers of god coming from the arab world for help us to fight the soviet invasion. subadei,
you are welcome; very interesting blog.
Me too would like to better remember the opinions of all the voices wich speaks today about that big mistake, thru the eighties when they spoke of the holy soldiers of god coming from the arab world for help us to fight the soviet invasion.

]]> By: subadei http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-381263 subadei Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:36:24 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-381263 ramjet, Many thanks for the nod. However, the post was meant to defy the popular adherence to US complicity in funding Osama bin Laden and/or al Qaeda during the Soviet/Afghan war. The fact remains, however, that the CIA through the ISI was complicit in funding a most "extreme" Afghani muj element. That aside I'd love to see and read the WSJ opinions on Afghanistan in, say, 1986. ramjet,

Many thanks for the nod.
However, the post was meant to defy the popular adherence to US complicity in funding Osama bin Laden and/or al Qaeda during the Soviet/Afghan war.

The fact remains, however, that the CIA through the ISI was complicit in funding a most “extreme” Afghani muj element.

That aside I’d love to see and read the WSJ opinions on Afghanistan in, say, 1986.

]]> By: RichL http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-381262 RichL Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:06:15 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-381262 There's an interesting article, and voluminous comments, on this at the link below. The gist is that the NIE is an initial step in normalizing relations with Iran as part of a larger deal on Iraq. http://blogs.stratfor.com/friedman/2007/12/04/further-thoughts-on-nie/ There’s an interesting article, and voluminous comments, on this at the link below. The gist is that the NIE is an initial step in normalizing relations with Iran as part of a larger deal on Iraq.

http://blogs.stratfor.com/friedman/2007/12/04/further-thoughts-on-nie/

]]> By: Zorro http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-381257 Zorro Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:21:03 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-381257 North Korea is a nuclear country ? I had no idea, I figured it was all a bluff. Though Israel is missing from your list. They got it from the french I believe. North Korea is a nuclear country ? I had no idea, I figured it was all a bluff.
Though Israel is missing from your list. They got it from the french I believe.

]]> By: ramjet http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-381253 ramjet Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:29:07 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-381253 "In Afghanistan, during the 1980s, while other friendly services, among them the French, urged the CIA to support more “moderate” tribal chiefs in the fight against the Red Army, the agency relied on the enlightened advice of its Saudi friends and supported the most extreme Islamists. U.S. troops are fighting and dying today for that blunder." Is it so really? http://soobdujour.blogspot.com/2007/12/misconception.html#links “In Afghanistan, during the 1980s, while other friendly services, among them the French, urged the CIA to support more “moderate” tribal chiefs in the fight against the Red Army, the agency relied on the enlightened advice of its Saudi friends and supported the most extreme Islamists. U.S. troops are fighting and dying today for that blunder.”

Is it so really?
http://soobdujour.blogspot.com/2007/12/misconception.html#links

]]> By: IJ http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-381251 IJ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:13:21 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-381251 In fairness, the WSJ article starts: <i><b>The citizens of the free world</b> have nothing to worry any more. . . No fewer than 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have just told us that the Iranian nuclear program really is not so dangerous.</i> In fairness, the WSJ article starts:

The citizens of the free world have nothing to worry any more. . . No fewer than 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have just told us that the Iranian nuclear program really is not so dangerous.

]]> By: Alfred Russel Wallace http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-381249 Alfred Russel Wallace Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:07:08 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2007/12/13/grain-of-salt/#comment-381249 Amen! The more interesting thing is that the release of the recent report, so clearly against the wishes of the current administration, shows that 'checks and balances' are still in play. Of course the news of the missing waterboarding tapes is probably retaliation, but again, 'checks and balances'.... Amen! The more interesting thing is that the release of the recent report, so clearly against the wishes of the current administration, shows that ‘checks and balances’ are still in play. Of course the news of the missing waterboarding tapes is probably retaliation, but again, ‘checks and balances’....

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