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Read Rumsfeld and China

My summer reading recommendations: To Learn: "Rumsfeld" by Andrew Cockburn; "To Change China" by Jonathan Spence....

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Conscience-to-the-world:


Some thoughts to the whole world:

Hello World:

If U have few minutes, then pls. read the following:


Question: “SOME POPULAR REASONS OF WHY THE WORLD CHAOS & CONFLICTS NEVER CEASE?”

A-1: “Greedy-and-bad-deeds” always are in conflicts with “good-deeds” and “greedy-and-bad-deeds”
always corrupt and easily take controls the “good-deeds”; while “good-deeds” are so hard to
preserve and easily to fade away!.
A-2: World-devils are always in conflicts with angels, and unfortunately, devils always try to trick others
by means of showing, proving others that angels are world worst devils, while the angels have no
capability to prove themselves as genuine angels to the rest of naive world-bystanders, naive
non-believers are sitting for accusing and complaining and crying, while these folks cannot protect
themselves from devastations of all sorts, caused by devils due to lacking of intelligence, or courage
or both, or even have been corrupted or threatened by devils.
A-3: World devils have always evolved faster to do harms than angels that they can master new ways of
fighting back the evolving devils that is exactly like in the nature where germs evolve to fight new
drugs being manufactured.
A-4: World lacks of right and effective leader(s) who supposed to possess all necessary own resources
and his/their dedicated deeds such as: the real-time, harmonious, most-creative-and-long-visionary,
most-effective-and-down-to-earth mind, deeds, intelligence and evolving/mutable strategies and
resources and times, etc., to fight and/or set new plans/strategies/tactics to confront devils
physically or mentally or both.
A-5: Disturbances of own down-hearted/saddened citizens and local and global down-hearted stirrers,
Disbelievers and naives or short-tempered-and-can-do-nothing folks to join in to spoil or devastate
all feasible fighting plans against world devils and make all good-deeds growing foul.
A-6: World full with strayed and selfish sheep/rabbits as non-cooperative nations that they can only
apply their instinctive safest self-protective tactics as hiding under world-devils shadows as by
shying away from world common problems and wisely and eagerly hiding away from any possible
threatening, retaliation, revenges or the alike problems that will be given arrogantly by world-
devils.
A-7: World Laws and Orders and Justices have no one to take care of properly! While world-conscience
seems that it has no place to stay, and while world bad-deeds have been greatly prospered
themselves and world-naives or world-bystanders have constantly been fooled by the so-called
“illusionating” tactics using by devils to achieve their evil goals and profit themselves.
A-8: Etc.., and many, many more...
(summarized/simplified by: “Conscience-to-the-world”, 2007/10/12)

Thanks to all.


Conscience-to-the-world

Sean Michael O'Hara:

"Coming of Age in the Milky Way." I re-read it this summer. It is among the best science writing for popular audiences there is (science writing for technical audiences being nearly impenetrable).

I'm sorry there is a biography on Rumsfeld. I am sick of seeing the man's name. To see him on television testifying before Congress on the Tillman business made my flesh crawl.

Robert of Los Angeles:

Now that you've got that out of your system, Cal Condor ... I love the meme derived from Senators and pundits "worst quagmire" ... uhh anyone remember Vietnam? The fields of France could have been a quagmire in WW I and WW II, it was for Europe. As it was, 50 thousand in 6 months in WW I and never mind WW II was the "Good" war so I guess it wouldn't have mattered if we lost 5 million. Howz about Korea, a stupid way to start a war on the desperate defensive on the Pusan perimeter, piss off a billion Chinese, and end up back along the DMZ the UN picked years before after losing 40,000. Hey, and its officially a quagmire when we're still there with 35000 troops along a minefield strewn frontier 50 years later. This has been a test of the "moment in reality" system. Please adjust your internet site
accordingly.

philofra:

california condor, excellent comment!

california condor:

My summer reading recommendations include David Ignatius's old Washington Post columns cheerleading Bush's invasion of Iraq; Jim Hoagland's effulgent praise of Colin Powell's totally false and fabricated case against Saddam's MWDs at the UN in February, 2003; Fred Hiatt's Post editorials egging Bush on and ignoring his lies and deceit. Then there are the voluminous old outpourings of AIPAC-style neoconservatives who were wrong at every turn on Iraq and everything else, and who have cost this country dear in lives, treasure, ruined families, and sunken national prestige among nations. Then, as always, I will ask myself, why are these scoundrels and mountebanks still working away at their high-paying sinecures, many now having flipflopped, scuttling off the sinking neocon ship, expediently excoriating Bush for the errors that they all endorsed when it all might have been halted if at the outset they'd not rolled over for Bush. And I will type out my regular little message of the week to my Democratic Senators and House Member: IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST LEST HE BOMB IRAN AND MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE. My summer reading makes me mad as h--l. If polls saying 54 percent want Cheney impeached and 46 percent want Bush ousted, and 70 percent think Bush has screwed up in Iraq, then maybe others feel the same and the Democratic Congress will step up, do what needs to be done, and I can go back to summer reading on what went wrong with Bush's war and its media fellow travelers who lured us into the worst geopolitical quagmire in modern American history.

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