Ergonomic

My money is on Clinton. She is pushing for Iraq troop withdrawl now, but watch for a reversal in the first 90 days....

You need to get out more.

The Iraq Kuwait war was definitely an artifact of WWI and the Versailles conference. The Western powers were like hot babes with sugar daddies doing a stroll down Rodeo Drive. And all based on a century of colonialism. There are undercurrents that are pinning the curent problems in Kenya on Britidsh colonialism. They're 'Bloody well right'. The Falklands was a similarly sorry tale. The American civil war grew out of 1776, the Mexican wars and the Louisianna Purchase.

Also, their lack of control over exports, which is what the Emery case turned out to be. We need to send a few sting agents down to the US ...

I agree. The Mission in Afghanistan is not a concept. It is an event.

The Japanese were ignored, or did ignore, Versailles. Maybe they thought they could sneak a march on the west. They certainly wanted hegemony in the east at the time and moved in that direction. My guess is that Italy joined Germany in WWII because Mussolini wanted territory (Balkans, Ethiopia...) and misjudged the war, and most particularly Hitler. He wasn't alone, after all.

Funny how so many (presumably) intelligent people can be set off by a little press news item. Ladies and gentlemen, let me acquaint you with the world of the media.... Media revenue = advertising sales Advertising sales = eyeballs Eyeballs = Triggered viewers. Triggered viewers = outrageous news items. Thanks for tuning in.

I started to read this thread, but I sort of got lost in the arguments . Maybe what we need is a sort of Marc Emery case up here but substitute guns for pot. Look where all the guns are coming from!

Yikes. Re your signature. Have you ever been to Sweden?

"Is Mr. Obama really Black or is he in fact a Muslim?" I'm wondering how the two can be mutually exclusive. America currently has many challenges but the one it has chosen to commit military resources to is the middle east. So who best to meet that challenge? Whoever it is, one hopes s/he will also have a very good economics advisor!