Curiouser and Curiouser! on warblogging http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic warblogging Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb For all you warbloggers out there... Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:59:40 +0100 <P>I'm hoping to find some other stuff, more interesting to me, on <A href="http://www.stratfor.com/">Stratfor's</A> website but I suspect it will be a goldmine for warbloggers.</P> <P>[From the <A href="http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html">RedRockEater</A>]</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000022.html I'm not a warblogger but... Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:20:53 +0100 <P>From <A href="http://www.stratfor.com/fib/topStory_view.php?ID=204972">StratFor</A> strategic forecasting:</P> <P>"It is difficult to see the strategy behind Palestinian tactics. Suicide bombing has clearly become a mainstream Palestinian tactic, one that makes the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip unlikely to the point of impossibility. It not only locks Israel into a war-fighting mode but also eases diplomatic pressure on Israel to make a settlement. The Palestinians know this. So why have the Palestinians adopted this tactic? <BR><BR>The answer lies in what must be a fundamental strategic shift on the part of the Palestinians. They no longer see the creation of a rump Palestinian state as a feasible or desirable end. Rather, despite the hardship of an extremely extended struggle, they have moved toward a strategy whose only goal must be the destruction of Israel. Since that is hardly likely to happen any time soon, the Palestinians must see forces at work in the Islamic world that make this goal conceivable and not just a fantasy."</P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><FONT color=red>ยป</FONT> I found this a disturbing peice and, if it's analysis is to be believed, it redefines how I think about the struggle in the middle east.&nbsp; It's all a lot more complicated than I wanted to believe.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P></BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000038.html De Vries Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:08:16 +0000 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><A href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes.php3?author=Peter+De+Vries">Peter De Vries</A>. "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." [<A href="http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html">Quotes of the Day</A>] [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/">Seb's Open Research</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I loved Peter De Vries "The Mackeral Plaza" which I read about 8 or 9 years ago.&nbsp; It was really an introduction to American humorist writers.&nbsp; Sadly his books are not easy to come by (my copy of Plaza was quite an old 2nd copy).</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001259.html