January 31, 2010

January 31, 2010 by yorksranter 1 comment

fatigue

This might have been a bigger story than it is.

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random Afghanistan links

Jean-Dominique Merchet writes about the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, and argues that the political preparation and the overall strategy of it give cause for optimism. I’ve thought this before, and then doubted it. There seems to be something of an optimism outbreak on after the London conference last week; here’s McChrystal, saying he expects that…

January 31, 2010 by yorksranter 1 comment

support from an unexpected quarter

This feels wrong – but it looks like Prinny did the right thing. I wonder what Nigel Lawson or Monckton will say the next time they meet the heir to the throne?

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Haitian logistics: one reader asks…

A little more Haitian logistics. That’s what the container terminal looked like this week (from here). Nathan Hodge of Wired has two good pieces, about progress reopening the harbour and bringing in a huge barge full of drinking water, and surveying the bottom of the harbour, which may not be in the same place any…

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now that’s what I call wanktankery

Perhaps we shouldn’t be so hard on the British wanktank movement. Here’s an example of the US version. It turns out that the people responsible for a break-in at U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu’s office, who apparently posed as telecoms company technicians in an attempt to “tamper” with the phones, were led by a character who…

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