http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:09:33 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:09:33 I fundamentally agree with the author's point of view but Syria is in a demonstrably weak position and has nothing to gain by engaging in a general conflagration wherein Israel and US "go for broke."

Pakistan would be most likely to continue doing what they are doing now and perhaps enhance their... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/43 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:25:03 Rumsfeld opposed the Agreed Framework of 1994. It is more likely that he played a role implementing the interminable delays in breaking ground and laying the foundation for the nuclear reactor site.

People are mixing up apples and oranges when it comes to nuclear power and proliferation. Nucle... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/42 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:15:27 Putting more lives and resources into an effort that has palpably failed to produce any benefits and only caused tremendous losses is against basis defense economic policy. McCain knows this, he took the course at the Naval War College, it's called Defense Economics 101. The basic principle of t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/41 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:34:51 Unconstitutional and unchecked Shia power in Iraq has removed a major check to Iranian power in the region. US aggression against Iran, the sanctions, the financial embargo, the constant threats of military attack, the drummed up nuclear issue, have created a gulf wide security crisis. And now, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/40 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:41:40 it was in danger of going below important support at 80. The economy of the haves and have mores is under attack. OPEC, Russia, and Iran want to trade in other currencies. Iran will tip the balance against dollar dominance since WWII. The deterioration, and decline of the US economy will beco... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/39 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:35:22 A large inventory of bombs, smart bombs, and other ordnance was built up for the expected war with Iran. It didn't happen because the IDF venture into Lebanon was a tactical failure and a strategic failure when neither Syria nor Iran were drawn into the conflict.

Short of attacking Iran with no... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/38 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:11:58 ...is by killing appropriations. The so called allied Arab states are going to have to fund and support whatever resolution takes place in Iraq. You want to arm the Shia government, fine you can have money for that. Funds to remove US troops, fine. Funds to maintain and protect American tro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/37 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:05:53 Our object in Iraq was the destruction of their economic order. This was put into effect by the Bremer edicts. Despite all the ballyhoo about WMD, liberty, and democracy, the object was conquest and plunder, with the additional objective of gaining a foothold on the Asian landmass for more conqu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/36 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:18:59 ...we will win. They are winning every day.

The invasion, occupation and destruction of Iraq is a prelude to the domination of central and southwest Asia by the ruling clique of Rhodesian corporatists in England and the US who materially profit every day from the slaughter in Iraq. Operation B... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/35 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:17:50 First of all, the original ROK government was set up by the US and was a dictatorship until No Teh Oo was overthrown. It really didn't have any legitimacy till then. Originally, the US avoided a national plebiscite because they knew the South governed by remnants of the Japanese collaborationist ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/34 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:10:34 The reason? It's an ignorant ideological approach, which doesn't deal with reality and in the process abandons true statecraft. We have created a state of war in Iraq and international crisis and instability with our fraudulent neo-Rhodesian invasion of Iraq. It was the dumbest thing we could h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/33 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:19:21 The US creation of chaos in Iraq has permitted al qaeda to foment sectarian violence by picking cultural targets of special significance to each group.

Shia militants aren't disguised as police, they are the police.

<The White House believes that if American troops stay in Iraq long enough—wit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/32 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:15:24 uncomplicated by the presence of foreign occupiers dictating domestic policies and stealing national resources.

this will also force us to confront Iran as it really is, rather than as we dream it to be. If Iran really arms and trains shia militias, they will kick Sunni butts, with their superi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/31 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:22:59 ...the Iraqi central government has neither. It's so called constitution was written by Americans not Iraqis. The "constitution" attempts to make Bremer's colonial edicts permanent. Those edicts which favor American corporate exploitation of Iraq, allow for the wholesale export of Iraqi capita... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/30 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:17:07 This is the most outrageous corruption I have ever heard of. It particularly distresses me as the administration claims "to have a plan for victory!"

They had no plan in Iraq after the invasion. They had no means to secure the entire country. They had a plan and called it "cakewalk."

How... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/29 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:47:33 This is one of the principles underlying the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld decision by the Supreme Court:

"There is no bar to this Nation’s holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant. In Quirin, one of the detainees, Haupt, alleged that he was a naturalized United States citizen. 317 U.S., at 20. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/28 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:02:24 The interests of Armed Forces personnel are not always congruent with those of defense contractors. While senior officers may find a place at the profiteer table if they play the yes man role sufficiently, the military industrial complex is differentiated at the uniformed level. The Army and the M... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/27 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:34:35 For Musharref to mention the threat to bomb Pakistan into the stone age. Perhaps a similar issue came up, vis a vis Iran. We're going to attack Iran, do we have your support? No. Well then there will be negative consequences for your country, because you're with us or against us. Mushareff... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/26 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:07:58 ...institutions are a telling characteristic of developing totalitarianism. The rule of law is abandoned and traditional sources of authority are undermined. Those who played a role in formal government functions with law, regulation and custom defining the limits of their function and activity ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/25 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:30:57 ...each and every American and Brit in Iraq. No matter what the intentions, courage, goodwill or sensitivity, the presence of each one is an affront, an "ugly American."

I am reminded of the criminal caught red handed in a number of felonies: "I made a mistake, judge."

Was it a mistake or a ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/24 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:15:11 I wrote an opinion similar to this about a month ago.

Overlooked in the nuclear "weapons" program analysis, is that this is really about diversifying the electrical power grid to free up more fossil fuels for export and increase industrial and agricultural applications. This enhances the accumu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/23 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:32:44 ...the traditional cost benefit analysis in defense economics decision making. It is exactly the type of infantile and unprofessional approach top level defense decision makers are taught to abandon when assigned to policy making and defense resource allocation posts. In short it is just propaga... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/22 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:04:17 Please relieve me of the burden of thought, decisions, and democracy.

Look ma! He says nucular jest like me!

"Nazism contained an incomparable and unsurpassable combination of all those psychological elements the masses needed...(Hitler) could not immediately give bread to the starving and wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/21 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:53:19 "From 1917 to 1918 he (Samuel Bush) served on the War Industries Board, where he was in charge of the forgings, guns, small arms, and ammunition section and the later the facilities division."

Kevin Phillips, American Dynasty, Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/20 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:10:22 The loss of the manufacturing base;

the adoption of a debt ridden finance/rentier economic model;

the huge economic losses caused by political/corporate corruption;

the corruption of ruling elites and corporations that siphon government credits for private gain;

the wholly negative ret... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/teryang/19 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:17:21