http://ayashi.net/blog/ en-us 2004-08-28T08:05:54-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/08/useful_idiots.shtml First of all, I haven't forgotten about my last post or the points everyone raised. I've been giving it all a lot of thought and am still chugging through things in my head--and should probably post more of those deliberations... 2004 Election Catsy 2004-08-28T08:05:54-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/08/i_am_a_neoconse.shtml ...I think. A shift has been occurring in my thinking over the last year, and it is one which I have only recently managed to quantify or describe--if only to myself. Regular readers--all four of you--will no doubt have noticed... Foreign Policy Catsy 2004-08-17T17:48:08-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/07/elections_suspe.shtml Why is this not front-page news everywhere?U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, Newsweek reported on Sunday. [....] In... 2004 Election Catsy 2004-07-11T12:19:18-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/a_river_in_egyp.shtml Bush: War not inciting terroristsIn an interview with Irish television ahead of a U.S.-EU summit, U.S. President George W. Bush defended his stance on Iraq and said the war has not incited terrorists.I'll let that one sink in for a... Bush Catsy 2004-06-25T06:56:30-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/rush_and_schade.shtml By now, most of you will have read somewhere or another that Rush Limbaugh is getting divorced. Hopefully we won't be hearing any diatribes from Rush about how liberals are the source of the breakdown of the family unit and... General Politics Catsy 2004-06-12T07:34:17-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/kommandobefehl.shtml Given the danger to the safety of the United States and the nature of international terrorism, and to the extent provided by and under this order, I find consistent with section 836 of title 10, United States Code, that it... Foreign Policy Catsy 2004-06-10T07:04:25-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/in_the_line_of.shtml Via Josh Marshall, yet another disturbing story on the torture front: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A military police officer was discharged partly because of a head injury he suffered while posing as an uncooperative detainee during a training exercise at Guantanamo... Human Rights Catsy 2004-06-10T02:12:45-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/means_and_ends.shtml A few days ago, Winds of Change posted one of its regular "Sufi Wisdom" parables, and invited comment. I spotted it a bit too late to get in on the discussion, but it spurred me to write about a point... Iraq Catsy 2004-06-09T08:21:30-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/not_reagan_yet.shtml I'm working on a Reagan post. I was going to hold off on even commenting on Reagan this week out of respect, especially since some of the more classless folks on the left can't seem to refrain from taking a... General Politics Catsy 2004-06-09T06:28:35-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/tenet_gone.shtml It's official: George Tenet is resigning. Those following Washington politics closely have been wondering when this was going to happen--and whether he would go quietly or be fired outright. And let's face it: while the Bush administration has their share... Catsy 2004-06-03T09:00:24-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/boom_and_other.shtml Anyone else hear about the meteor over the Pacific Northwest? At least, the initial assumption was that it's a meteor. An earlier report on KIRO Radio that a meteorite might have hit near Chehalis, about 30 miles south of Olympia,... Science Catsy 2004-06-03T07:41:20-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/06/axis_of_ahmad.shtml Rumors have been flying since the raid on Ahmad Chalabi's home a few weeks ago--the most persistent of which is the allegation that Chalabi was feeding sensitive intel to Iran. As if the degree to which the WMD intel he... Iraq Catsy 2004-06-02T08:08:58-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/05/imperialism_is_as.shtml Over at the ever-worthy-of-reading Obsidian Wings, Edward takes issue with a Belmont Club article about our evolving concept of modern warfare, suggesting that it strays into rhetorical territory that takes us down a road that Rome tread to its peril.... Foreign Policy Catsy 2004-05-29T08:52:08-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/05/islam_and_democracy.shtml Some critics of the neoconservative plan to democratize the Middle East have argued that Islam is incompatible with democracy--a notion which is often roundly denounced as "racist" or "bigoted" by folks across the board. Most of us on the left... Islam Catsy 2004-05-28T06:45:14-07:00 http://ayashi.net/blog/archives/2004/05/getting_pumped.shtml So I'm reading this CNN article about Kerry's assertions that he can wage a more effective SCWoT than Bush. Yawn. Nothing exciting or even interesting in there, but scrolling down to the bottom provides us with an unrelated bit of... Energy Catsy 2004-05-26T09:15:33-07:00