Is this one of those 'late Friday' news releases, with the weekend + a bonus holiday to distract the masses?
Read what Josh has to say about the confusion surrounding this....
posted to MetaFilter by dreeed at 9:52 PM on May 28, 2004

thanks, taxi for lightening the mood.

Regardless of how intelligence is obtained, perhaps the more important issue is the ethics of its use.....Agency of Ethical Use of Unethically Obtained Intelligence?
posted to MetaFilter by dreeed at 10:05 AM on February 28, 2004

angry...
friends tell friends tell friends, and being allowed to speak builds self-confidence.
Juan Cole has a great links page, and Everyone should read this one in particular. Don't miss the third post down.
Perhaps someone smarter than me can can set up a mechanism for donations to these courageous women, preferably using PayPal. (ease of use = more donations)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dreeed at 10:24 AM on February 27, 2004

Sorry, but repeating this part of a former post seems appropiate:

......" when Bush said in his January 2003 State of the Union message, “The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity,” this apparent burst of humility, in fact, concealed its totalitarian opposite. Every totalitarian leader claims that, in himself, he is nothing at all: His strength is only the strength of the people who stand behind him, whose deepest... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dreeed at 5:40 AM on February 26, 2004

Thanks to y2karl for posting the long excerpt from Foreign Policy above.
I only wish you had gone on to quote more of the main thesis:
"The supposition underlying these good intentions(of American intervention) is that underneath our skins, we are all Americans. If that is humanity's true desire, then all that Americans need to do is to give people a chance, liberate them from their imposed constraints, and they will embrace America's ideological dream. No wonder the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dreeed at 10:13 AM on February 24, 2004

"These unusual and undiplomatic displays caused German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, current council president, to ask for order inside the chamber. "

For the first time, I'm thinking Lonesome George may not get his war.
Too bad a Black Man is cast as supervillian.
posted to MetaFilter by dreeed at 2:29 PM on February 14, 2003