http://www.metafilter.com/tags/deadlinks+iraq Posts tagged with 'deadlinks' and 'iraq' at MetaFilter. Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:17:57 -0800 Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:17:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/42777/The%2DWrong%2DWar%2Dand%2DExit%2DStrategyCivil%2DWar%2Dand%2DNews%2DFrom%2DKirkuk <small>A distinction between “old” and “new” wars is vital. “Old wars” are wars between states where the aim is the military capture of territory and the decisive encounter is battle between armed forces. “New wars”, in contrast, take place in the context of failing states. They are wars fought by networks of state and non-state actors, where battles are rare and violence is directed mainly against civilians, and which are characterised by a new type of political economy that combines extremist politics and criminality... I argue in this article that the United States viewed its invasion of Iraq as an updated version of “old war” that made use of new technology. The US failure to understand the reality on the ground in Iraq and the tendency to impose its own view of what war should be like is immensely dangerous and carries the risk of being self-perpetuating. It does not have to be this way. </small> <br> <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/ViewPopUpArticle.jsp?id=2&articleId=2591" title="In early June 2005, it is hard to be optimistic. The insurgency is escalating - more attacks, more casualties, more groups and more names are reported daily. The idea of Bush as a successful wartime leader, pioneering the new technology-intensive form of warfare, helped contribute to his November 2004 election victory; the more hawkish elements of his first administration have been reappointed and promoted. The American pursuit of a moral crusade reinforces the insurgents’ notion of a global jihad. Indeed, the new war in Iraq can increasingly be viewed as the stage for a global new war, which will be hard to contain as the ideas and experiences spread and hard to end because of the bitterness, fear and hate that are mobilised in war... Will reality bring about a questioning of the story of old war and its contemporary relevance? Are other actors - the United Nations, the European Union, together with Iraqi civil society - able, even at this late stage, to develop an alternative strategy: one based on constructive, democratic, forward-thinking principles that could offer a convincing way forward for Iraq’s people, and might help to avert a global new war?">Iraq: the wrong war </a> - Mary Kaldor writes of what was happening in pre-invasion Iraq, what happened thereafter and what the alternatives were. Well, there is always <a href="http://207.44.245.159/article9099.htm" title="Against all odds, a national liberation front is emerging in Iraq. Washington hawks may see it coming, but they certainly don't want it. Many groups in this front have already met in Algiers. The front is opposed to the American occupation and permanent Pentagon military bases; opposed to the privatization and corporate looting of the Iraqi economy; and opposed to the federation of Iraq, ie balkanization... The Bush administration though is pulling no punches with Iraqification. It's a Pandora's box: inside one will find the Battle of Algiers, Vietnam, El Salvador, Colombia. All point to the same destination: civil war. This deadly litany could easily go on until 2020 when, in a brave new world of China emerging as the top economy, Sunni Arabs would finally convince themselves to perhaps strike a deal with Shi'ites and Kurds so they can all profit together by selling billions of barrels of oil to the Chinese oil majors. If, of course, there is any semblance of Iraq left at that point.">Exit strategy: Civil war.</a> And on that, note this: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061401828_pf.html" title="Police and security units, forces led by Kurdish political parties and backed by the U.S. military, have abducted hundreds of minority Arabs and Turkmens in this intensely volatile city and spirited them to prisons in Kurdish-held northern Iraq, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials, government documents and families of the victims. Seized off the streets of Kirkuk or in joint U.S.-Iraqi raids, the men have been transferred secretly and in violation of Iraqi law to prisons in the Kurdish cities of Irbil and Sulaymaniyah, sometimes with the knowledge of U.S. forces. The detainees, including merchants, members of tribal families and soldiers, have often remained missing for months; some have been tortured, according to released prisoners and the Kirkuk police chief.">Kurdish Officials Sanction Abductions in Kirkuk</a>--a city from which, I am afraid, we will hear more and more as time goes by. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42777 Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:17:57 -0800 brokenlinks bush deadlinks exitstrategy failedstates failingstates Iraq iraqWar MaryKaldor presidentbush strategy USA WMDs y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/36895/Peace%2Dnot%2Dgays%2Dmost%2Dimportant <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usvalu1110,0,5578900.story?coll=ny-top-headlines">Liberal Christian groups</a> start a poll war challenging the evangelicals claim to the Christian vote publishing findings that the war and poverty were more important moral issues voters than Iraq. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38001-2004Nov9.html">Other views </a>at The Washington Post (subscription required), and <a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0406188.htm">The Catholic News</a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.36895 Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:03:35 -0800 brokenlinks christianity deadlinks iraq morality poverty war KirkJobSluder http://www.metafilter.com/24470/Seussian%2Dpolitics <a href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/204-03202003-61030.html">Bush and Chirac debate Iraq<br></a> "I will bomb him in his car; I will bomb him from afar.<br> I will bomb him in his house; I do not like him, he’s a louse.<br> I’m going to bomb him here and there.<br> I’m going to bomb him everywhere." tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24470 Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:03:08 -0800 brokenlinks bush cheney deadlinks drseuss iraq parody satire seuss Perigee http://www.metafilter.com/20403/ <a href="http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020927-500715.htm">Agency disavows report on Iraq arms</a> "The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was 'six months away' from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist. 'There's never been a report like that issued from this agency,' Mark Gwozdecky, the IAEA's chief spokesman, said yesterday in a telephone interview from the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria." tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.20403 Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:41:21 -0800 brokenlinks bush deadlinks IAEA iraq middleast nuclearweapons nukes presidentbush WMDs owillis