Oct 21 2007
Blog Referral: Coming Anarchy
From time to time, I run across a Blog provides a great perspective, and a very high proportion of great posts. It is not just enough to suggest one or two posts from these sites for recommended reading. I think they should be be on everyone's personal blog list.
So, every once in awhile I will refer such a blog for your considersation.
The first is Coming Anarchy.
From their Welcome:
Welcome to the Robert D. Kaplan-inspired site where “Curzon”, “Younghusband” and “Chirol” blog on issues of world affairs and politics.
Three recent posts there that everyone should read:
Technology lessons from the Iraq war
Maturing Japanese foriegn policy analysis
Which Came First: The Nation or the State?
And a whole lot more good stuff before that. One of my motto's is that you should try to learn somthing new every day. It's pretty easy, with sites like Coming Anarchy around.
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Pretty good find.
I was going to blog the Human Nature Saletan piece but didn’t have time. On the others, it’s important to note those chicom boats aren’t strategic missile subs - they are attack boats. Not that I would minize the chicom threat…
On Japan, that’s an interesting take but it flies in the face of long-term history. It has always been the Japanese way to plan long-term. It can be argued that the war which ended in August 1945 began when Matt Perry humiliated the Shogun in 1853, after which the Japanese began to deliberately copy the West. That’s long-term…
But on the Nation-State issue… If "Only since the Treaty of Westphalia 1648 have certain groups of people believed in their absolute right to a specific piece of land" how can the jews claim the land of the Philistines they were driven from in 90 AD?
I know, how terribly anti-semitic of me to discuss jews, logic, and fairness together… But I think it is a good question. If there is a people on the planet who "deserve" a homeland it’s the Kurds. Creating Israel makes their claims and many others valid, IMO. Our failure to be consistent demonstrates "we" aren’t interested in principle but rather in our own parochial view only. In other words, "we" have no high ground - and deserve no quarter.
Agree completely on the Kurds. In fact, I would push the creation of an autonomous Kurdistan region, in Iran, and Iraq.
I need to study up on the Kurdish region in Turkey, so I can figure out why the Turks are so dead set against a self rule for the Kurds.