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(cross posted at Daily Kos)
Recently, while browsing another blog's comment thread I was brought up short when I came upon this statement:
It’s still unclear where the main source of our problem in Iraq lies.Gosh, where do we start?
But let's cut the snark and try to answer the man's question. Because until we can do that, not only will we have lost the Iraq war, we will have embarked on a path that will lead to one disastrous war after another, being bled dry by "leaders" who want one thing only: ultimate power.
(This article was, of course, cross posted at Daily Kos)
Yesterday I listed the ten most read posts at E Pluribus Unum.
Today I'm listing my Top Ten "high-impact" diaries cross-posted at Daily Kos.
First, a word of explanation:
As you may know, there are thousands of diaries (posts) per day at Daily Kos. A tiny percentage become "recommended diaries" and are highlighted on a side-bar panel. An even tinier percentage are placed on the front page of the site. The vast majority of diaries come and go like waves lapping on the beach -- coming and going and being constantly replaced by new waves that also come and go. A "high-impact" diary represents the middle ground between a recommended diary and one of those waves on the beach. It is one of those diaries that gets the "optimum" combination of recommendations, comments and commenters. The system is somewhat arbitrary. Nonetheless, once a day, the high-impact diaries are recognized and share a brief moment of recognition.
These, then, are the diaries I posted at Daily Kos that recieved this recognition in 2006:
10. Connect dots:Cheney,Whittington=Bush lied under oath? (2/13)
8. (tie) Do the Democrats Have A Ground Game Like THIS One? (9/24)
8. (tie) (POLL) Dem Response To al-Maliki (7/25)
7. Fourth Generation Warfare: "You have to hunt like a network to defeat a network." (8/15)
6. NJ-04: Crum-believable! Colbert disses my ad for Carol Gay! (10/23)
5. Screw The Polls: Watch Prediction Markets (8/25)
4. Bush: Hiding a Serious Heart Condition? (8/23)
3. When Bush Taunts, Don't Defend: Attack Him Back HARD (6/29)
2. I'm an anti-war, yellow-dog Democrat -- and a Zionist, too (7/14)
And the highest impact diary I posted to Daily Kos in 2006 was...
(Cross posted at Daily Kos)
[Note: This is the first of a series of posts on the topic of fourth-generation warfare (4GW).]
If you read the Seymour Hersh piece in the New Yorker, perhaps you remember him quoting John Arquilla:
"Strategic bombing has been a failed military concept for ninety years, and yet air forces all over the world keep on doing it," John Arquilla, a defense analyst at the Naval Postgraduate School, told me. Arquilla has been campaigning for more than a decade, with growing success, to change the way America fights terrorism.Well, that got my attention."The warfare of today is not mass on mass," he said. "You have to hunt like a network to defeat a network. Israel focussed on bombing against Hezbollah, and, when that did not work, it became more aggressive on the ground. The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result."
I've been reading some on 4GW, starting with what many believe is the seminal work on the subject: The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation. But more on that another time.
Back to John Arquilla, from an interview at the Institute of International Studies...
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