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hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Obama: A Year Later, and Much More…Part VIIhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/636201In the comment section of the previous installment, two of my esteemed readers (Wiley and Justi) expressed regret that I do not respond to comments, and I must apologize and explain. Some of you may recall that, when I began blogging here in Jan of ’06 (has it really been that long? How ‘time...Obama: A Year Later, and Much More…Part VIhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/635706War is a nasty business, whether we are talking of ‘just’ wars, ‘unjust’ ones or the ‘in-between’ kind. For example, and employing the ‘objective’ standards of Western concepts of justice, most people would regard WWII as a ‘just’ war, while at least most historians think of WWI as ‘in-between’,...Obama: A Year Later, and Much More…Part Vhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/635533Having briefly mentioned Prof. Weinbaum’s ‘intangibles’ (my term, not his), I shall resist the temptation to flesh out the problems they relate to, and mention only Afghanistan’s ethnically and linguistically diverse, if not fissured, population of about 28 million. Roughly half of them are...Obama: A Year Later, and Much More…Part IVhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/635436Afghanistan – a wild and beautiful land with a past as turbulent as the present, and borders that have meaning only for makers of maps… I won’t go into any details of Afghanistan ’s history, easily available online, but will merely note that at least a nodding acquaintance with it helps us to...Obama: A Year Later, and Much More…Part IIIhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/634793Okay, so we’ve got ourselves a bit of a debate. Some of the comments to the previous post in this series merit a response, and I shall provide one presently. First, though, permit me to clarify my position again. As a Canadian, I am an outside observer of the American political scene. I am a...Obama: A Year Later, and Much More…Part IIhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/634558Here we’re only in Part II, and we’re already getting into the ‘Much More’ part… In my previous post, I told you that my self-imposed leash snapped when I heard Davis Axelrod’s remarks about the Presidents lack of interest in ‘nation building’ and his determination to ‘defeat’ the Taliban or...Instead of the Planned Post...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/634435Tonight I would just like to express my sorrow about the massacre at Fort Hood, TX, my sympathy for the victims, and my condolences for their families...Obama: A Year Later, and Much More…Part Ihttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/634313Today, I heard White House ‘advisor’ David Axelrod say on CNN that President Obama was not interested in ‘nation building’ in Afghanistan, but only in defeating the Taliban, ‘to keep America safe.’ This is not a verbatim quote, but is nonetheless what he said. (Actually, Axelrod may have said...For All Book Lovers, and Especially for Pat...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/629663I don't have time tonight for much, but thought you might find this interesting... http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78 Enjoy!Canada walks out on Ahmadinejad's UN speechhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Nautikos/629117Canada boycotted a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday evening, protesting his denial of the Holocaust and verbal attacks on Israel. The Canadian delegation, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, walked out at the start of...