War links
12 myths of war.
Oz, the war-fighting nation: Of the eight major conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries, Australia is the only country to have participated in every one of them. We have been in the Boer War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the two Gulf wars, and Afghanistan. And we didn’t start any of them … Actually, there are plenty of major wars in that time we have had nothing to do with. The Russian Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Chinese Civil War, the Arab-Israeli Wars, the Indo-Pakistani Wars, the Congo Wars …
Foreseeing a future that is a marriage of Hiroshima with Auschwitz: Hiroshima signified the technical possibility of a desert that approaches closer and closer to the absolute; Auschwitz represented the deliberate and lucid pursuit of total annihilation. The conjunction of these two forms of the will to nothingness looms in the black holes of modern hatred. The vulnerability of modern cities to targeted assaults. Especially electricity supply.
Evidence suggests that the US has broadened its nuclear targeting to regional proliferators. Pakistan has 30-45 nuclear weapons and its intelligence service has a history of playing footsie with all sorts of worrying folk. As Musharaff manoeuvres against the political parties he is making deals with Islamic radicals. Claims of US plans to secure the Pakistan nuclear weapons if things fall apart.
The British having problems securing an Afghan town from the Taliban.
Oz, the war-fighting nation: Of the eight major conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries, Australia is the only country to have participated in every one of them. We have been in the Boer War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the two Gulf wars, and Afghanistan. And we didn’t start any of them … Actually, there are plenty of major wars in that time we have had nothing to do with. The Russian Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Chinese Civil War, the Arab-Israeli Wars, the Indo-Pakistani Wars, the Congo Wars …
Foreseeing a future that is a marriage of Hiroshima with Auschwitz: Hiroshima signified the technical possibility of a desert that approaches closer and closer to the absolute; Auschwitz represented the deliberate and lucid pursuit of total annihilation. The conjunction of these two forms of the will to nothingness looms in the black holes of modern hatred. The vulnerability of modern cities to targeted assaults. Especially electricity supply.
Evidence suggests that the US has broadened its nuclear targeting to regional proliferators. Pakistan has 30-45 nuclear weapons and its intelligence service has a history of playing footsie with all sorts of worrying folk. As Musharaff manoeuvres against the political parties he is making deals with Islamic radicals. Claims of US plans to secure the Pakistan nuclear weapons if things fall apart.
The British having problems securing an Afghan town from the Taliban.