Many in US Military: Bush & Cheney Out of Control

CENTCOM Admiral William Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

The whole article is worth a read.

clipped from www.spiegel.de 'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control' Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc. Where and how can they fight yet another? The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for. The situation will be far worse in the event of a war with Iran. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win. Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

Can Business Make Friends with Web 2.0?

Still, there are quite a few, actually thousands of niches
where Web2.0 will integrate nicely. I will show 'you' them in the weeks and months ahead. Meanwhile, trust the process

clipped from www.itbusinessedge.com Maybe the problem is just the opposite - business leaders have seen what happens when Web 2.0 users target their business and they aren’t happy with the results. Thus far, the intersection of business and Web 2.0 generally has not been pretty. Consider StarbucksGossip, a hobbyist site that quickly became the place for Starbucks employees to publicly and anonymously air corporate grievances. And then there was the public relations nightmare AOL faced when blogger Vincent Ferrari recorded his frustrating interactions with an AOL customer service representative while trying to cancel his AOL account. He posted the encounter to his blog, where it quickly became viral, much to AOL’s chagrin. No wonder companies hesitate to invest in Web or even Enterprise 2.0. You just can’t be sure what will happen because you can’t control the message. And if you do try to control the message, you’re likely to face a very public blogger backlash.

Many in US Military: Bush & Cheney Out of Control

CENTCOM Admiral William Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

The whole article is worth a read.

clipped from www.spiegel.de 'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control' Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc. Where and how can they fight yet another? The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for. The situation will be far worse in the event of a war with Iran. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win. Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

Many in US Military: Bush & Cheney Out of Control

CENTCOM Admiral William Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

The whole article is worth a read.

clipped from www.spiegel.de 'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control' Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc. Where and how can they fight yet another? The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for. The situation will be far worse in the event of a war with Iran. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win. Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

Life is Harder Today , say Experts

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Life is harder now, some experts say Generation gap: After paying the bills, middle-class pockets are emptier So what's the problem? Why do so many middle class Americans with so much stuff say they feel so squeezed? If they are dogged by debt, isn’t it their own fault? Bankruptcy law expert and Harvard University Professor Elizabeth Warren spent a lot of time crunching consumer spending numbers for her popular books, "The Fragile Middle Class,” and “The Two-Income Trap.” In both, she makes this point: Despite all those $200 sneakers you hear about and the long lines at Starbucks, consumers are actually spending less of their income — much less — on discretionary items like clothing, entertainment and food than their parents did. In fact, after taking care of essentials like housing and health care, today’s middle class has about half as much spending money as their parents did in the early 1970s, Warren says.