Wirearchy » 2004 » November » 12 http://blog.wirearchy.com You know more than me, we know more than you, and wherever this all going, we're going there together. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:02:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en The Beginning of An Ending ? http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/11/12/the-beginning-of-an-ending/ http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/11/12/the-beginning-of-an-ending/#comments Sat, 13 Nov 2004 03:27:00 +0000 admin http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/11/12/the-beginning-of-an-ending/ For me, yes, quite shockingly. We’ve had in mind the model of a unilateral America with an excess of power, an excess of dynamism, in a world without counterweight.

However, the current military activism of the United States reminds me of that of the USSR at the time of the first war in Afghanistan.

That was the moment when the Soviet imperial system was ruined completely… The last breath of declining empires is the military gesture.

From an interview with the French historian Emmanuel Todd, who presciently foresaw the collapse of the USSR.

]]> http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/11/12/the-beginning-of-an-ending/feed/ Breaking News … Iraq Election Campaign … http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/11/12/breaking-news-iraq-election-campaign/ http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/11/12/breaking-news-iraq-election-campaign/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:55:00 +0000 admin http://blog.wirearchy.com/2004/11/12/breaking-news-iraq-election-campaign/ … starts today. As a kickoff, the Allawi provisional government has announced that Allawi’s party will hold their convention in Fallujah. This will help start the healing process, following the razing of the city. The utter destruction of Fallujah was, according to Allawi, carried out so that any residents who cared to remain there can participate in Iraq’s first free elections.

The Iraqi and American troops are under strict orders to use only small arms fire on insurgents holed up in the city’s major mosque, as the facilities will be required for the convention delegates in sevral weeks time.

For a more detailed report, read here …

the most insightful commentary about the state of affairs before the election did indeed come from Ed Helms of the Daily Show, who raised the rather obvious but overlooked point of how does one run any kind of election campaign during a period of martial law.

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