Comments on: What Three Years Means.

By: Pets

Pets — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:30:27 +0000

Nice Site! I have a bearded dragon called Gucchi and a border terrier called Ruby.They both hate each other and run a mile when they see each other! I enjoyed your blog- Thanks. R

By: dorsano

dorsano — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:59:14 +0000

We lived under the Articles of Confederation for over 7 years until it started to bankrupt us. Then we got serious about a central government.

I think Iraq should be seperated into 3 econmically viable “states”, in a lose confederation, and given sometime to live side by side.

The key objective should be to rachet down the violence and seperating the parties (any getting U.S. troops off on to the sidelines somewhere) seems to me to be the best way to do that.

By: Callimachus

Callimachus — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:40:35 +0000

Oh, I don’t mean to suggest that it’s all going to turn out like Germany in 1954. You’d need, among other things, a really ugly Islamist state to set up shop next door and send the people reeling away from that potential future. There are too many variables to make the comparison as anything but a general benchmark for progress (and thus to question those who cry “failure” too soon).

You’d also need a nation that was defeated to the point where its cities were obliterated and millions of its citizens were dead. Nasty business, history.

By: GN

GN — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:32:44 +0000

Cal - You have a strong point there, but the problem I see(and have pointed to in the past) is that there is no “Marshall” mentality there. There is not even a let’s win so we can do a Marshall there.

By: Callimachus

Callimachus — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:24:49 +0000

We were thinking similar things, but I was looking at it, more hopefully, in terms of reconstruction. Three years after the fall of Hitler, Germany was still in peril of starvation. The Berlin Airlift still was several months in the future, and the Marshall Plan had just begun to kick in.