3/29/2013
Ehiztari
France knew it was
stirring a hornets’ nest when it invaded Mali earlier this year. So did the USA
and the EU. Yet they pushed through and eventually, together with several African
nations’ troops, managed to achieve victory. François Hollande even went
to Mali to get a photo-op on the trail of that moment.
But that photo and
that victory are as close to reality as George W. Bush’s photo aboard a US
carrier with the “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him. To be honest, the
difference is that this time they know it. And they fear it.
Winning is easy.
Keeping the spoils of war is much more difficult. Ask the Americans in Iraq.
That is...
3/21/2013
Ehiztari
Syria has become a broken toy
no one wants to get their hands on. Truth be told, the situation has escalated
and it is way more complicated now. What used to be black or white has now
dozens of shades of gray in between. The Balkanization of the conflict has
derived in a war with dozens of splinter cells with targets too different
between themselves.
There is no more a homogeneous
opposition. Some groups want to oust Assad. Others just want to defend their neighborhoods.
The Kurds are happy taking care of their own business watching the rest killing
themselves. And then there are the ones looking for a Yihad. For those ones,
the -theoretically-...
3/13/2013
Ehiztari
Over 12% of the Money spent
in rebuilding Iraq has been wasted. That is the conclusion reached by the
latest enquiry on the matter by the USA. And it could be worse.
Nothing is more
painful for Americans than paying taxes. That is why the “taxpayer’s money” is
scrutinised so closely. And the quantity wasted this time is considerable: more
than $8b.
An estimation, by the
way, that could be short. Stuart Bowen, head of the committee redacting the
document, told Wired
that the total could be much more because they only could audit superficially
the account. An account that only includes money spent on reconstruction, not
the overall military...
Are you afraid? Well, this works in that way. First you do what scares you and it's later when you get the courage
3/29/2013
Ehiztari
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