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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
After Afghanistan
Had McCain won in 2008, we would no doubt he hearing a lot about the "D" word and the quagmire in Afghanistan. But the "Q" word doesn't really get mentioned either. No war has been lost. Only a mission is ending. And missions, unlike wars, can be defined in so many creative ways that it's hard to know what to make of them. It's easy to tell when a war has been lost, but a mission can never be lost, only renamed. And renaming is what Obama did to the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. Those wars weren't lost; they're only hiding out in the history books under new names and identities.
Wars are usually remembered according to the proclivities of their historians. The history books tend to record the Republican presidents of the last hundred years as either losing wars or winning wars that weren't worth winning. Democrats however usually win every one.
The Korean War and the Vietnam War were not that far in perception at the time, but are worlds apart in the history books. Had John F. Kennedy lived to serve out two terms and then passed on the big chair to his brother, would the history books even record that the United States lost the Vietnam War? Or would it, like Afghanistan, have gone down as a story about a difficult temporary intervention that ended successfully under the leadership of a wise and caring president?
It is difficult to imagine the left's narrative of the last century with such a big and meaty chunk taken out of it. What would have become of Oliver Stone's career without the JFK assassination and the mythology of a cruel and senseless war in Vietnam? Or imagine the last decade if Biden and Gore had managed to talk Clinton into going after Saddam. As entertaining as such speculations might be, renaming missions and tampering with the history books does not alter the outcome of wars.
From the early days, the left had gloated that Afghanistan would become another Vietnam. And like the appointment in Samarra, in attempting to escape that Vietnamness, it repeated many of the follies of Vietnam and few of its triumphs, failing to press the advantage while expending thousands of lives based on abstract theories hatched by the bright boys in Washington and fraudulent books passed on by the wives of generals to their husbands.
We are now in the Afghanistanization stage, hanging around a country for no particular purpose, except that we aren't very good at departures and the men who made this mess still think that Karzai and his crew can make this work if we provide them with some more training and air support without being shot in the back.
And when we have finally left and Karzai's cobbled together government collapses, its ministers absconding to Paris and Pakistan with suitcases full of stolen aid dollars, what comes after the war?
The old conflict aimed at denying Al Qaeda one base of operations had been outdated a few years after it began. That was something that Bush instinctively understood and that his critics have only slowly become aware of. Al Qaeda is not a country or an ethnic group. It is a religious vanguard that was always meant to serve as the core of an international Islamist terrorist movement. That function had been fulfilled long before an old man watching porn in a covert compound with no authority over anyone except his many wives was finally put down the hard way.
Obama, despite his third culture cred and his ability to carry around important books about world events while on vacation, has no clue what to do about any of that. Obama at War is really a dumber Bush at War, rehashing Bush era ideas and tactics with completely botched implementations. With Kabul in the rear-view mirror, all he has left is Bush's policy of targeted drone strikes on Al Qaeda terrorist leaders.
The only other foreign policy idea that the Obama crew brought to the table, aside from ending the support for the dictators, which ushered in the Arab Spring and the Islamization of the region, was to avoid ground wars and focus on limited drone strikes and intelligence operations.
This approach has been rebranded as the smarter and smaller war. A true conflict for the 21st with Muslim grad students in Yemen chatting on XBox Live with Muslim teenagers in Jersey City to convince them to make and carry liquid explosives on board a plane in tiny shampoo bottles while overhead a drone piloted by a formerly unemployed middle-aged professional skier with a degree in drone piloting from Kansas State hunts for them silently in their clan territories. It's the world of a William Gibson novel, except it's also our world now.
The targeted strike approach was largely borrowed from the Israeli playbook. Like Israel, the United States is in a tangled conflict that won't end any time soon. And like Israel, it's relying on saving some lives and weakening the terrorist infrastructure by taking out a few leaders here and there. Israel's targeted strikes on Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders never ended the conflict, but aborted more than a few terrorist plots by killing the bomb-makers and planners who were making them happen.
The actual conflict did not end. Neither did the attacks. Rather than shooting soldiers, Israel was shooting officers, because shooting soldiers required extended ground engagements and occupations that had become politically untenable. The United States has embraced the same strategy for the same reasons using technology that came out of Israel. But it hasn't given much thought to what comes after that.
The failure of the targeted strikes and arrests of terrorist leaders led Israel to pursue a physical separation through barriers and fences. The terrorists compensated for that with rockets and shelling. That led Israel to develop the Iron Dome, a defensive anti-rocket system. The suicide bomber, once ubiquitous, became a rarity, but the attacks have grown more powerful as the terrorists used the territory that they gained through Israeli withdrawals to deploy heavier long-range weapons that can reach major cities.
If the United States follows this same pattern of withdrawal and fortification, then by 2028, there might be an actual Fortress America guarded by anti-missile systems against Pakistani, Iranian and Egyptian nukes. And that scenario, as troubled as it sounds, is probably one of the better ones.
Israel withdrew from physical territories opening the way for a Hamas takeover of Gaza. Obama withdrew from geopolitical territories, announcing in Cairo that the United States would no longer support the undemocratic dictators of the Muslim world unless they had oil. Hamas, or its Egyptian parent organization, took over Egypt. Across the region, Islamist regimes rose and American allies fell. The Islamist winners of democratic elections turned into dictators leaving the United States in the awkward position of supporting new dictators while being jeered and denounced by the Arab Street.
What's the next step? It doesn't appear that there is one. Geniuses like Brennan only thought as far ahead as draining Muslim anger by rewarding political Islamists while using drone warfare to decimate violent Islamists. Not only is this distinction mostly imaginary, but the rise of political Islamists has made for more Al Qaeda takeovers and more work for the drones in North Africa.
The plan has failed and the second term is underway. It is very doubtful that Obama, whose big plan for Afghanistan was to copy the Bush plan for Iraq that he denounced in the Senate, has a backup plan. Brennan certainly does not. Secretary of State John Kerry is spending a lot of time talking about Global Warming while waiting a week for a callback from Russia. It's hard to think of a worse bunch of people in whose hands to put the fate of the nation and the world.
Both Bush and Obama largely missed the point of September 11, which is that it matters less how many training camps Al Qaeda has in some desert where there are more drugs and RPGs than people, but how many operatives they have in the United States. The terrorist attacks carried out by Al Qaeda in America all required that their operatives either be in the United States or have permission to enter it. The truly dangerous training camps aren't in Mali or in Afghanistan; they are in Jersey City and Minneapolis. The easiest way to stop the next Al Qaeda terrorist attack is to end immigration from the Muslim world.
In Israel, it was Rabin who stated that Gaza had to be taken out of Tel Aviv and who began the construction of the West Bank security barrier because he realized that terrorism would destroy the peace process. An American Rabin may well be a liberal who is forced to come to the realization that the only way to avoid constant conflicts with the Muslim world is to begin cutting off the flow of Muslim immigrants to America.
Such a realization, if it ever comes, is still a long way off. For now the drone war remains a clumsy fallback position. As long as there are no major terrorist attacks, the limited drone strikes are enough to satisfy most Americans. But when one of the Al Qaeda franchises begins poring over blueprints of a major American landmark and another September 11 follows, then the question that has been held in abeyance after Afghanistan will suddenly reappear. What do we do now?
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- Rick21/2/13
I think the answer to your question "what do we do now?" can be found by looking a layer below the superficial actions of drone strikes.ReplyDelete
The important question is this: what is the underlying philosophy that's driving these actions? At the core of that philosophy, which exists in the minds of both Dems and Repubs, is altruism, sacrifice, duty. The US and its allies will continue to sacrifice themselves to their enemies, even while denying that's what they're doing. Obama takes it a step further: the outright destruction that comes from nihilism. He is being aided in his quest by hoards of egalitarians who don't understand or even care that they are headed off a cliff.
If the enemies of the US strike a larger blow, mark my words that the perpetrators will not be punished; they will be rewarded.
" watch the money start rolling in from the fat sheiks of the oil-swollen Gulf who ...like having their own terror armies. " "The easiest way to stop the next Al Qaeda terrorist attack is to end immigration from the Muslim world."ReplyDelete
The french have also their problems with Qatar who preys on Mali rich natural resources, oil, gas, uranium...And beside Qatar "having their own terror armies" in Mali to drive off the french, Qatar is also funding many housing, madrassas & mosques in France. And Qatar is thru Al Qaida calling for terror attacks in France in light of the Mali affair.
Consequently, "to end immigration from the Muslim world." is one aspect. But since the tragedy of 9/11 was 'economic Jihad' as the target were The world trade center, the Twin Towers... The west should also retaliate accordingly with economic sanctions, credible military threats and red lines against "the fat sheiks of the oil-swollen Gulf" vicious plans of 'economic Jihad' & 'immigration from the Muslim world' that bring with it Sharia Despotism & Islam Darkness expansion.
On the other hand, tackled must be the issue of those westerners that bark 'muliticulturalism' & 'tolerance', they must be portrayed as the western Islamo-Dhimmicrats tyrants, they are the Islam partners in crimes. As those two democratic values are obviously obsolete in the face of those westerners wickedness & Islam ruthlessness.
Joseph E Givatayim, Israel .
Yeh , and ten years from now the Military will start crying that they "won" ALL the battles, and were "stabed in the back" by the "hippies" "news media" and "anti-war zelots" . You know the same crap they have been spouting about Veitnam for twentyfive years. Maybe this time they will just blame the jews.ReplyDelete
When did the lie that Islam is a religion of peace and the misbelief that Islamists were sincere and trustworthy begin?ReplyDelete
A business deal is one thing, but stationing our valuable human resources in these hell-holes is another.
Even the Peace Corps has stopped feeding young white American girls to the rapists and murderers of Islamic countries.
- Conservative Language Institute of America21/2/13
Instead of kicking ass in Afghanistan and immediately getting out, we're forever "building democracy" everywhere.ReplyDelete
Instead of keeping hostile cultures out of the US, we're importing more carriers of them daily.
Instead of enacting a uniform immigration policy for what could then have been only external groups, we've surrendered our liberty to Homeland Security which menaces everyone both internal and external.
These policies simply cannot continue without some form of destruction coming upon us.
Stopping the flow of Islamic immigration, even if it happens, will be too late.ReplyDelete
What one has to consider now is how to reverse the tide. A possible way is to create a schism between the West and the Muslim world. We are, whether we realise it or not, doing this.None of this Abrahamaic RoP BS.
The West Bank security barrier should have been built long before it was. It would have saved hundreds of Jewish lives - and so would have been an active anti-terror policy designed to kill terrorists and more importantly, bring down the Arafat regime..ReplyDelete
As in Britain, which is already a lost territory, I'm afraid your words will fall on stony ground. But keep writing them; who knows? One day someone may emerge from the younger generation who understands - and has leadership qualities that may turn the tide. It will be a different world by then of course, but out of the chaos of failed civilisations, others have emerged, It is the story of flawed humanity. Islamic barbarism is sporadic and luckily has inherent failure characteristics. Trouble is, like many other insidious viruses, it lies doggo, seething, and waits for the weakness of the Infidels to become sufficiently manifest, then reactivates. Currently it has piggy-backed on the latest resurgence of modified Marxism and reached the White House; Europe is already a goner.ReplyDelete
It has to get much worse before it can get better. History seems to show Marxism (which Marx didn't invent by the way - it is the crystallisation of envy - one of the seven deady sins) and Islamism always overreach their own ambitions; free societies will, as ever, emerge from the scorched earth left by self destructive idiocies. You and I have shared some of the good times and freedoms, sad that we'll die in one of the darker eras - but we had our fun, not sure our children will have similar opportunities.
It's worth reading Alexander Boot's latest post on Marxism, Daniel; it dovetails nicely with your excellent, seminal essay:
Thanks once again for your thoughts.
Frank P
With the election and re-election of B. Hussein the whole thing has turned into a cosmic joke. Who is fighting whom? For what purpose? What is real and what is just for show? Whose side is he on?ReplyDelete
You can't 'fix' the Dark Ages by leaving them in the Dark Ages and then complaining they're not enlightened and liberal and tolerant and allowing gay marriages and free weed. They're in the Dark Ages and this is what the Dark Ages looks like. You can't bring them styrofoam wrapped fast food and hope they all turn into Chicago community organizers.ReplyDelete
To TL Winslow aboveReplyDelete
This is a ridiculous plan that will bankrupt the US by assuring that 70 or so million people will go on welfare and only people who support this state of affairs will be elected. When idiots have zillions of babies they can't themselves support but the taxpayers have to what you wind up with is Idiocracy.
America has won wars, WW II and the Civial War, when we clearly identified the enemy, stated why we declared war against that enemy, and fought to utterly eradicate every trace of that enemy including the evil ideas that enemy held.ReplyDelete
Until we publicly identify Islam as an evil ideology, declare war against all of Islam including our so-called 'allies' Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and flatten every Islamic country which does not surrender immediately and rid itself of malicious slavery imposed on its people by Islam, we will continue to lose both the 'propaganda war' and the real fighting in which we are engaged.
Too risky? What we are doing now, wasting trillions and the lives of American military personnel on pathetic 'police actions' is simply a drawn out guaranteed loss, prolonged only by the (fortunate) relative incompetence of Islamics and the wealth accumulated by previous generations in this country.
Islam will never stop until the West is destroyed or Islam itself is wiped off the face of the earth. Anyone who believs otherwise is simply fooling themselves as Neville Chamberlain did in dealing with Hitler.
War with Islam is inevitable because, just like Naziism, Communism, Fascism, and all other forms of organized slavery and murder, Islamics hate and fear freedom and individual rights.
The only question is how many people will be sacrificed to the 'peace at any price' crowd before the war is fought.
We won WWII and the Civil War because we were fighting actual armies and could smash their industrial capacity. You can't keep every AK47 out of the hands of every goatherder and you can't occupy half the world indefinitely. We'll be more broke than the USSR was by the time we wise up.ReplyDelete
You're right. You can't disarm the globe. But you can take the war to those who buy the AK-47s for the terrorists who use them.
And yes, we may go broke (although I doubt it will ever be as bad as Russia), but the bankruptcy will come from grotesquely out of control federal entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and from state and local deficit spending, not from the defense budget which, although relatively large in recent years, is a small percentage of the federal budget.
- 11221/2/13
Where from here? Iran. It's where America should have gone in the first place. There, however, does exist an intellectual class that hates the Islamists. Take it and ban the koran and islamic schools there, obviously muslim immigration halts are crucial, and America will earn the love of a people and have another victory under its belt. Forget to ban islam, and better it would be that they never went there at all, because it will return with a vengeance, and the entire army stationed there won't change a thing.ReplyDelete
I agree, keep Muslimes outta the USA.ReplyDelete
Put it in the Constittution, make it a law, Ban Islam completely.
If Poland can do it , we can too.
Over at The Objective Standard Brook & Epstein argue this quagmire form of warfareis the result of enshrining Just War Theory to the exclusion of our own self-preservation.ReplyDelete
Rather than fight a war to make ourselves better off, we have to pretend we are fighting to make Afghans better off. To that end, we can't break too much stuff, we must always decide the child-molesting women-killing barbarians are just an innocent bystander in the conflict between "the radicals" and our generous offer of a better life.
Afghanistan should have been vaporized on Sept 12. A rogue ICBM or ten should have also landed in Pakistan, Iran, and Riyadh. We are better than them and we deserve to live while they chose to die.
A country that will not defend its people deserves no loyalty. In fact, loyalty to such a government is giving aid and comfort to tyranny.
That will never happen as long as our First Amendment remains in tact Paladin. Still, there are ways around it--limit immigration from Muslim nations and strictly forbid and crack down hard on illegal Muslim practices in the US and not try to incorporate them into either civil or criminal law.ReplyDelete
Make new immigrants renounce Islamic terrorism just as over a century ago new immigrants had to renounce certain things such as bigamy and anarchism.
Those are doable.
Regarding Israel--it's in a slightly different boat than the US. I still don't know if its leaders or citizens regard Gaza as a part of Israel worth recapturing, commonwealth or protectorate.ReplyDelete
The US isn't in such a position though that could potentially happen with Mexico:(
Re Gaza--I think it's worth fighting for, not only for the security of Israelis but the sheer potential beauty of the land. I've seen videos of Gaza Beach and the waves are amazing. Yeah, it's polluted but the potential is incredible.
Besides, what nation/city/community gives up waterfront land? It's insane.
- Anonymous22/2/13
In your belief that cutting immigration will happen one day, I think you are putting a lot more trust in politicians (Republican or Democrat) than I would. The idea that terror attacks one day will compel the US to halt immigration is based on the belief that terrorists will overcome the tolerance limit of the US. However, that is not likely to happen - at least not before infinite, possibly irreparable, damage has been done. What will more likely happen, instead, is that, as Islamic immigration increases into the US, the number of Muslims citizens (and consequently, voters) will outnumber the Jews (and other minority religions as well). At this point, politicians desperate for the Muslim vote to win the elections will force the US to start supporting the terrorists over Israel. By the time the US abandons a true ally like Israel, it will also already have abandoned other countries hit by Islamic terror like India, or large parts of Africa, or Serbia, or Russia, or maybe even good portions of Europe to the Islamists. By the time the US wakes up to the true threat of Islamic terrorism, the US will have lost all its credibility and will have few allies anywhere on earth. It will, at best, have to settle for securing its borders, leaving the rest of the world to Islam.ReplyDelete


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Growth Opportunities for U.S.-Colombia Textile TradeMay 21, 2012
Laurie Mease is a Business & Industry Specialist with the International Trade Administration's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA). Richard Stetson is an International Trade Specialist with OTEXA.
Yarn and fabric trade between the United States and Colombia has grown by more than 30 percent since 2002. And with the recent implementation of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, this figure is destined to grow in the coming years.
In 2008, we had the opportunity to visit Medellín, Colombia to participate in the Colombiatex trade show. We visited eight manufacturing facilities and were impressed with the diversity, sophistication, and maturity of the Colombian textile and apparel industry. We observed significant capital investment in machinery and technology. Many of the manufacturers have operations which encompass all of the necessary manufacturing processes under one roof: they spin yarn, knit and weave fabric, and assemble apparel. Unlike most of the textiles and apparel produced in Central America and the Caribbean, the majority of Colombia's products are intended for sale in Colombia's domestic market or for export to Venezuela, Mexico, and other markets in Latin America.
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The front page of today's Daily Star includes a dramatic photo of an explosion in Texas:
As Scott Bryan points out, the same photo is prominent on pages 8-9, illustrating their double page spread.
The Star is reporting on the explosion yesterday at a fertiliser plant in West, Texas.
Unfortunately, the photo the Star uses is from an explosion at an oil refinery in Big Spring, (west) Texas in 2008.
(Big hat-tip to Scott Bryan)
Friday, 19 April 2013
Star illustrates new story with photo from 2008
Posted by MacGuffin at 10:28
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Is it true that the Sun published a photo which was stated (or strongly implied) as being of the Thatcher funeral crowds, when it actually wasn't?ReplyDelete
From what I have heard, it was actually a picture Jubilee and the giveaway is the Shard in the background, clearly still under construction!
What on earth is nuclear about it anyway?ReplyDelete
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ISLAMABAD: The roars celebrating the re-election of US President Barack Obama on television give Mohammad Rehman Khan a searing headache, as years of grief and anger come rushing back.
The 28-year-old Pakistani accuses the president of robbing him of his father, three brothers and a nephew, all killed in a US drone attack a month after Obama first took office.
"The same person who attacked my home has gotten re-elected," he told Reuters in the capital, Islamabad, where he fled after the attack on his village in South Waziristan, one of several tribal areas near the Afghan border.
"Since yesterday, the pressure on my brain has increased. I remember all of the pain again."
In his re-election campaign, Obama gave no indication he would halt or alter the drone program, which he embraced in his first term to kill Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan without risking American lives.
Drone strikes are highly unpopular among many Pakistanis, who consider it a violation of sovereignty that causes unacceptable civilian casualties.
"Whenever he has a chance, Obama will bite Muslims like a snake. Look at how many people he has killed with drone attacks," said Haji Abdul Jabar, whose 23-year-old son was killed in such a bombing.
Analysts say anger over the unmanned aircraft may have helped the Taliban gain recruits, complicating efforts to stabilise the unruly border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. That could also hinder Obama's plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
Obama authorised nearly 300 drone strikes in Pakistan during his first four years in office, more than six times the number during the administration of George W. Bush, according to the New America Foundation policy institute.
Since 2004, a total of 337 US drone strikes in Pakistan have killed between 1,908 and 3,225 people.
The institute estimates around 15 per cent of those killed were non-militants, although that percentage has declined sharply to around one to two per cent this year. Washington says drone strikes are very accurate and cause minimal civilian deaths.
The Pakistani government says tens of thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in the fight against the Taliban insurgency. Many were civilians caught in suicide bombings. Others were killed by the Pakistani army.
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Getting accurate data on casualties and the effects of drones is extremely difficult since the government allows few foreigners into the tribal areas and the Taliban often seal off the sites of strikes.
While the aerial campaign has weakened Al Qaeda, its ally, the Pakistani Taliban, remains a potent force despite a series of Pakistan army offensives against its strongholds in the northwest.
Seen as the biggest security threat to the Pakistani government, the Pakistani Taliban have been blamed for many of the suicide bombings across Pakistan, and a number of high profile attacks on military and police facilities.
"We are amazed that Obama has been re-elected. But for us there is no difference between Obama and Romney; both are enemies. And we will keep up our jihad and fight alongside our Afghan brothers to get the Americans out of Afghanistan," said Pakistan Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan.
On Thursday, a suicide bomber rammed the gates of a paramilitary base in Karachi, killing at least one soldier and wounding more than a dozen people.
Pakistanis were largely indifferent in the run-up to Tuesday's election, expecting little change to the drone attacks regardless of whether Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney won.
"Any American, whether Obama or Mitt Romney, is cruel," said Warshameen Jaan Haji, whose neighbourhood was struck by a drone last week, told Reuters on the eve of the election. "I lost my wife in the drone attack and my children are injured. Whatever happens, it will be bad for Muslims."
For Khan, the Feb 2009 drone attack on his home left him as the main provider for 13 surviving family members, forcing him to move to Islamabad and work with a real estate company.
"When the Sandy hurricane came, I thought that Allah would wipe away America," he said. "America just wants to take over the world."


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In 2018/19 MY, the Ukrainian market of flaxseed continued demonstrating several anti-records. Thus, the export volumes of the oilseed almost halved compared with the last year level, due to reduction of the harvest to the 10-year minimum — 23 thsd tonnes. According to APK-Inform figures, in the current season flaxseed exports will total nearly 12 thsd tonnes (down 47% compared with 2017/18 MY, which will become the minimum level for 5 recent seasons).
Moreover, in the new season there is almost no chance for increasing of flaxseed production in the country, because the planted areas under the oilseed for the harvest-2019 again decreased, and the oilseed yield is very low. But even in terms of increasing of the figures, the yield will only partially compensate the losses due to the significant reduction of the planted areas, said the oilseed market analyst at APK-Inform Agency, Julia Ivanitskaya.
According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, agrarians planted flaxseed for the harvest-2019 throughout the areas of 17.7 thsd ha, which will become the minimum level for 15 recent years. In terms of reaching of the yield of flaxseed in the current year at the average level of three recent years (1.03 t/ha), Ukrainian agrarians can harvest nearly 18 thsd tonnes of the oilseed (down 24% compared with 2018). In such case, the harvest and shipment volumes of flaxseed will reach its minimum level for 12 recent years.
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You have a vintage car, but you have normal ears and want a sound system that's up with the times. RetroSound's new classically styled Model Two in-dash radio runs like a new-fangled modern setup because it is a new-fangled modern setup, with Bluetooth and all.
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By Balasubramanian Somasundram, Honeywell Technology Solutions Ltd.
Of late, the online media is flooded with plenty of articles/opinions on the future of Enterprise IT and CIO roles in next decades! It's interesting to read many different perspectives on the possibilities.
But the biggest question is – Why now? Why do we see such futuristic, inspirational, transformational viewpoints doing the rounds these days? I strongly believe that Enterprise IT is at its inflection point due to two main mega trends happening in the industry.
One is the introduction of Cloud Computing, and another is IT getting pervasive and embedded in almost all products and services that touch the end consumer. The irony is, these trends pose the biggest threats and biggest opportunities! I am going to talk about the opportunities here.
As mentioned in the CIO.com article, "The Cloud CIO: A Tale of Two IT Futures," one of the potential approaches for leveraging these trends could be to push Enterprise IT's non-core portfolio to Cloud Computing and divest those saved efforts in partnering with business to build new products and services. Here is an interesting perspective published in InformationWeek where Chris Murphy takes a stand that IT must create products, not just cut costs.
I also believe the fundamental capability that would enable the Enterprise IT to accomplish this transition is IT's Enterprise Architecture competencies. Enterprise IT organizations that have their strengths in architecture competencies — such as Technology Architecture, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture and Infrastructure Architecture — are bound to succeed in the mega trends of Cloud Computing and business partnering!
Adoption of emerging technologies and combining them with suitable business scenarios to deliver a compelling business solution calls for a strong Solution Architecture practice. The Solution Architecture is the System/Technical Architecture that realizes the Business Architecture scenarios. Similarly, identification of non-core areas in the business/IT portfolio and transitioning to Cloud Computing requires a systemic view of the Enterprise and it should address the critical concerns such as data governance, security and infrastructure architecture.
In addition, IT's traditional strengths such as project management, cost efficiency, security, licensing and software maintenance would be a big boon for software-intensive product businesses. These competencies in combination with Enterprise Architecture would be the stepping stone for the next biggest leap of Enterprise IT!
Balasubramanian Somasundaram is an Enterprise Architect with Honeywell Technology Solutions Ltd, Bangalore, a division of Honeywell Inc, USA. Bala has been with Honeywell Technology Solutions for the past five years and contributed in several technology roles. His current responsibilities include Architecture/Technology Planning and Governance, Solution Architecture Definition for business-critical programs, and Technical oversight/Review for programs delivered from Honeywell IT India center. With more than 12 years of experience in the IT services industry, Bala has worked with variety of technologies with a focus on IT architecture practice. His current interests include Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing and Mobile Applications. He periodically writes about emerging technology trends that impact the Enterprise IT space on his blog. Bala holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from MKU University, India.


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The $250 Nook Tablet isn't a completely new product or a radical overhaul of the Nook Color. It's still a 7-inch tablet packing wi-fi and 16GB of storage. But in addition to making it thinner, and lighter, they've crammed in a 1GHz dual-core processor as well.
The Nook Tablet using the same 1024x600 display as the Nook Color and is rumored to be running a TI OMAP4 processor. It packs 1 gigabyte of RAM, weighs less than a pound, and has 11.5 hours of battery life. The Nook still uses a custom UI built on top of Android 2.3, which means that this isn't an all-purpose, run-any-app tablet, but one geared towards very specific functions (books, magazines, email, web-browsing, videos, etc.). But they've partnered with select developers to create specialized apps for the device. So it will run games (yes, Angry Birds), in additon to music and video services like Netflix and Pandora.
Briefly seeing the Nook Tablet in action, it's hard to image what the dual-core CPU and gig of RAM are being used on. I wasn't expecting mind-blowing performance, but I've seen lesser spec'd devices with more polish. Barnes and Noble handlers didn't allow me to play around with the device on my own, but watching it in action, the sluggishness of the UI and browsing was noticeable. Menu and app transitions, along with page turns and scrolling looked choppy and somewhat unresponsive. The homescreen UI wasn't as affected as, say, the web browser, but I was hardly wowed by what I saw. Pages seemed to render quickly enough, but that could have been a cached page. Web pages, especially, panned and zoomed with the fluidity of a first generation Android device.
After the event, I got a chance to play with the Nook Tablet some more. Maybe the first device was glitching or running too many apps in the background, but the second unit was much more fluid and responsive. It still had some lagginess, and web browsing wasn't amazing, but it was definitely better. eBooks and magazines especially. Long story short, it was much more in line for what's expected in a $250 device.
Media and gaming apps seemed to fare better. Netflix videos, streamig in HD, looked fluid, with only a hiccup or two over the course of a minute-long clip. Bejeweled, admittedly not a game that would tax the Nook Tablet hardware, looked as smooth as it would on other devices.
And of course, they're serving up books, comics and magazines. Barnes and Noble says that over 235 magazines will be available this year, and will offer the largest selection of Marvel comics and graphic novels.
Barnes and Noble will also offer a free cloud service with the Nook Tablet, which will store your purchases and downloads, allowing you to delete and redownload content on a whim (provided you have a wi-fi connection).
Barnes and Noble is very much positioning this device against Amazon's Kindle Fire, claiming their Nook tablet has a superior screen, and touting the fact it is lighter and has more RAM and storage. But those bumped up specs comes at a higher price. The Nook will be available next week for $250 at Barnes and Nobles stores, along with select retail partners.
But those aren't the only updates. The Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch each received $50 price cuts, now costing $200 and $100, respectively. [Barnes and Noble]


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In a remarkable parallel with a similar turning point in the Vietnam War 44 years ago, President Barack Obama will preside over a series of meetings in the coming weeks that will determine whether the United States will proceed with an escalation of the Afghanistan War or adjust the strategy to reduce the U.S. military commitment there.
The meetings will take place in the context of a request from Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, for 40,000 additional troops, which reached Washington over the weekend. That would bring the total U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan to 108,000 – nearly a 60-percent increase.
Obama has hinted at serious doubts about being drawn more deeply into the war in Afghanistan, and administration officials have signaled that a key issue is whether the proposed counterinsurgency war could be won.
A plan backed by Vice President Joe Biden to scale back U.S. forces in Afghanistan and to focus more narrowly on al Qaeda was one of the options discussed at a Sep. 13 meeting of top administration officials, according to a report in The Age (Melbourne) Friday. That plan would reportedly depend on U.S. Special Forces to track down al Qaeda and ratchet down the counterinsurgency war.
But the decisions that emerge from the coming meetings are more likely to be shaped primarily by the concerns of the military and of the White House about being blamed for a defeat in Afghanistan that now seems far more likely than it did just six months ago.
In that regard, the approaching White House meetings recall similar consultations in June 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson and his civilian advisers responded to a request from Gen. William Westmoreland and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a major troop increase in South Vietnam by discussing ways to limit the U.S. military commitment in South Vietnam.
President Johnson, Secretary of Defence Robert S. McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy were all doubtful that the war could be won even with a much larger troop commitment.
Johnson, like Obama today, also had an alternative to further escalation of the war – a proposal for a negotiated settlement from Undersecretary of State George Ball, which was strongly opposed by others in Johnson's national security team, including McNamara.
But a few weeks later, Johnson went along with an open-ended troop commitment in Vietnam because he was unwilling to face the likelihood of charges by the military that he was responsible for the loss of South Vietnam.
In a series of appearances on Sunday talk shows Sep. 20, Obama signaled that he wants to avoid getting more deeply involved in Afghanistan, although he left the door open to approving more troops. "Until I'm satisfied that we've got the right strategy," he said on NBC's Meet the Press, "I'm not going to be sending some young man or woman over there – beyond what we already have."
In a news conference Friday, Obama raised the issue of whether there is "a sense of legitimacy… among the Afghan people – for their government," without which, he said, the U.S. task would be "much more difficult", obviously referring to President Hamid Karzai's rigging of last month's election.
Obama is questioning whether a counterinsurgency war is feasible under the existing conditions in Afghanistan. In a Sep. 21 interview with Josh Rogin of The Cable that was obviously cleared with the White House, Assistant Secretary of Defence Michele Flournoy referred to "an uncertain outcome" in Afghanistan.
In an initial round of debate on Afghanistan during Obama's first weeks last January and February, Biden argued that the war plan would be far too costly and might not succeed, as Michael Crowley reported in the Sep. 24 New Republic.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Afghanistan coordinator Richard Holbrooke supported the military's proposal, however. In the end, Obama compromised with the military, approving 17,000 of the 30,000 troop request, even in the absence of a clear strategy.
But the White House let it be known that it was not committed to a full-fledged counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan. Obama's insistence in his Mar. 27 speech that the U.S. objective in Afghanistan was to defeat al Qaeda now appears to have been a sign that he was determined to keep his options open.
McChrystal's "initial assessment" declaring that "failure to provide adequate resources" would probably result in "mission failure", was sent to Washington Aug. 31, but weeks passed without any signal from the White House that it was ready to entertain a troop request.
That provoked complaints from McChrystal's staff expressing unhappiness with the delay, according to a report by McClatchy newspapers Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef Sep. 18.
Then McChrystal's assessment was leaked to the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, generating a big headline in the Sep. 21 Washington Post about McChrystal's warning of "mission failure". That leak was obviously aimed at making it more difficult for Obama to turn down his eventual troop deployment request.
But McChrystal's "initial assessment" presents such a formidable array of obstacles to the success of a counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan that it could be seen as an invitation to the president to reject the strategy.
Both leaking such a relatively bleak assessment and requesting 40,000 more troops may have been aimed primarily at ensuring that McChrystal and his boss, Gen. David Petraeus, cannot be blamed for defeat. Petraeus and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have closed ranks behind McChrystal's strategy and can be expected to endorse his troop request.
"Military commanders are always going to ask for more troops," says Larry Korb, senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress and a former assistant secretary of defence. "They figure if they don't ask for more, and it doesn't go well, they could be blamed."
For the White House, fears of being blamed for having failed to provide sufficient troops are exacerbated if key national security officials are supporting the military position rather than the president. In June 1965, Johnson initially leaned toward holding the line against open-ended escalation, because he thought he had the support of his defence secretary, McNamara, which he felt gave him the needed political cover.
But when McNamara shifted his position to one of support for the troop level requested by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Johnson gave in to the military.
Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, who was chosen by Obama to provide "political cover" on national security policy, may play the same spoiler role as McNamara did in 1965 in regard to Obama's desire to avoid escalation.
Gates has remained publicly undecided on the troop increase issue. But on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, he declared that being defeated by the Taliban in Afghanistan would have "catastrophic effects", by "energising" al Qaeda recruitment, operations and fundraising.
Gates, Clinton and Holbrooke are likely to press Obama to go along with at least a large part of the McChrystal troop request, arguing that the war cannot be abandoned. They will argue that the Obama's presidency cannot survive an open breach with the military, and that Republican senators are already poised to attack Obama as weak if he fails to provide whatever McChrystal requests.
Obama could still argue that conditions in Afghanistan have changed, and that U.S. objectives there must now be adjusted. But he would have to do battle with his military leadership, the Republicans and his own national security advisers.
The high political price that the forces arrayed behind the war in Afghanistan are prepared to exact on Obama for reining in the present war may compel him to compromise with them once again.
GARETH PORTER is an investigative historian and journalist with Inter-Press Service specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam", was published in 2006.


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Not just credit cards: More apps offer ways to get cash back
NEW YORK — Cash back is not just for credit cards. More apps and websites are offering ways to earn money on the stuff you buy — as long as you're willing to sign up and make a few taps or clicks.
Groupon, RetailMeNot and others work with restaurants and retailers to offer cash back for their users. In return, they get a cut of the sales made.
But shoppers have to do some work for the money. You may need to link a credit or debit card, or visit the app before you shop to unlock the deal. And then there's the fine print to read: Some will offer money back, but only up to a certain amount. And in most cases, debit card purchases need to be processed at the register as a credit card; typing in a personal identification number won't earn you the cash back.
It's not a way to make a quick buck: It can take days or even weeks for a purchase to be verified before the money is added to an account. But the money can add up over time. Here's a look at some cash back apps:
— RESTAURANTS: Deal site Groupon launched its cash back offering last fall for local restaurants and chains such as Dunkin' Donuts, Panda Express and Starbucks. Called Groupon+, a credit or debit card needs to be linked and then a deal for a specific store has to be claimed. When the card is used at that restaurant, the cash back amount is refunded to the card's account. Groupon+ is available in 25 metro areas, and the company plans to expand it.
— MAJOR RETAILERS: Both Ebates and RetailMeNot offer cash back for in-store and online purchases at Amazon.com, Sephora and many other well-known retailers. For in-store purchases, link your credit or debit card and choose the store's offer before you shop. For online purchases, go to Ebates or RetailMeNot first, tap a link to the store and then shop. But an easier way is to install Ebates or RetailMeNot buttons to your web browser. The buttons will alert you if the online store you're shopping at has a cash back offer.
— GROCERY STORES AND MORE: Ibotta's focus is offering money back on specific products, like 25 cents on apples, 50 cents on Cottonelle toilet paper or $1 back on Totino's frozen pizza rolls. You'll need to buy from stores it partners with, including Albertsons, Walmart and Target. But remember to save the receipt: it needs to be scanned through the Ibotta app to prove you made the purchase. The cash earned is put into an Ibotta account and then can be withdrawn to a PayPal or Venmo account when it reaches $20. Ibotta's deals go beyond the supermarket at Amazon.com, Jet.com and for ride-hailing app Uber.
Another app, called Drop, lets you earn points that can be turned into store gift cards. The app asks you to pick five brands that you want to earn points for; among the options are Trader Joe's, Macy's and McDonald's. A credit or debit card needs to be linked, and points are earned automatically when the card is used.
Contact Joseph Pisani at http://twitter.com/josephpisani
Joseph Pisani, The Associated Press
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A Blanding Memorial Committee has been formed to oversee the creation of a Public Service Memorial to be located on the north side of the Blanding Visitors' Center. The Committee recently presented the idea to the Blanding City Council.
It is proposed that a monument structure will consist of a three-sided design honoring those in Blanding who have served past or present. The first side of the design to depict honorees who served in the armed forces; the second side for those who have served in law enforcement, fire and emergency services; and, the third side to honor the families of those who served.
The proposal also includes a Book of Remembrance to be placed in the visitors' center where the names and stories of the honorees will be memorialized.
The Memorial Committee is seeking input from the public in the way of design ideas of the monument structure. The graphics design class at the high school will also participate submitting graphic design ideas created by students.
Anyone who is interested may submit design ideas, including conceptual design, graphics and wording, of the monument. The person whose design is selected will be recognized with a cash award.
All ideas are welcomed and can be sent to Public Service Memorial Committee, Blanding City Office, 50 West 100 South in Blanding.
The dedication ceremony of the Memorial is scheduled for Memorial Day, 2008.
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While we've already seen one new German-themed quest released in ChefVille this week with it an upgrade to the Hofbrau Skillet, there's an additional timed series available to tackle. The thing is, it's probably buried among the many Chinese New Year event quests that have also been rolled out this week, so its timer has already started counting down. These three "Guten Appetit" quests will be available for just five days, and they'll see you visiting your neighbors, asking friends for items, and of course, cooking lots of dishes. We're here with a look at these new quests, thanks to Zynga.
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Earn 2 Mastery Stars for Spaetzle
Collect 11 Rauchermannchen Statues
Tend 10 Neighbors' Chicken Coops or Egg Fridges
The Statues are earned by posting a general news item to your wall for help, but you can only earn a maximum of five Statues per request posted. This means that you'll need to keep coming back to the game and posting additional news posts whenever the game lets you (normally every four or six hours). As for the Spaetzle, this is a dish that is cooked on the Intermediate level of the Hofbrau Skillet (pictured below). When you complete this quest, you'll receive the 11 statues as decorations for your restaurant, a Beef Broth ingredient and 15 XP.
German Engineering
Serve Bratwurst with Sauerkraut 7 Times
Earn 3 Mastery Stars on Knackwurst
Give 15 Chef's Services on Sauerbraten
The best way to complete this chef's services task is to wait to serve this dish until it's the only dish that will be available in your entire restaurant. That way, you're guaranteed to see requests for just this dish, and can rack up 15 servings faster than you might be able to otherwise. You'll receive two Beef Broth, two Red Sauerkraut, and 15 XP for completing this quest.
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Craft 4 Red Sauerkraut
Earn 2 Mastery Stars on Potato Pancakes
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The Red Sauerkraut is crafted inside the Stone Fermenter. You'll need to use Red Cabbage to create the Red Sauerkraut. As for the Potato Stall, this is a 2,000 coin ingredient stall that is purchased in the store. Even though you need to tend Stalls 12 times, you can have up to four of them in your restaurant at once, so this task won't take as long to complete as it might initially appear. For completing this final quest, you'll receive a Mounted Stag decoration, two Instant Thymes, and 50 XP.
Zynga may change some of the details about these quests between now and their expiration date, but we wish you the best of luck in completing them either way.
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