|
|||||
|
From Londonstani at Abu Muqawama: Renaming NWFP to “Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa”, is part of a raft of legal changes that were passed by parliament on Thursday. The 18th amendment to the constitution, as it’s called by the local press, basically erases changes made to Pakistan’s 1973 constitution by General Zia ul Haq and later General Parvez Musharraf. From the [...] Abu Muqawama excerpts Emanuel Derman and Paul Wilmotts’ Financial Modelers’ Manifesto: Physics, because of its astonishing success at predicting the future behavior of material objects from their present state, has inspired most financial modeling. Physicists study the world by repeating the same experiments over and over again to discover forces and their almost magical mathematical laws. [...] From Tom Friedman in the NYT: For every Predator missile we fire at an Al Qaeda target here, we should help Yemen build 50 new modern schools that teach science and math and critical thinking — to boys and girls… Islamism is not producing any Sakharovs. From Abu Muqawama: Building schools is a lovely thing, and as the [...] Here’s the Wikipedia entry. From Abu Muqawama on the 28th: A suicide bomber killed around 30 people in Karachi today during traditional Shia Muharram ceremonies. It’s not clear at this point whether the attack was part of Karachi’s long-simmering sectarian problems, a statement of intent by the Pakistani Taliban to expand into the country’s biggest city, or [...] Abu Muqawama has a new home at CNAS. Here’s the Google entry for Kilkullen‘s book. Charlie at Abu Muqawama brings us back up to speed on the ISI in Pakistan: That the ISI maintains relationships with some rather unsavory folks in the tribal areas is old news. What does seem to be new is the intensity of American pressure and an implied suggestion that ISI elements may have been involved in [...] From LTC Gian Gentile as quoted by Dr. iRack at Abu Muqawama: In 2005, the president himself committed the United States to a “clear, hold and build” doctrine in his “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq,” even as the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command devised a new counterinsurgency doctrine, units at training centers immersed themselves in [...] From Dr. iRack at Abu Muqawama: Notice that the U.S. and Iran have discovered a mutuality of interest in combating Sadr/JAM in the south, yet the Iranians appear to be continuing support for Sadr/JAM in Sadr City (Baghdad). What gives? Well, down south, the fight is mainly an intra-Shia conflict, Iraqi forces are in the lead, [...] From Abu Muqawama: This week or next there is likely to be a major Bush administration briefing laying out new evidence of “malign” Iranian involvement in Iraq. I suspect the briefing will be given by MNF-I or the Baghdad Embassy, or both. It will pick up on a major theme of the recent Petraeus/Crocker testimony: Iran, [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Vie de Malchance - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
Recent Comments