A reader sent me this link from the New York Times.
The general and I also found ourselves talking about what can happen when the three extremes — poverty, ideology and climate — come together. We found ourselves discussing the stretch of land that runs across the continent of Africa, just along the creeping sands of the Sahara — an area that includes Sudan and northern Nigeria. He also agreed that many people didn’t see that the Horn of Africa — the troubled region that encompasses Somalia and Ethiopia — is a classic case of the three extremes becoming an unholy trinity (I’m paraphrasing) and threatening peace and stability around the world.
The military man also offered me an equation. Stability = security + development. In an asymmetrical war, he said, the emphasis had to be on making American foreign policy conform to that formula.
Meanwhile in ass hat land...
Obama is giving the American immune system AIDS.
...but if you support this weakening of our defenses and the politicians that call for them, then you become responsible for the consequences of the next attack
Huh. Now which side is it that is divisive and hyper paranoid?
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Which I counter with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stij8sUybx0
Danny, that you?
I don't think you can compare the climate change folks with people that claim Barack Obama is making this country weaker by talking to people. One is backed by scientific data and the other by hate and paranoia.
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