Spring 050303
Saturday, May 3, 2003
Three drawings here, doing some catch up, in chronological order:
May 1
May 2
May 3
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Diplomatic Breakdown
The author, a career diplomat, quit his job at the US Embassy in Athens because he could not defend the war in Iraq and a foreign policy that he sees as dangerous to America.
by John Brady Kiesling
A legitimate war meant persuading key world leaders that the danger of leaving Hussein in place outweighed the danger of attempting to replace him. We had no arguments that would convince skeptics of this, partly because the intelligence information we were willing to share was weak, partly because our grasp of history and human nature was shaky, but largely because key spokesmen of the administration – including the president himself – had set forth a vision of America's arbitrary role in the world that few foreign leaders could endorse.
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A power failure and network problems meant our server was inaccessible from Thursday morning until Friday just after noon. Our server was fine and running, but the hubs for the subnet our server is on in Barrows were down. So, dang, no flip on Thursday. I tried resetting my timezone to see if I could go far enough back to actually flip on Thursday, but instead I accidentally set my timezone past the International Date Line and leapfrogged over Friday, so that when I flipped it was Saturday. Dumb. And there is no undo. This is one thing I do not like about Manila. I have table drawings for Thursday and Friday to post, as well as for Saturday. Will do this later.
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