Saturday, January 16, 2010

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War symmetric and the role of religion

start with a very important document , Religion and Resistance: Examining the Role of Religion in Irregular Warfare for the originality of the reflection generally, and strangely lacking in the usual military treaties that will face in passing the role of religion in asymmetric warfare. This criticism also applies to the new Bible of the American army, the Counterinsurgency Field Manua l in 2006 by graduates of the officers of Petraeus, from Kilcullen to Nagl. E 'by the Canadian military, a more attentive of hosts and experts from other missions in conventional war, not a document nuovisimmo (March 2009) but in fact it is original and useful because it tended to fill the void of the traditional underestimation of the role of religion as a factor of social cohesion, which builds heavy element, or at least influence, all other areas of life. Anyway, it is strange that gap, because indeed the character of the majority of post-Cold War insurgencies, where the religious character has replaced the ideological justification policy that also had a strong spiritual component, though distorted.

modern war and Al Qaida

Philip Bobbit is a political philosopher and student of military matters which we have already spoken to his two famous books, The Shield of Achilles s (The Shield of Achilles) and Consent and Trerror
both on the transformation of war and the meaning of terrorism in the twenty-first century.

Now the weekly Newsweek wrote a compelling piece 9 in the fight against terrorism in the post September 11 . In the debate that has opened in the U.S. after the recent terrorist attempts and have seen polarize the positions for and against Obama, too soft on terrorists, or even a follower of the Bush-Cheney line, Bobbit draws a pretty good argument. The Bush administration was right to consider the old status quo legislative inadequate before the new challenges posed by Al Qaeda, but the sin of "decisions emergency" (the phrase is mine) because she refused to pass new acts (including which wiretapping, preventive detention) through discussion of the Congress. Bobbit Now for the fight against modern terrorism è essenzialmente una lotta di legittimazione e di diritto. Nella lotta contro nemici non statali – che non è contessa nè per il territorio né per la conquista di risorse naturali - il significato di vittoria va al di là della sconfitta del nemico, ma significa difesa dei civili nel rispetto della legge. Ed è quello che ha fatto Petraeus in Iraq. "Se le leggi sono inadeguate, esse vanno adattate al nuovo contesto strategico".

Sempre sullo stesso periodico, vi è un altro notevole articolo (ma perché i direttori italiani non imparano?) sul significato di "vittoria" nelle guerre moderne, Addio alla vittoria. Una volta le guerre finivano con vincitori e perdenti, now they are complicated . E 'complementary to the previous article and based on the thesis scholar at Columbia Page Fortna argues that if more "war like love is easier to start than to finish," now in the post-Cold War wars modern data in hand, the great majority can not terminate while from 1816 to 1948 the percentage was much higher: over 50%. Why? Because the war has changed, because the most powerful states do not translate their military superiority in the military prevented by a legal and moral framework, national and international level, quite different from that of fifty years ago, because few wars are symmetrical because they are changed or the reasons why you go to war and so on.

USA

The state of the state: a proposal for the reorganization of Foggy Bottom . E 'a study proposed by PPI, Progressive Policy Institute , Foggy Bottom is the name of the State Department, which takes its name from the district where located in Washington. The problem that the Obama Administration is held accountable for nothing is simple: one part due to Sept. 11 there has been a crescendo of tasks and at the same time to a militarization of the assistance, other globalization and information revolution have made obsolete the old pyramid.

Lawrence Korb, assistant defense secretary in the administration Regan points out, rightly, in The generals should be guided by truth, not by politics
a central point in the division of labor between political and military, but you might say, between political and technical. Industry experts should not take political decisions, not for them, but not force reality to please policy. The generals have the responsibility to tell it like it is, even if they are unpleasant and in this regard riporta una serie di esempi. Per venire ai nostri giorni, i comandanti in Afghanistan precedenti a Mc Crystal hanno fatto quello che hanno potuto con i mezzi messi loro a disposizione, con quelle forze sul campo non potevano aver ragione del nemico.

Yemen

Frederik Kagan e Cristopher Harnisch commentano sul Wall Street Journal la situazione in Yemen dove il governo locale deve far fronte a due insorgenze diverse, Al Qaida e le popolazioni scite al nord appoggiate dall'Iran e contrastate dall'Arabia.Ora viste le simpatie, i rapporti tribali, religiosi e ideologici con Al Qaida, il governo di Sana percepisce come nemico principale gli irredentisti sciti e l'espansionismo regionale di Theran, while for the West Stow Lake and of course the greatest danger is the opposite or at least the two enemies are not barter. At the same time it is clear that the U.S. can not intervene with troops and start wars all over the world. Kagan offers a simple solution: if you want to be helped Yemen against Iran, it must then engage in the fight against Al Qaida, starting to cleanse his ill-placed intelligence, How to apply the 'smart power' in Yemen , precisely.

Afghanistan

Brezinski, the grand old man of American politics, with all hyper critical of Bush's policy against the war on terrorism world, has released a lengthy television interview on the Afghan war. Given the importance of the character, deserves to be heard ( first and second part ).


Friday, January 8, 2010

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Egypt, Gaza and Yemen. It is only the beginning of 2010

jahdista In the fight against terrorism, things just seem to go well, or at least better than the one somewhere here that just opens a bottomless pit by a ' other. Here comes the news from Yemen, the massacre of Christians from Egypt, the clashes in Gaza between Hamas and Egyptian security forces.

Be different from each other thousands of miles apart are actually united by a common thread: the array of religious leaders of action and violence as a political method. The most serious of them all, but one that explains everything, is the vicious murder of Coptic Christians and free due to a savage hatred that speaks volumes about the will to annihilation by Islamic extremists. If anyone still had not understood, the enemies to kill and subjugate us, is Jewish and the Christian West, to kill Muslims with secular Arab governments like Egypt and apostates. The tragic fate of Christians in the Middle East from Iraq to begin serious and appears to be the culpable silence of the cowardly Europe, always ready to raise their voices in defense of some minority super protetta a casa nostra, ormai diventata anche potente lobby ,e distratta invece quando si parla della difesa della nostra tradizione ormai minoranza.

Le violenze egiziane però la dicono lunga anche sulla fragilità delle istituzioni di quel paese che, finita l'epoca del nazionalismo panarabo, stenta a trovare una propria via tra modernità e tradizione e che ancora è sulla soglia di una realizzazione completa della democrazia. Compito non certo facile, specialmente se lo si affronta con una economia non certo florida e con profondi squilibri sociali, ma il nodo dell'assorbimento di gran parte dei movimenti tradizionalisti e fondamentalisti entro una dialettica democratica e pacifica è la chiave di volta per uscire, in a long and arduous process, the crisis Nasserian post.

Even Yemen, bears the scars of a long and difficult crossed by all the contradictions of the 900, decolonization, the dream of Arab nationalism, the mirage of socialism to fall in the grip of its ancestral contradictions, in a struggle between clans , ethnicities, religions, between Shiites and Sunnis, between Iran and Saudi Arabia, between Al Qaeda and the United States. Here America is facing a quagmire not easy because it has to juggle between two enemies at once: if by Bin Laden, like the September 11 attackers came to national security, the danger is greatest in regional strategic work del'Iran That can destabilize the entire region.

Paradoxical as it may be, the situation is better represented by the Palestinian issue, including the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been able to find a military solution to the throwing of missiles and suicide attacks against the second intifada. It may be objected that "the" solution, it is true because the carpet is the question of a Palestinian state, the symbolic aspect of the problem, the maintenance of a festering sore that infects all discourse on the Middle East, but much criticized by the wall sensitive souls and Western action against Gaza in 2009 resulted in a status quo that does not endanger Tel Aviv, and this result, the chaotic Middle Eastern world, is not a trivial factor. That the Israeli measures have worked, as demonstrated by the fact that some of them, such as the construction of the wall, was taken from Egypt to halt the continued smuggling of weapons to the luxury goods between the two countries. It can be argued that trafficking exists primarily because they lack the basic necessities because of the Israeli blockade and this is true, but does not take into account the point of departure is the absolute lack of the reality principle of the Arab world, Previous al'avvento fundamentalism. From Gaza, Israel is gone, leaving greenhouses and factories, because they destroy everything and start over to live in an economy where war to enrich themselves are always the same?

The starting point for any argument about peace, which can also consent to rhetoric and remain hidden and unspoken, lies in the need to recognize in all cases the state of affairs, the existence of the State of Israel, the ' impossible to reconstruct the global caliphate as the inability to escape from modernity. Otherwise the future we have left in front is represented by a management crisis in the Middle East a balance between military actions and policies, trying to keep the alert level is balanced between state building interventions, as in the case of Afghanistan 's Iraq, and targeted as now in Yemen. Balance is not easy.

Friday, December 18, 2009

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Especially during the Christmas and New Year candles again becoming more prevalent around us, than other times of the year, giving us the magical atmosphere that only they can send in the form of flame, hot and dancing as well as colors, shapes and fragrances.

As we all know the candle is technically a light source usually consisting of a cotton wick protruding from a cylinder made of solid fuel.
Before the discovery and distribution of electricity, candles were one of the primary sources illumination of the human race along with oil lamps. The candles were commonly used in northern Europe, while the olive oil lamps were more common in Mediterranean Europe.
A candle typically produces about 12.6 lumens of visible light for 40 watts of heat, although these values \u200b\u200bare subject to variability due mainly to the type of wick used. Just for a comparison of light, a 40-watt incandescent bulb produces about 500 lumens. The flame of a candle was also used as a measure originally defined to match the brightness of a light bulb equivalent.

Originally the creation of the candles took place only con elementi naturali quali la cera d'api o le cere vegetali (es. soia, palma, carnauba), mentre alcuni tipi di candela di fattura più pregiata utilizzavano la stearina, di origine non minerale, affinché la candela non colasse durante il suo consumo.

Oggigiorno invece le candele sono principalmente realizzate in paraffina che purtroppo è un sottoprodotto della raffinazione del petrolio .

La paraffina è il nome comune che viene dato ad una particolare miscela di idrocarburi solidi, in prevalenza alcani, le cui molecole presentano catene composte da più di 20 atomi di carbonio. È ricavata, come dicevamo precedentemente, dal petrolio and looks like a mass of waxy, white, insoluble in water and in acids.
was produced for the first time by the German Karl von Reichenbach in 1830 and its industrial preparation is now a fundamental part of the treatment of petroleum oils in the dewaxing operation is essential.


As regards its use in the manufacture of candles, the wax is usually added (up to 10%) with stearic acid (which is a carboxylic acid) in order to make it less fuse, to harden and to whiten.

Fortunately, though more rare on the market, you can still find the candles made with natural beeswax, stearin and vegetable waxes (usually palm, soy or carnauba) or, more rarely, tallow (but is a byproduct of animal fats).

The simplest method of production (also wanting to create do-it-yourself and home) is obtained by liquefaction of the wax through the controlled application of heat. The molten substance is then poured it into molds of various shapes, or is allowed to solidify around the wick into cotton for repetitive dives.
essences can be added to the wax to make scented candle.

The candles can also be colored by the addition of appropriate coloring, but usually in Candles are used in industrial dyes based on aniline (also known as phenylamino or Aniline is an aromatic compound whose basic structure is that of a benzene ). L ' aniline also is a substance with possible carcinogenic effects and is a poison . It appears as an oily liquid, characteristic odor and colorless-looking, but over time it oxidizes impurities and produces resinous, reddish-brown.

E 'to remember that the type of wick and the addition of scents and colors ( chemical-based and non-natural ) affect a lot, along with material of which the candle is made in determining the amount of dust and pollutants and hazardous substances (for health and the environment) released into the air during combustion.
Candles "cleaner" will therefore in general non-scented and colored, and chemically manufactured with natural products.

So let us again to be aware of our purchases in mind also that the candles called "craft" are not always synonymous with quality and wholesomeness of the product. In general, however, always find out as much as possible about the source of materials, their composition and mode of production and transport (In fact, even the candles can come from countries far from Italy, where materials and living conditions of those who produced them are at the limit, if not worse, legality and exploitation).