Archive: February 10, 2005

Thursday, February 10, 2005

1. Matt Wretchard on North Korea:

   Well how about that? Kim Jong Il actually lied to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Who would have thought it possible? The problem with nuclear weapons nonproliferation agreements today is that they create the temptation to plan contingencies on the basis of intent rather than capability. North Korea is a case in point.

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2. Donald Sensing: liberals, Leftists and the Iraq war (to finish reading).

   Christopher Hitchens, certainly not a member of the VRWC, has distinguished between liberals/progressives and the Left, going so far as to say that today the Left has swung to the status of reactionary, not progressive or forward thinking. As I concluded, along with others who have addressed, the topic, "In a nutshell, liberals affirm while the Left despises the idea of America."

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3. Phillip has been writing a series of posts on optimizing MySQL that I'd like to go through when I get a chance.

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4. Slashdot | Symantec Antivirus May Execute Virus Code. Great. I don't use virus protection myself (though, not using Microsoft software wherever possible is itself virus protection), but I try to give my dad the extra protection of virus protection. He's now more vulnerable because of it. Crap.

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Josh Tabin on the Iraqi elections

John Tabin writes on the Iraqi elections (via Glenn):

The political calculation is simple: The constitution cannot be ratified if it is rejected by two-thirds or more voters in three provinces, and Sunni Arab leaders may thus be able to scuttle a constitution they don't like.

Which is why I've been arguing for a while that the multi-ethnic/religious makeup of Iraq may really be a good thing, not a problem as others have predicted. They all have to agree on a constitution.

And, reasons to be hopeful that things will turn out well in Iraq with Sistani taking the lead:

Sistani, for his part, according to a profile in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times, has been spending a lot of time studying constitutions, including the American, French, and German constitutions and the unwritten constitution of Britain, in an effort to get it right.

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