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#233530 - 04/03/07 06:57 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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another book thread. suggest good books on:
-israel/palestine conflict, the mossad, etc
-northern ireland conflict, related people/groups
-similar books on conflict, intelligence, international relations, diplomacy in general
cheers.
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#233531 - 04/03/07 07:02 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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i think fatman could wax lyrical on these topics, i should have waited til his return.
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#233533 - 04/03/07 07:29 PM
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fletcher FP FA harvard abstractsthere are clearly an assload more IR publications, but those tend to 1-not be semi-annual or totally outta date 2-be respected
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#233534 - 04/03/07 09:55 PM
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northern ireland conflict, related people/groups
The definitive book (from the Republican view) is The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan. The first edition came out long ago, he has updated it with new material each time it has been republished.
I recently finished Capturing Jonathan Pollard. Pollard is sitting in a federal prison for the next 20 years for selling over 400,000 pages of documents to Israeli intelligence. It's author was a former NIS operative.
If you get into military strategy, pretty much check out anything by Sam Sarkesian, a retired poli sci prefessor at Loyola University. His best ones are/were America's Forgotten Wars: The Counterrevolutionary Past and Lessons for the Future and The New Battlefield: The United States and Unconventional Conflicts. He's a big proponent of the U.S. low-intensity warfighting strategy, intially developed as a counterinsurgency alternative to combat the FSLN (Sandinistas) in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
And of course the Naval War College Review is always nice. Reading war planners discuss the viability of a forward maritime strategy in the North Sea with the aim of launching nuclear decapitation strikes on the Kremlin is a real hoot.
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#233535 - 04/03/07 10:29 PM
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" From Beirut to Jerusalem " by Thomas Friedman.
Read it and you will never need another book on Israel's Palestinian "problem".
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#233536 - 04/04/07 05:02 PM
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"By way of deception"...the true story of an Israeli Mossad agent. by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy
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#233537 - 04/04/07 06:49 PM
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" From Beirut to Jerusalem " by Thomas Friedman.
Read it and you will never need another book on Israel's Palestinian "problem".
C R E A T E Y O U R O W N
T H O M A S F R I E D M A N
O P - E D C O L U M N :
DISORDER AND DREAMS IN [COUNTRY IN THE NEWS]
BY [ ]
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Last week's events in [country in the news] were truly historic, although we may not know for years or even decades what their final meaning is. What's important, however, is that we focus on what these events mean [on the ground/in the street/to the citizens themselves]. The [media/current administration] seems too caught up in [worrying about/dissecting/spinning] the macro-level situation to pay attention to the important effects on daily life. Just call it missing the [desert for the sand/fields for the wheat/battle for the bullets].
When thinking about the recent turmoil, it's important to remember three things: One, people don't behave like [computer programs/billiard balls/migratory birds], so attempts to treat them as such inevitably look foolish. [Computer programs/Billiard balls/Migratory birds] never suddenly [blow themselves up/shift their course in order to fit with a predetermined set of beliefs/set up a black market for Western DVDs]. Two, [country in question] has spent decades [as a dictatorship closed to the world/being batted back and forth between colonial powers/torn by civil war and ethnic hatred], so a mindset of peace and stability will seem foreign and strange. And three, [hope/freedom/capitalism] is an extraordinarily powerful idea.
When I was in [country in question] last [week/month/August], I was amazed by the [people's basic desire for a stable life/level of Westernization for such a closed society/variety of the local cuisine], and that tells me two things. It tells me that the citizens of [country in question] have no shortage of [courage/potential entrepreneurs/root vegetables], and that is a good beginning to grow from. Second, it tells me that people in [country in question] are just like people anywhere else on this great globe of ours.
So what should we do about the chaos in [country in question]? Well, it's easier to start with what we should not do. We should not [ignore the problem and pretend it will go away/lob a handful of cruise missiles and hope that some explosions will snap [country in question]'s leaders to attention/let seemingly endless frustrations cause the people of [country in question] to doubt their chance at progress]. Beyond that, we need to be careful to nurture [the seeds of democratic ideals/the fragile foundations of peace/these first inklings of a moderate, modern society]. The opportunity is there, but I worry that the path to [peace/stability/moderation] is so [narrow/poorly marked/strewn with obstacles] that [country in question] will have to move down it very slowly.
Speaking with a local farmer on the last day of my recent visit, I asked him if there was any message that he wanted me to carry back home with me. He pondered for a second, and then smiled and said, "[Short phrase in indigenous language]," which is a local saying that means roughly, "[Every branch of the tree casts its own shadow/That tea is sweetest whose herbs have dried longest/A child knows his parents before the parents know their child]."
I don't know what [country in question] will be like a few years from now, but I do know that it will [probably look very different from the country we see now/remain true to its cultural heritage], even if it [remains true to its basic cultural heritage/looks very different from the country we see now]. I know this because, through all the disorder, the people still haven't lost sight of their dreams
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#233538 - 04/04/07 06:56 PM
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#233539 - 04/04/07 07:03 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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thanks for the suggestions guys. now the task is to find them and then find the time to read them. hmm.
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#233541 - 04/05/07 03:29 PM
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That was funny, Moxie. Do you dislike Friedman's writing or are you just busting balls?
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