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John wrote a about the right wing orthodoxy of the GOP that makes no room for moderates. has a great article about the demise of Rudy's campaign. Lots of arrogance and bad decisions. But there was also a quote from a GOP consultant that pretty much sums up the state of the Republican party: ???It bordered on science fiction to think that someone as liberal on as many issues as Rudy Giuliani could become the Republican nominee ??? said Nelson Warfield a Republican consultant who has been a longtime critic of the former mayor. ???Rudy didn???t even care enough about conservatives to lie to us. The problem wasn???t the calendar; it was the candidate.??? If you care about conservatives lie to them. They accept that over an honest debate. That says so much about today's GOP.

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President Bush yesterday signed the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act after initially rejecting Congress`s first version because it would have allegedly opened the Iraqi government to `expensive lawsuits.` Even though he forced Congress to change its original bill Bush`s signature yesterday came with a little-noticed signing statement claiming that provisions in the law `could inhibit [...]

Eric Red has - the ones where he explained that he was 'bluffing' about WMD for regional reasons. In it one of his commenters pokes at my suggestion that the bluff made Saddam culpable for the invasion. Other folks ( ) also make the point that much of the sturm und drang that we are so geopolitically sensitive to is in fact inter-regional - i.e. the sabers being rattled are not necessarily aimed at us. Eric follows up with in our stance wrt Iran based on this. My in comments at Eric's site was: Short version: by the time Saddam started complying the invasion had an institutional logic - we weren't going to invade in summer fall or winter nor leave 200K troops sitting in Kuwait for the summer. The meta problem is that 'seeming' to have a gun will readily get you shot. Having said that I've called the invasion a 'strategic failure'; and believe it is even in the face of the apparent tactical success flowing from the surge. Let me try and unpack this a little and talk about three things: The rickety and unpredictable nature of large-scale human action; the humility planers and actors need to have in the face of that ricketyness; and the interaction between inter- and intra-regional issues - in a kind of homely metaphor. First of all let me reiterate a point I think I've made over and over again but which I obviously haven't made well enough about the nature of large-scale human action. As someone who has on occasion led large groups of people - I mean like twenty or thirty people - I have profound respect for the limitations of organizational precision. What Clausewitz called 'friction' is apparent in all human affairs - none so much as war - and it is important in discussing any large-scale human activity - whether business politics bureaucracy or warfare to keep in mind that the world looks a lot more like George McDonald Frasier than like Tom Clancy. In fact I would strongly recommend the Flashman books not just as a good set of reads but as a good window into how I think real human affairs really transpire. Boorish selfish limited people with incomplete information bad communication and half-blind views of the world - when they are sober - collide. They follow leaders who are noble and visionary primarily in retrospect. It's interesting that I picked up two other relevant books while I was in France - ' ' by Taleb which was my read on the flight out and ' ' by Dixon which I picked up used at Shakespeare & Co in Paris. I'd strongly suggest reading both of these. The reason is that actors on a large scale - at a national scale - have to take this slop into account. Which is why brinksmanship is so fraught with risk - and when it comes to Iran. Think of it as the "World War I" model; we've got these armies and we'll posture with them secure in the notion that we have absolute control. Except of course that we don't. And when we're signaling 'threat' the problem is a fractal one; the risk and uncertainty applies at a small scale as surely as at a large one. I talked about it at length : ...not to try and parse the blame for whatever faulty intelligence there may have been between Republicans and Democrats; I say it because reasonable smart well-informed people other than those in the Bush Administration believed that Saddam had WMD and was willing to use them. And so to look at the decision made to invade we have to look not in the light of the perfect information of hindsight but in the context of the imperfect information available - to the question of whether it was a toy gun or a real Desert Eagle. There are absolutely legitimate questions to ask about the quality of our intelligence about Iraq - from before the first Gulf War until today. There are absolutely legitimate questions to ask about whether an invasion was the appropriate response to the risk of WMD. But those aren't the questions we're asking. And before we do let's step further into the reality of the pre-invasion world and move away from an Anthony Dwain Lee innocently holding a prop standing at a party and to Alan Newsome: Alan Newsome never thought his BB gun would kill anyone. When he brandished it in the hallway of his Harlem apartment building it was just something to help scare some cash out of a burger joint deliveryman. But the deliveryman turned out to be a cop and when Newsome pulled the fake gun the cop's partner shot the 17-year-old three times in the chest killing him. The threat posed by Newsome - brandishing a realistic looking pellet gun - was one that any reasonable person would have responded to with deadly force. Saddam may have thought he had WMD because his staff lied to him. He may have thought he could use the empty threat to bluff. But the fact of his behavior moves him from the Lee category to that of Newsome. The risk one takes when you walk down the street brandishing a fake gun is that a very real policeman will come by and decide it's real - and you'll get shot. Now it's critical that we understand the regional context of what actors in the Middle East are doing; and I'll suggest that we continue to do a crappy job of that. But it's something where the moral weight isn't all on one side. This is something that progressives - because they tend to see the world through the prism of American power and imperium - tend to do; they tend to place all the moral weight on our side of the equation. This isn't some neocon fantasy - Danny Postel talks about it in ' '. Sorry but that doesn't hold water. The leaders in the Middle East - Saddam Ahmadinejad and others - may have as their prime focus regional dominance (actually their prime focus is staying in power in their own fiefdoms) and I genuinely believe that the root of their anti-American babble is posturing to their local audience - but the problem they have is the same one - having whipped their armies into a rage - the institutional inertia becomes difficult to control. And therein lies the rub. Because even if we accept the most benign interpretation - that the 'death to America' chants are bravado posturing designed to keep a political leadership's grasp on power the problem is that the movements they launch incite and support may not be any easier to control than the alliances and armies in Central Europe were in 1914. So yes institutional inertia on the part of American armies was a large part of why we went to war in 2003. But it wasn't the only part. I've suggested that there were legitimate reasons to depose Saddam - both as a way of trying to change the behavior of the more intractable states and as a way of liberating his own people. Yes sanctions were working - and ironically I'll bet a lot that many of the people who wag fingers and tell us that sanctions were doing just fine are the same people who in 2001 accused sanctions of killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children and argued for lifting them (a fun research project if anyone's got the time). And without question we can say that sanctions were collapsing. Jeff Weintraub back in 2002: Thanks for sending me yet another petition opposing war in Iraq. As my last message should have made clear I can't sign it in good conscience ... though I do agree very much with SOME of the points in the statement (and I disagree with others). Some key points in the statement happen to be mutually contradictory. For example one reason offered against war is that the sanctions imposed on Iraq are killing Iraqi children and constitute a major human-rights violation. On the other hand another point suggests that military action is unnecessary because "the policy of containment [is] working well." One characteristic passage reads: "In briefings calculated to query the administration's persistent sabre rattling towards Iraq unnamed officers told the Washington Post that the policy of containment was working well and that the alternative a military assault was too riddled with risk to be worth pursuing." Perhaps but this contradicts the previous point. Sanctions against Iraq are a crucial part of the "policy of containment." If the sanctions are criminal then how can the policy be "working well"? And if the sanctions are removed the "policy of containment" will collapse. You can't have it both ways. No you can't.

Now this is definitely one cell phone that all customization lovers would love to grab a hold of. The Hitachi W61H clamshell handset that will be made available this spring from KDDI features a black and white 2.7" e-ink display known as "Silhouette screen" on the front featuring 95 pre-installed graphic patterns where the user will be able to select to make it look as though you have a different color at all times. Those who are far-sighted ought to look into a viable business that offers pattern and picture downloading for such phones in the future. I'm just waiting for a colored display version to appear once they have sorted the battery issues out - black and white is a start but color makes a whole world of difference. | | |

Filed under: Although I am and always will be a devoted user of Apple products the Macintosh and OSX occasionally I find the need to do something that only the vagaries of Windows can accomplish. In the past this required me to have a separate computer (a PC) with an install of Windows. Fortunately with Apple's switch to all Intel all the time I no longer need that other Windows PC and instead can use a "virtual" Windows PC running on my Mac with the help of a software product provided by or . In the past I was a big fan of Parallels and used it exclusively. More recently though I have switched to VMware Fusion for my Windows virtualization needs. Nothing against Parallels its still a great product but I just find VMware a bit more "Mac-like" and easier to setup and use. If you agree and use VMware Fusion as well head on over to their website because there's an update to the software waiting there just for you. This update is according to the VMware site: "a maintenance release that contains fixes for a variety of issues." What might these issues be you may wonder? Well if you really want to know feel free to read the . Or if you decide to just "go for it" and not read the fine print go and download away. | | |

Filed under: ZDNet's George Ou doesn't exactly have a when it comes to Apple related analysis but even the stopped clock is right twice a day and he's got an up about the forthcoming HD movies that Apple is planning to offer with . His central point is this: high definition video is about more than resolution (whether 720p or 1080i/p); it also matters significantly how much the video is compressed. So his complaint is that the HD download services (both Xbox Live and the forthcoming Apple TV) offer video compressed so highly that even if it has the requisite number of pixels it "is simply not HD by any respectable definition." He's got another post the point. Having become a bit of a HD video buff myself I think his central claim is true. The highly-compressed video from the download services does not hold a candle to Blu-ray or HD DVD on a large 1080p display. If you think about the files' relative sizes how could it possibly? By the same token however it's not entirely clear that this is what matters most to consumers. The obvious comparison is to audio; 128kb AAC files sound significantly worse than CDs with complex music and yet Apple has sold literally billions of them. So it may turn out that the convenience of the HD downloads ends up trumping video quality except for the videophiles. However if that's so it's nonetheless true that average consumers make up the fat part of the curve where the real money is to be made. So even if Ou is right about the technical issues it's not entirely clear that it'll matter in the long run. What do you think? [via ] | | |

Filed under: If you're an iWork 08 user then you may want to run a software update as Apple has just pushed out updates for all three applications. As ever there's hugely informative release notes: for 3.0.2 and 1.0.2 "[t]his update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X" while the 4.0.2 update "primarily addresses performance issues while playing or exporting presentations." On the TUAW Intel testbed here in the UK the updates weigh in at 32.4MB 29.3MB and 27.4MB for Keynote Pages and Numbers respectively. Thanks to all those who sent this in! | | |

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