Total Eclipse

Regarding the costs of war, just to put things in perspective [translated from a piece by Brigadier General (res.) Shuki Shichrur, a former chief of staff of the Israeli Northern Command]:
Fallujah lies 70km west-north-west to Baghdad. In 2004, it had between 200 and 300 thousand residents. From early 2004, it was under control of Jihadist [...]

The Diameter of the Bomb
by Yehuda Amichai. trans. Chana Bloch & Stephen Mitchell
The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a larger circle
of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered
and one graveyard. But the young woman
who was buried [...]

S: “Violence is justified in the service of mankind.”
B: “Who said that?”
S: “Attila the hun.”
B: “You’re quoting a hun to me??”
(Woody Allen, Love & Death, 1975)
Came back from watching journalist and geekc0re pre-premiere viewing of V for Vendetta, The Watchowski (The Matrix) bros. adaptation to film of one of my all-time favourite graphic novels, V [...]

Tags: pax-americana, terrorism, the-long-war, 1984, war-on-terror
The Pentagon has revealed plans for a complete overhaul of US military and strategic thinking from the accute and ineffective War on Terror to a more chronic approach eerily titled The Long War.
The report identifies four priority areas
· Defeating terrorist networks
· Defending the homeland in depth
· Shaping the choices of [...]