Protection

“The rain forests certainly deserve our protection, but man as creature indeed deserves no less.”

--Pope Benedict XVI

But now I get it!

"We're all wearing the blue dress now."

--Plaztiq

Me either...

"I think BK is the only viable solution to any of these zombie companies. However, what I find ironic and highly problematic, is that a company like GM, which actually MANUFACTURES something, is left to go the BK route, while all the zombie banks, which just push around paper and don't actually produce anything except shit sandwiches and profits for their executives, are kept alive at any cost. I just don't get it."

--"Mondocondo"

Well, that's a pleasant thought

"Economic volatility, plus ethnic disintegration, plus an empire in decline: That combination is about the most lethal in geopolitics. We now have all three. The age of upheaval starts now."

--Niall Ferguson

Analysts

"...they can tell the Reuters poll of ten analysts to pack sand in their left ear and walk lopsided..."

- Doug Smith

Let's cut to the chase

"I'm taking this class where they're trying to help us figure out how to determine what's right from wrong. But the kids at my school all know right from wrong. That's not the problem. The problem is that some kids just don't give a shit."

--Annonymous, 16 years old

Curiousity and the sense of a fuller truth.

"Religion partakes of elements of both art and science. It could not have begun without our uniquely human understanding of false belief, which develops in individuals during their fourth year—our awareness that another person can have a different understanding of a situation from what we know to be the case, and our concomitant awareness that in other circumstances we may not have all we need to understand this or that situation. Our capacity to understand false belief has amplified our curiosity and spurred us to the quest for the deeper knowledge that has led to both religion and science."

--Brian Boyd

Do we REALLY need to study this so closely?

Simply analyzing the tactical engagements that occurred over the 34 days of direct contact between Israel and Hezbollah doesn't serve either side of the COIN/Conventional debate well. Israel's long term policies and actions built Hezbollah. The particular situation within Lebanon created the conditions under which an organization like Hezbollah could grow and thrive. If the U.S. thinks it makes sense to invade another country without our own security being gravely at risk, then we haven't learned our own set of lessons from Iraq. 

Let's figure that one out before we spend too much time picking apart 34 days of fighting between two entities that have been battling each other for years.