My original reaction to 'cheaper, faster, better' is that two out of three ain't bad. Pick the two of those three that you want, because you can't have all three. |
nothing new. |
Part of winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people is some tangible improvement in their quality of life. An essential way of doing that is increasing petroleum production and using some of that money to get the electricity on. In both cases, they seem to be doing just enough to keep things from getting worse. They do not seem to have a plan for victory on this front. They seem to have a plan for stalemate. |
Possibly, in a post-Sept. 11 environment, we do need to think about restricting the availability of information that would be useful to terrorists. But if we're going to do it for online satellite imagery, there are a lot of other sources of similar information that we're going to have to try to restrict as well. |
Private companies are in business to make money, |
Risk-averse American decision-makers would have to be focused on the possibility that the Chinese will beat us back to the moon. It would be a reasonable worry from the political perspective, |
Some would say it's time to recognize that the world has changed - that the number of intelligence questions that can be answered with images from space is very limited. |
The bottom line is that the U.S. government looked at this imagery and decided that it was OK for it to be publicly released, |
The fact that the government authorized the release of this imagery I think indicates that the Defense Department decided that the release of this imagery was not going to jeopardize the troops. |
The Iraqi security forces have disintegrated on two previous occasions, in early 2004 and late 2004. They will probably be a work in progress for some time to come. |
The paradox of war is that it has always been both glorious and terrible. What we had with air power in the first Gulf War and in Kosovo was the glory without seeing the horror. What we have now with the insurgency is the horror without the glory. |
The plan all along was to burn through the Guard and Reserve as a stopgap measure, [since] the fall of 2003, when it finally started to sink in that [Army leaders] had a long war on their hands. |
The problem for the enemy is that computer security vulnerabilities will almost certainly prove fleeting and unpredictable, |
The problem with the current conflict is that when our people get captured, they get their heads chopped off. |
The single, self-forging fragment hits the target at a high velocity, |