Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Stability In Iraq

I find it interesting that those who once criticized Bush are now saying that the effort which he has made is actually working. I would say that in any way this shows how it is worth while to see the final or at least close to final effect before criticizing the plan behind that effect. Does this mean that time is a measure of success? I would say not, but I would say that success should not be judged by those who are not in any way in the right position to be judging the actions of the President.

I would not go as far as saying that the opinions of the country should be silenced, but I do say lets at least let what supposable was "An non-effective Strategy" finish so we can say it is bad rather than having to second guess ourselves later after we have changed strategies to the supposable "better strategy", and are now looking back wondering if we the original "bad strategy" might have worked. As seen in this situation, things do seem to have worked out after all. As for the country it would have been a possible regret had we changed our minds halfway through. Let’s fall strong, rather than second guessing ourselves and falling without any idea as to what exactly went wrong.

Another concern which by the looks of this article seem to have been address is the problem of us trying to see where everybody else on the battlefield is when we to are infantryman, and not able to get an aerial view of the battle plan. It is impossible to see the complete idea of the event when we are in the middle of it.

To the credibility of the President, I would say that indeed he is trustworthy and has the best view of what is happening over any of us. It is interesting how to think what we as individuals might actually do if we were in his position. Sure we say that we would make way better choices, but I give the President credibility as he too is part of the show and may or may not know exactly what is coming but is going to the best of his extent figure out what the rest of the script is before the play ends. As seen from the article, he has guessed right, and gained the trust of his nation, or at least from what it looks like...

Stability in Iraq: A War We Just Might Win

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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Getty Villa Opened

Yesterday on Saturday January 28, 2006, the Getty Museum opened the new Getty Villa. It has been eight years since the renovation started. But yesterday the public was able to return to it; the admission is free, but the wait time for tickets is about two months. The 275 million dollars that went to this renovation brought a new face lift to allow many of the Greek and Roman's framed collections to call the Getty home. The Getty Villa has 64 acres that are dedicated to the study of Ancient Rome, Etruria, and Ancient Greece. The J. Paul Getty Museum was originally opened in 1997 with a 110 acre campus. During the first six months it attracted one million visitors.

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Sunday, January 22, 2006

Michael Shiavo Remarries

Michael Schiavo, past husband of Terri Schiavo just got married to Jodi Centonze. The family of Terri was probably a bit upset about him getting married because he fought against the family for years to pull the plug on Terri. Terri went into this persistent vegetative state at the young age of 26, after she collapsed from hypoxic encephalopathy in 1990. She remained in that state until March 31, 2005 when she died after 13 days of no food or water. Michael Schiavo says, "Except for the fact that the world knows their name, it was like any wedding you've ever been to". Terri Schiavo was married to Michael for about 11 years. Michael's wedding was a private wedding with about 80 people there. Jodi Centonze was already somewhat dating Michael while Terri was in a nursing home. The couple already had two kids.

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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Sago Mine Incident

Many people including reporters waited for hours to find out exactly what had happened down in the mine after the explosion.The familys of the mine incident were excited when they found out that only 1 person had died, but they were all later dissapointed to find out that that was a communication mistake. The mistake was made when someone on a cell phone heard that all twelve miners were found, and thought that it meant that they were all alive. Today familys came together to celebrate over the bravery and courage of the miners that were killed 13 days ago.

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