The Mideast and common sense

World Tribune.com
"Imitating American academics often practicing what one writer called social science as voodoo, the Soviets misappropriated from physics the phrase “correlation of forces” to describe the general world scene at a given moment. Others have called it the bandwagon effects, the tendency of people to join a winning side were it not their first choice. Modifying, slightly, Vince Lombardi’s famous sports quip: “winning isn’t everything, it is the only thing [in the short term].”"

Looking around the world, the combination of the Americans’ failure to achieve a quick victory in Iraq has emboldened democracy’s enemies. Added now is the result of an Israeli strategic mistake for not immediately using maximum force and its hell-for-leather effort to recoup before the world imposes a truce. Read more....