The Obama Administration is thinking about adding a network of bases for additional US soldiers operating in Iraq. There are at least 3500 US soldiers there already. They are supposed to be there only to train and to give advice, but there is a fine line between such activities and combat. It is difficult for me to see the long-term objective of such incremental moves. The strategy is opaque and I suspect that not even Obama’s advisers can define an end game with any great precision ore clarity.
One of the uncertainties about global warming has to do with the effects of warmer temperatures on agriculture. Some have argued that plants will thrive with higher temperatures and more carbon dioxide. A new study, however, suggests that, while some areas might benefit such as Russia and Canada, the net effect will be negative. In fact the new study concludes that:
“In fact, on a global scale, the authors predict that the Earth will lose a whopping 11 percent of its annual suitable growing days by the year 2100 under a business-as-usual scenario.”
Apparently, there are no silver linings at all to global warming.
In 1492 Jews in Spain were given a choice: convert to Catholicism or be burned at the stake. Today Spain is considering a law to give the descendants of those who fled Spain a chance to gain Spanish citizenship (about 90,000 such people) in a measure of atonement for the historical crime.
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