Showing posts with label Prediction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prediction. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Thomas Ricks reminds us that Bill Kristol can't meet the standards of a stopped clock

Thomas Ricks reminds us of the batting average of some of our favorite Conservative Pundits:

A nice little historical note here, revisiting a bunch of scary predictions Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol made in the year 2000:

Ten years from now, and perhaps a good deal sooner, we likely will be living a world in which Iraq, Iran, North Korea and China all possess the ability to strike the continental United States with nuclear weapons. Within the next decade we may have to decide whether to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack. We could face another attempt by a rearmed Saddam Hussein to seize Kuwait's oil fields.

Good to keep in mind the next time they shout "fire" in a crowded foreign-policy theater.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Michael Ware: Pakistan and America, and possibly the Taliban are all "positioning to begin talks to end the conflict."

The whole thing is entertaining, but at the three minute mark things get mega-interesting.


Watch it while you can. The last link was removed by YouTube.


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Part 2:

Monday, January 19, 2009

BBC: MLK...Negro President in 25 years or less...

Martin Luther King...from a BBC Interview in 1964 (embeding not available), saying that there will a Negro President in 25 years or less...

So he was a little off...