Monday, January 15, 2007

FCNL - period ended 6.1.2006

FCNL/War/Nuclear Non-proliferation/Focused Lethality Munition/The mother of all US bombs/Asia Times Online/Hong Kong/China/Asia/18-May-06/... affairs analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus, a retired US Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation ...

FCNL/War/Iraq/Smith, Col. Daniel/War atrocities: awareness grows, tolerance drops/Christian Science Monitor/Boston/MA/USA/1-Jun-06/... "All these things seem to me to point to a failure of humanness - by which I mean the inability to transfer from coping in a daily routine with familiar stresses to a fundamentally unfamiliar environment with different, unfamiliar stresses and remain on an acceptably even keel," says retired Army Col. Dan Smith, a military analyst with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Quaker lobby in Washington.

"One tends to revert to the level of society in which safety can be found - Iraqis to the tribe or the mosque, soldiers to the squad or platoon," says Col. Smith. "When one of 'ours' is killed by one of 'theirs,' the death is translated into a personal attack, which in its own way reinforces the natural fear instinct - fight or flight." ...


FCNL/War/Civil Rights//National Call-in to Congress on NSA Warrantless Surveillance/Kansas City infoZine/Kansas City/MO/USA/16-May-06/... Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, First Amendment Foundation, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Liberty Coalition ...


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