Farid’s Blog

With the rebels now in charge of most parts of Libya, it won’t take long for France to sell its Rafale fighter jets to their buddies. In fact, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the rebels’ “government” has already promised the countries that helped them to power a lion’s share of the contracts. It’s [...]

The German Parliament Committee responsible for investigating the Kunduz incident (Kunduz Untersuchungsausschuß) has completed its deliberations, and was predictably divided along party lines as to whom was responsible and whom was to blame for this disaster.

The current air campaign of France and some NATO countries against Libya’s Gaddafi could be a marketing plot for Rafale and Eurofighter jets.

Colonel Georg Klein, the commanding officer responsible for the Kunduz Air Strike will likely go unpunished, at least legally. This raises questions about the moral compass of a nation at war: doesn’t this never-ending war slowly turn us into a sociopathic “1984″-rish Orwellian society, where human decency and the respect for human lives have lost their universal meaning? Is this never-ending war slowly, but inexorably dehumanizing us as a society?

Using fake passports, a special ops hit team neutralized a Hamas operative in a Dubai hotel. What’s unethical about this was that they used the identities of unsuspecting real people, putting them in harm’s way. Responsible intelligence agencies wouldn’t have acted so amateurish, and would have used IDs of imaginary, dead, or incarcerated people.

Russia should join NATO to prevent China from co-opting the US military for its needs.