Recent content by Brad Sallows

Right now there are probably about 400,000 people turning 18 each year. I doubt enough positions can be found for all of them, and some would be "excused duty" for reasons not necessarily related to severe disability. So some people would get a pass, and some would be f*cked. It wouldn't...

Which has nothing to do with my point, which is that it can all be avoided by not mixing unprotected and protected things. And that can only be done by whoever controls the assets. "Collateral damage and casualties resulting from the siting of legitimate military targets is the fault of the...

No LPC ownership nexus, I suppose.

Can't seem to find any news at all about how the ICC prosecution against Putin is going.

Other countries are misguided. For those that believe in the abstract of the "IRBO", Hamas cannot be allowed to succeed. The short lesson drawn by observers will be "Well, it worked." Political support for Hamas or against Israel will tend to buttress Hamas's will to continue the fight rather...

Without qualification and in absolute terms, then, "Collateral damage and casualties resulting from the siting of legitimate military targets is the fault of the people siting legitimate military targets there." stands, because without the legitimate military target there would be no attack and...

SYEP must still have been running in 1987, because a make-employment "course" called "SYEP Challenge" was run in Vernon.

Nothing wrong with my logic. I didn't make any claims about the military advantage of a target; I didn't claim that any target may be attacked any time irrespective of collateral damage and casualties. The point is that siting military targets near protected people and infrastructure invites...

"Netanyahu says the air strike in Rafah on Sunday was "a tragic mistake" and adds that it will be investigated" Huh. Would be a pretty neat trick to know the outcome ("tragic mistake") before the investigation is started.

Marooning people in a brief compulsory military service or community service would be a grave economic strategic error for a country reportedly suffering declining productivity and shortages of employees in all sorts of occupations. It's pretty much guaranteed to move a huge slice of people's...

Sure, but start with the oldest people - say, 75 - and work down through the cohorts (community service; military service would be too difficult for many).

Depends on how old you are, since borrowing to spend is consumption of future revenues in the present.

Collateral damage and casualties resulting from the siting of legitimate military targets is the fault of the people siting legitimate military targets there. If it's common knowledge that a war aim is approximately the extinction of the political and military leadership of Hamas, for f*ck's...

The part of Burnaby Henning Dr runs through has been an informal "tech park" for decades. Nothing unusual about that part.

Countries aren't supposed to gain territory by war, even by taking it away from an attacker. That's the well-intentioned ideal, anyways. Perceived exigencies of survival will always override ideals. Those who wish to pound the drums about occupation and colonization may continue doing so. Of...