Following today’s missile test, I have had conversations with people comparing the current situation with the Cuban Missile Crisis, and even stating that the US will enter Iraq-style open war with the DPRK. There are issues I have with comparing DPRK/ROK to those conflicts, as there are fundamental differences that make an both an accidental or chosen war far less likely on the Korean peninsula. So…
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I had a conversation recently with an American guy who opined that democracy was sure to succeed in the Middle East due to the universal nature and appeal of some concepts. I think that we can demand universal standards of law, but this will necessarily be by international treaty - the world does not share, and may well not choose to share identical values. Where the more simplisitc view tends to fall apart is confusing Pax Romana with a true accord, when in fact even a common cultural volcabulary is not shared in many cases. For that gentleman, and other people who doubt this:
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This is the statement given by former AT&T technician Mark Klein as the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program. Wired news has posted the PDF of this, but has messed up their links on the site, as well as being in danger of having it ordered down. For this reason, I have mirrored it here, with an HTML transcript as well as the orignal PDF. More below the fold.
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