Links 20 MAR 2009

News Flash! Fear of losing your job sucks:

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/03/18/Study_Financial_security_key_to_happiness/UPI-56931237420068/

There is no depression.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29791834/

The Six Wars Of Iraq:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29798556/

"So what did the U.S. accomplish?

It took six years and a trillion dollars to replace Saddam’s dictatorship with a somewhat stable government.

Iraq was a dictatorship. Now Iraq has a “kleptocracy,” a government that exists to steal.

Larry Kaplow, an old friend from Newsweek who’d been doing excellent reporting in Iraq for years, recently told me there’s a new expression to describe what Baghdad had become: “Iraqi good enough.” Mediocrity, he said, is the accepted norm. His analysis seems about right to me.

It’s become acceptable, both to American officials in Baghdad and many Iraqis themselves, that Iraqi security forces beat detainees and politicians steal from government coffers; it’s “Iraqi good enough.”

Iraq isn’t stable, but it’s not in a civil war anymore; it’s “Iraqi good enough.”

Doctors and intellectuals, who fled the civil war, are no longer leaving the country, but aren’t coming back either; it’s “Iraqi good enough.”

Is “Iraqi good enough,” good enough?

Time will tell, or maybe it won’t.
© 2009 msnbc.com "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29790709/

and

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-03-20-hormuz-collision_N.htm

The Straits Of Hormuz are not a good place for blue-water SSN's.

Izzies behaving badly:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-20-israel-war_N.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/opinion/20brooks.html?em

Generational warfare at the getting work level:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/business/21age.html?_r=1&hp

Bevo Mill Stiffs Everybody:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9E8044D15F2957C38625757F00028FAD?OpenDocument

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/20/2049228

Gotta love that happy Greenberg:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29792312/