tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post1590809155458673254..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: The psychology of the USS Vincennes incidentRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-58216568005587008412014-10-03T17:01:43.295+01:002014-10-03T17:01:43.295+01:00I think this an excellent presentation and highly ...I think this an excellent presentation and highly commend it for its erudition, logic and accessibility. I wonder if Viki McCabe has considered similar in regard to aspects of the Lockerbie/Zeist investigation.<br /><br />Robert.Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-39421158257875669742014-10-01T09:33:59.879+01:002014-10-01T09:33:59.879+01:00As ever, a powerful nation learns long after the e...As ever, a powerful nation learns long after the event only when it is politically safe to do so.<br /><br />what we do not see amid this theorising and intellectual analysis are the bodies of men women and children floating in the blue waters of a calm sea.<br /><br />And so it goes on. As I write, US drones and planes are blowing up grain silos and farmers, and whole streets in Iraqi villages. Civilians are uncounted, the dismembered bodies un-reported and unseen.<br /><br />In years to come similar intellectual articles will be written explaining the psychology of America's current military mistakes in Iraq.<br /><br />I remember at a Haye Literary festival some years ago the former US Secretary of State for Defence, Charles McNamara admitted to a packed hall that in the massive bombing campaign of North and then parts of South Vietnam "I was wrong, we were wrong." <br /><br />McNamara's admission occurred more than twenty years after the event. And by then it was safe to say it.<br /><br />His comment went unreported in the US media.About us ...https://www.blogger.com/profile/10861835905210461367noreply@blogger.com