Prospects for Friday, 14 December
- 14 Dec 07, 10:49 AM
Today’s output editor is Dan Kelly – here’s his morning e-mail to the production team:
Road to Nowhere?
The Bali conference was supposed to produce a "Road Map" towards a global deal to cut greenhouse gases. A document is expected to be produced by tonight, but how effective will it be, and why is the American delegation so determined not to sign up to binding targets on cutting emissions for developed countries? Susan Watts and Roger Harrabin are on the case, and we have an interview planned with the State Department.
Basra
The handover of Basra province is due any day soon, and certainly before Christmas. Newsnight has an exclusive poll of the people of Basra - what do they think the British have achieved there, and what do they think the future holds? We need a strong interview/discussion off the back of this.
Other stories to look at include the report, and the latest on Northern Rock.
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MEDDLING WITH WAR
Training volunteers to kill and maim (others) and destroy indiscriminately, yet discharging them (dishonourably?) for taking drugs, has a poignancy I can’t quite put my finger on. Could it be that we never really focus on, and come to terms with, what armed warfare really encompasses?
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Barrie (1),
"Could it be that we never really focus on, and come to terms with, what armed warfare really encompasses?"
Aye, Money.
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
-- President (General) Dwight David Eisenhower,
January 1961
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi
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