Brian, I particularly liked your last sentence.
As the police well know circumstantial evidence is better then witnessed evidence. Each witness is likely to come up with a different view (a different particle). So should we meld? Certainly the police can't. With regard to Iraq, I still think the troops around Saudi Arabia are primed to get in quick in the event of a breakdown in SA caused by the old King's death, perhaps. Their job will be to grab the oil-fields and defend them. If more troops begin pouring into existing SA American installations, then we must be ready for action - but not necessarily, if the object of the warlike posture is to force Saddam to accept full inspection by the UN. We are likely to have trouble with theTurks. They may let us invade from there into friendly Kurdish territory. However, the price exacted by the Kurds is likely to be a Kurdish homeland, something the Turks don't want. They have a lot of Kurds on their border. They aren't keen on having a Kurdish homeland just across the line. And the history of enforced homelands and partitioning countries is full of success, isn't it? Harry --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian wrote: >Thanks for your response Harry. I like to play with the concept of >'particles of truth' with my students. I got the idea from Heinrich Boll, >a German novelist who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1972. He said >that if we wanted to determine the truth of a situation we would have to >ask each person involved in the situation for their version of the truth. >Each of these versions could be considered 'particles of truth'. >So Harry what is your version of the truth of Iraq? Rather than the >debunking of 'both ways' why not gather as many particles of truth from as >many people as possible and see what these multiplicity of perspectives >might suggest? > >My students say that this makes 'right answers' much more complex than >they ever imagined. > >take care, >Brian > > >>Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2C04290E; >>charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >> >>Brian, >> >>Some very dubious conjectures in the debunking, which makes it useful for >>students, so long as the debunking goes both ways. >> >>Harry ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
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