Using the Bushman's illogical logic (that's a Rumsfeld - remember the unknown knowns?!), the ANC should never have talked the National Party which would probably mean that South Africa would still be an international pariah and Nelson Mandela would be celebrating his 90th birthday in jail. Talks between the ANC and the National Party paved the way for a relatively smooth transition of the power to the black majority. Likewise, the ceasefire between the IRA and the British government would never of happened without a lot of jaw jaw.
But no, the insatiable warmonger that is Bush says that talking with Mr. Ahmadinejad is on par with Neville Chamberlain's pathetic attempts to persuade Hitler not to invade Poland back in 1939. Like I said here, Mr. Ahmadinejad is a man of bombast, he likes to shoot his mouth off, but considering the fact that Iran has a sizeable population of Jews who are represented in the Iranian parliament, I would posit that Mr. Ahmadinejad is all mouth no action unlike you know who.
War!! What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing (unless you are Haliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root and can engage in profiteering at the expense of the American taxpayer because Dick Cheney has got your back)
Showing posts with label Cabinet War Rooms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cabinet War Rooms. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Mum's the word
Q How do you get 500 people to keep a secret?
A By using onion layering
Onion layering is one of the most effective methods of implementing security because even if you get through one layer, there's another layer underneath, and another one and another one etc until you eventually reach the inner sanctum. However that takes a lot of time and only the really determined would put in the requisite effort.
By the end of the Second World War about 500 people worked in the Cabinet War Rooms, but by using another security principle called need to know the actual number of people who really knew what was going on was limited to a handful.
The original axis of evil, Germany, Japan and Italy did not have a flippin' clue about this room from where Britain plotted the demise of the Third Reich. Don't the British know how to keep schtum?!
The Cabinet War Rooms and the Churchill Museum are well worth a visit and you can see the ingenuity of the Royal Engineers on display.
Churchill was an admirer of the Desert Fox aka Erwin Rommel - he admired his professionalism as a soldier. FDR was the glue that held Stalin and Churchill together so when he died on 12 April 1945, the fractious relationship between Stalin and Churchill re-emerged. Churchill did not have as close a relationship with FDR's successor, Harold S Truman.
Oh, why was I there? To attend an information security seminar - what a way to combine business and pleasure?! I'm a history buff so the tour after the seminar was the proverbial icing on the cake.
PS: Stalin killed a lot more people than Hitler, 20 million to 6 million, so why is Hitler the more vilified? Is Hitler's continued condemnation based on how society values human lives? We all know an African life isn't worth very much. Or could it simply be that as Stalin was on the victorious side, he was entitled to his spoils of war?!
A By using onion layering
Onion layering is one of the most effective methods of implementing security because even if you get through one layer, there's another layer underneath, and another one and another one etc until you eventually reach the inner sanctum. However that takes a lot of time and only the really determined would put in the requisite effort.
By the end of the Second World War about 500 people worked in the Cabinet War Rooms, but by using another security principle called need to know the actual number of people who really knew what was going on was limited to a handful.
The original axis of evil, Germany, Japan and Italy did not have a flippin' clue about this room from where Britain plotted the demise of the Third Reich. Don't the British know how to keep schtum?!
The Cabinet War Rooms and the Churchill Museum are well worth a visit and you can see the ingenuity of the Royal Engineers on display.
Churchill was an admirer of the Desert Fox aka Erwin Rommel - he admired his professionalism as a soldier. FDR was the glue that held Stalin and Churchill together so when he died on 12 April 1945, the fractious relationship between Stalin and Churchill re-emerged. Churchill did not have as close a relationship with FDR's successor, Harold S Truman.
Oh, why was I there? To attend an information security seminar - what a way to combine business and pleasure?! I'm a history buff so the tour after the seminar was the proverbial icing on the cake.
PS: Stalin killed a lot more people than Hitler, 20 million to 6 million, so why is Hitler the more vilified? Is Hitler's continued condemnation based on how society values human lives? We all know an African life isn't worth very much. Or could it simply be that as Stalin was on the victorious side, he was entitled to his spoils of war?!
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