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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 28-Nov-2013
28-Nov-13 World View -- Nationalistic bloggers ridicule China over America's B-52s

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28-Nov-13 World View -- Nationalistic bloggers ridicule China over America's B-52s

Iran rejects White House summary of nuclear agreement

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CENTCOM delivers Thanksgiving dinners to soldiers in Afghanistan
Nationalistic bloggers ridicule China over America's B-52s
Iran rejects White House summary of nuclear agreement

CENTCOM delivers Thanksgiving dinners to soldiers in Afghanistan

Marines at Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Afghanistan, Nov 22, 2012, eat turkey dinner

Marines at Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Afghanistan, Nov 22, 2012, eat turkey dinner

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), based at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, is making sure that tens of thousands of American soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan can enjoy a Thanksgiving Day meal featuring turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing and pumpkin pie. According to Scott Anderson:

"The last I saw, we were nearing 100 percent ready for Thanksgiving. That means all the turkeys are there for our troops so they're ready to have a Thanksgiving meal on Thanksgiving. And we'll turn to and get ready for Christmas. There are some special meals that we make sure our troops are taken care of."

Never let it be said that I can't post a happy good news story. WUSF (Florida)

Nationalistic bloggers ridicule China over America's B-52s

There was a flood of support by Chinese bloggers when China announced on Saturday that it was establishing an "Air Defense Identification Zone" (ADIZ) encompassing the East China Sea, including Japan's Senkaku Islands, and demanded that any aircraft flying through the ADIZ must report to China's military, or face military "defensive" measures. Bloggers wrote,

"Claiming what is ours and now defending what is ours. This is something that is worth fighting for."

But then on Tuesday, when U.S. B-52s flew into the ADIZ and were unchallenged by China's military, the support turned to ridicule. "That's it?" asked several bloggers. Others said the government would be an international "laughing stock" and "will face international ridicule." Others called the ADIZ a farce.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, this is an extremely dangerous situation. Those who refer to some statement or other by president Xi Jinping as proof that China has no intention to start a war don't understand what's going on. It's not the octogenarians in Central Committee who are going to drive China to launch a war. It's the highly nationalistic younger generations, the soldiers, the middle managers, the girls who send their heroes out to fight, who make the day to day decisions that create situations that lead to war. Chances are that this decision to set up the ADIZ was made, or at least heavily promoted and supported, by highly nationalistic 30-50 year olds in the government and military bureaucracies, and this is exactly the kind of thing that can lead to a confrontation that can spiral into full scale war. International Business Times (Australia) and VOA

Iran rejects White House summary of nuclear agreement

As I've mentioned a couple of times, in the news conferences that followed last weekend's nuclear agreement with Iran, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Iran had no right to enrich uranium, while Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gloated that Iran had preserved its right to enrich uranium. The contrast between these two statements was so dramatic that I've been wondering whether anyone would even point it out, or whether it would just be swept under the rug like most things these days.

Iran has now rejected the summary of the nuclear agreement that was posted on the White House web site. According to the foreign ministry:

"What has been released by the website of the White House as a fact sheet is a one-sided interpretation of the agreed text in Geneva and some of the explanations and words in the sheet contradict the text of the Joint Plan of Action (the title of the Iran-powers deal), and this fact sheet has unfortunately been translated and released in the name of the Geneva agreement by certain media, which is not true."

Iran doesn't state what the specific contradictions are, but they almost certainly have to do with enrichment. Free Beacon (Washington) and Fars (Tehran) and White House

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