tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post2785850524193296743..comments2023-10-05T08:44:09.303-07:00Comments on JG, Caesarea: Thomas Friedman, "Foreign Policy by Whisper and Nudge": Or More Accurately Stated, Whimper and FudgeJeffrey Grossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847518948270295312noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-30748325132562546632013-08-25T15:14:04.513-07:002013-08-25T15:14:04.513-07:00and, somehow, no one in America has noticed this o...and, somehow, no one in America has noticed this outcome of R2P in Libya (linked from a more general article on the failure of the Arab Spring at the Daily Telegraph, UK from a report published in Algeria)<br /><br />"Libya’s Government Losing Control of Oil Fields to Jihadist Groups"<br />First Published: August 20, 2013<br />Posted on: August 21 2013<br />Translated by: Rani Geha<br /><br />http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2013/08/libya-loses-control-oil-fields-east-emirate.html<br /><br /><br />Yes, really, let us have 'foreign policy by poll data'<br /><br />K2KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067977173951690762.post-38328675503588424402013-08-24T22:49:20.696-07:002013-08-24T22:49:20.696-07:00Foreign policy experts and the Think Tanks they wo...Foreign policy experts and the Think Tanks they work with really ought to take a look at some of the research developed at the Technion that can predict future events based on mining of Web data.<br /><br />http://www.psfk.com/2013/02/newspapers-epidemic-prediction-database.html<br /><br />Perhaps they're already using these algorithms but erroneously inputted 20 years of Friedman's op-eds into the program. Or, as taught in every Computer Science 101 course: Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com