Stratfor

“For Mutt, or anyone else, - What's Stratfor predicting for 2007? For the middle east> Far East? Elsewhere?”

“Trouble from the east-north-east light and variable with increasing rowdiness moving in from the north with things becoming darkest when least expected.”

“my strat's for playing killer misic on.....heh heh”

“LOL@ stratdewd.

Stratfor ain't been all that accurate (LOL). Hell the only reason Norm was in Southern Command in 1991 was that they never forsaw a major war in the Desert.”

“I agree XL - (on the LOL, too) - Stratfor/Friedman have had some great hits and some great misses, but they are almost always interesting.”

“They haven't published their 2007 forecast yet. They did publish a piece affirming their 2006 assessment for Al Qaeda, though.
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“Thanks Mutt. I think their 2006 forecast came out mid-January.”

“Heard Friedman on O'Reilly's radio show today.

Interesting discussion, though O'reilly kind of tried to simplify and moralize everything Friedman said.

Most of what I heard was about Putin - and his struggle vs. US interests combined with the US struggle vs. Russian interests. Also, O'Reilly sounded ready to hold a major ticker tape parade for Petraeus. He spoke as if victory in Iraq was assured and an MSM conspiracy was hiding it from us.”

“And you expected something different while listing to O'Reilly? lol!”

“It's always fun to see what Wild Bill is selling and how. Sometimes I learn something.hing.

I'm hoping he's right about the surge continuing to play out well - so long as it doesn't lead to triumphalists wanting to setting unrealistic goals.”