A Harvard (Boston) history professor explains (on the pages of the Telegraph) how he thinks a great war over, in and with Iran is nearly necessary but could be prevented:
The origins of the Great War of 2007 - and how it could have been prevented

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Reseach Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has got a what we used to call a homepage at niallferguson.org. Time Magazine called him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Of course his pages links to articles that say things like that. Is he right? Dead wrong.

Telegraph Group Limited (TGL) publishes telegraph.co.uk (since '94), The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Weekly Telegraph.
The Daily Telegraph was established on June 29, 1855 by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh. He controlled it only briefly before selling it to his printer, Joseph Moses Levy.
TGL is owned by the Barclay brothers.

A Hebrew University (Jerusalem) history professor explains (on the pages of Forward) what he thinks is the first knowledge necessary to prevent any such war:
Knowing Why Not To Bomb Iran Is Half the Battle

You have been able to read about this guy, named van Creveld, here. Wrote lots of books, is a member of HU's Institute of Arts and Letters, has got email but not even his own homepage. Is he right? Dead right, methinks.

It was founded in 1897 as a daily newspaper in Yiddish (Forverts) by Abraham Cahan. By the 1930s, the Forward was a leading U.S. metropolitan daily with considerable influence and a nationwide circulation of more than 275,000.
The Forward is owned by the Forward Association, a non-profit holding company.

... plink  

 

saunabiber, 25.05.2006, 10:56

http://www.wurzelwerk.at/infos/merrymeet/2006/

... plink