Searching the 2010 National Security Strategy

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 5:39 PM Share

I'll have a longer reaction to the 2010 National Security Strategy once I've, you know, actually read it. Of course, me needing to read it will not stop commenters from commenting. So fire away.

Through the magic of the search function, here's a short list of what's hot and what's not in the NSS: Here are the number of mentions for the following words:

Russia: 12

China: 9

Europe: 7

Japan: 2

Brazil: 3

India: 7

Africa: 12

Israel: 9

Palestine: 1

Al Qa'ida: 21

North Korea: 3

Iran: 9

Iraq: 19

Afghanistan: 16

Pakistan: 11

nonproliferation: 13

terrorism: 14

pandemic: 7

volcano: 0

cyber: 11

Doha round: 1

zombies: 0

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ZATHRAS

7:40 PM ET

May 27, 2010

NSS Query

Does anyone at all still laugh at the zombie references?

I still remember when I gave up knock-knock jokes. It was a tough decision, one that took iron resolve and self-discipline to maintain because here and there I could still find people who laughed at them. Mostly younger people -- I was about 10 at the time -- so I may not have been giving up quite as much as I then thought. Anyway, I had the idea then that attempts at humor that produced rolling of the eyes was a bad thing. The stand-up comics' phrase for it is "dying on stage," which was dramatic enough to impress on me that it was something I did not want to do. I couldn't get out of my mind the image of an audience groaning, booing, throwing fruit and shouting "boring!" "you suck!" "refund!" and "tenure!" Not sure why that last one made such an impression, but there you are.

I guess the whole situation was one of those interesting "psychic income/psychic cost" problems. It might have been more difficult if I'd ever thought knock-knock jokes were funny myself. Then as now I was very fashion-conscious, and aware that they were several years out of style, so that may have factored into my thinking. Anyway, I throw out this personal anecdote as an aside to a question asked in good faith, and not intended to appear judgmental of anything, no matter how tiresome it might be.

Also, I noticed that the word "Israel" appears in Dan's post here. As FP's blogs have evolved, that fact practically guarantees an onslaught by one or more commenters preoccupied with Jews (sorry, with Zionism.....oh, whom are we kidding? Of course it's with Jews) who've convinced themselves that making -- and repeating, many times -- analogies between Israel and the Nazis makes them the world's most clever people. I thought if I wanted to sound any other note at all, I'd better do it right away.

AUSTRALIANO

2:16 PM ET

June 7, 2010

SHUT UP With your Crapola!

How many times did Zathras talk about himself in his last post:

Zathras = 17 (including the count where he mentioned that he sucked)

You´re reading Foreing Policy, of course the blogs are going to polemic flashpoint issues about Isreal/jews/Zionists you tool. Wanna read some other right wing propaganda mag go and buy womans weekly, i hear they have a nice article about maternity dresses this week. YOu might like to check it out.

And of course you sound judgemental, you´re opening paragraph was an attack on Daniel using outdated jokes. Well maybe to your retrotarded brain, but not to ours. We find his posts interesting and informing. Just wish others had the time to make their blogs more interesting to read.

You´ve obviously got a jew complex and you sound like you wanted to be like Daniel but failed in life, so now you attack his posts as retribution. Don´t be so sour. :)

DUDESKI ROBINSON

8:32 PM ET

May 27, 2010

This post needs a Wordle!

It's pretty clear to me that this post needs a Wordle!

(Are we all tired of seeing them? Yes. Can we learn anything from them? Probably not. Will that prevent me from posting one? No!)

Here it is: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40028/wordle.pdf

BRETT

10:18 PM ET

May 27, 2010

The National Security Strategy? Let's see.

I read the whole thing this morning, and I'm not particularly impressed.

It's mostly just a waste of time. While there are some security goals outlaid, most of it reads like a laundry list of Obama projects (both domestic and foreign), with a metric ton of fluff mixed in. Heck, it takes them more than 10 pages (not including Obama's introduction) just to start talking specifics on national security!

The document completely waters down the "National Security" concept, to include essentially everything from domestic economy initiatives (I'm not joking about that), to education, and so forth. It's a joke, and a waste of time that could have been written in 5 pages with much more clarity.

LAL QILA

6:47 PM ET

May 28, 2010

You also forgot a few other choice words and phrases

Radical Judaism
Zionists
Christian Zionists
Hindoo Zionists
Neocons
Illegal Settlers
Illegal House Demolitions
State Sponsored Assassinations
State Sponsored Terrorism
Abuse of Prisoners of War by Israel
Torture of Prisoners of War by Israel
Denying rights granted by UN to Prisoners of War by Israel
Radical Hindooism
Hindutva
Kashmir
Mass graves in Kashmir
Bosnia
Mass graves in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia of Muslims
Chechneya
War crimes in Chechneya
Radical Christianity
Illegal American Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Illegal American Invasion and Occupation of Afghanistan
Illegal American attacks in Pakistan
Abuse of Prisoners of War by America
Torture of Prisoners of War by America
Denying rights granted by UN to Prisoners of War by America
Colonialism
Neo-Colonialism

http://lalqila.wordpress.com/

LAL QILA

12:34 PM ET

May 30, 2010

Blaming the victim

is not the sign of a healty mind.

LAL QILA

6:03 PM ET

May 30, 2010

Tell your lies

Tell your lies to the Muslims burried in graveyards under the Jew Museum of Tolerance.

Tell your lies to the One Million Muslim forced out from Palestine, to make room for the Illegal Settlers of Zion, and still live in deplorable conditions in Occupied Palestine and neighbouring countries.

Tell your lies to the 20 Million Muslim Iraqis gravely harmed because of Jew Lies and consequent Illegal American Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.

Tell your lies to the 40 Million Pashtun Muslims of Afghanistan and Pakistan gravely harmed because of Hindoo Lies and consequent Illegal American Invasion and Occupation of Afghanistan.

Tell your lies to the Tens of Thousands Bosnian and Kosovo Muslims of killed in cold blood and burried in mass graves by the Christians of Serbia.

Tell your lies to the Thousands Kashmiri Kashiri Muslims of killed in cold blood and burried in mass graves by the Hindoos of India.

Tell your lies to the Tens of Thousands Chechneyan Muslims of killed in cold blood with Fuel-Air Bombs by Russian Christians.

Tell your lies and continue to repeat your lies to the whole world...

They are all listening.

http://lalqila.wordpress.com/

AUSTRALIANO

2:29 PM ET

June 7, 2010

Religion has nothing to do

Religion has nothing to do with it my brother. Don´t hate the person, hate the institution. Remove the religion away from it and you´ll see whats really going on behind it. Its a fight for resources, land, etc. Yes, neo colonialism.

NTERRADAS

1:58 AM ET

May 30, 2010

Pffffffffff...

:)) I'm still laughing at the "zombie" joke at the end...

BLUESHELL

6:29 AM ET

June 8, 2010

The strategy cites examples...

The strategy cites examples of how the U.S. aims to "promote dignity ... through development efforts." They include, the Global Health Initiative (coach outlet stores ), U.S. food security programs and leadership in humanitarian crises, such as "Haiti's devastating earthquake."