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Wednesday, October 29th, 2003

RUMSFELD ON TERROR STRATEGY

His WaPo op-ed ( I now write like Bob Dole speaks !) piece. Rumsfeld is attempting to have the chattering classes come to grips with both the nature of the Islamist threat and the fact that terrorism is a tool of asymmetric warfare.

Good luck. This is a much needed political effort by the administration because much of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment that has been writing endless ” What is the new role for NATO ? ” articles for Foreign Affairs for the last 12 years is in a deep psychological denial not since the MP’s who jeered Winston Churchill in parliament in 1938.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2003

THE TWO BEST STUDENT COMMENTS I’VE HEARD IN A WHILE

” Well then…what would John Locke have thought of the French Revolution ? “

and:

” Polybius wanted a good government but John Locke wanted a good society “

I suddenly felt like my time as an educator was well-spent.


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