SUNDAY RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n
The big buzz is over the Seymour Hersh article on Iran <\/a>( hat tip John Robb<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n Speaking of John, you should read his post “Dysfunctional Global Rules Sets<\/a>“. Of the meta-principles of the globalizing world, John looks most often at entropy in complex human systems. Frankly, the old, postwar, Cold War rule-set became obsolete in 1991 and only recently are western statesmen intellectually coming to grips with the need for the Core to hammer out some durable new ones, as Dr. Barnett<\/strong> <\/a>advocated in Blueprint For Action<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n Robb is pointing at tendency for short-term economic self-interest to mitigate against this kind of consensus building on new rule-sets( habituated by a half-century of Cold War ” free riding” on the American-dominated international system. Well, the U.S. taxpayer is no longer paying for this outmoded system, so the free ride is over, but few statesmen want to deal with the political implications that this change would entail for their own countries). Here though is a recent exception<\/a>.<\/p>\n Launching off that point, Tom<\/strong> asks <\/a>” What Would Churchill Do?<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Launching off of Tom, Dan of tdaxp<\/strong> <\/a> proposes “Operationalizing the Gap<\/a>“<\/p>\n Jeff<\/strong> of Caerdroia<\/a><\/strong> …. still survives<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stare into the grinning face of evil in “Where’s the Money and Other Questions About the Charles Taylor Escapade<\/a>” by Patricia Lee Sharpe<\/strong> at Whirledview<\/a>. ( BTW, PLS<\/strong> is NOT<\/em><\/strong> the Evil One).<\/p>\n The always fearless Razib<\/strong> at Gene Expression<\/strong> <\/a>with” Fists of the Patriarchy<\/a>“<\/p>\n Sean Meade<\/strong> at Interact<\/a><\/strong> asks “Which Historical Lunatic am I?”.<\/a> I took the test and I’m Caligula.<\/p>\n Dave Schuler<\/strong> of The Glittering Eye<\/strong> <\/a>has a nice post on freedom of expression and the gnostic Gospel of Judas.<\/a><\/p>\n New to the blogroll !<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Argghhh !<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n