RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n
Sunday…Sunday…Sunday….where action is the attraction…<\/p>\n
Bruce Kesler<\/a><\/strong> -” Interagency Coordination Requires Dems & Reps To Come Together<\/a>“<\/p>\n Top billing<\/strong>. The issue, while seemingly a dry one of inside-the-beltway bureaucratic wrangling among deputy assistant secretaries really could not be more important for increasing the resiliency of U.S. foreign policy. Why can’t the United States respond effectively to nimble 4GW groups ? Look to the lack of “operational jointness<\/a>“, ” unified action<\/a>” and ” System Administration<\/a>” and the plethora of turf battles and bureaucratic empire building. More on this topic in the near future.<\/p>\n James McCormick<\/strong> -“Ikl\u00e9 \u2014 Annihilation From Within<\/a>“<\/p>\n A deep and probing review at Chicago Boyz<\/strong> <\/a>of an important book (I’m reading it now).<\/p>\n Gabriel Kolko<\/strong> at DNI <\/strong><\/a>-” The Age of Perpetual Conflict<\/a>“<\/p>\n Kolko is the well known Marxist historian and one of the more credible scholars (i.e. he’s a real historian, not a Noam Comsky type polemicist) with an unrelentingly critical view of the United States. I’m holding this one up as a negative example; as a vigorous argument for isolationism and for a weakness of reasoning that assumes as static benefits of global interventionism ( bad actions deterred by the potential of intervention are ignored but are assumed to continue after a shift to isolationism) as a given while counting only the costs.<\/p>\n Catholicgauze <\/a><\/strong>-“Turkish Payback to Ralph Peters and Signs of Things to Come?<\/a> “<\/p>\n I agree this is disturbing. I am no expert on Turkish politics but there seems to be an emerging strand of crypto-Islamist rejectionism of the West in Turkey that is larger than issues over Iraq. To hazard a guess, anti-Americanism is partly a safe “euphemistic” discourse to hide opposition to secularist Kemalism<\/a> ( which if you oppose openly in Turkey -or even not so openly -that gets your party banned and perhaps you a jail sentence). Anti-Americanism or anti-Westernism can be presented as Turkish nationalism, even when it masks an ideology that is decidely transnationalist.<\/p>\n Marc Schulman<\/strong> – “Who Is George Soros? <\/a>“<\/p>\n Speaking of disturbing. George Soros<\/strong> appears to be becoming unhinged. Does he realize that he – a major Democratic Party and liberal organization contributor – is openly suggesting introducing Kangaroo Courts to try Republicans and conservatives or is he so isolated in a bubble that he does not realize how that statement sounds to folks who are not on the MoveOn.org<\/strong> email list ?<\/p>\n How would Soros like somebody saying ” We should de-naturalize and deport politically active, authoritarian, crackpot, billionaires who violate the Logan Act<\/strong> <\/a>?”<\/p>\n Gunnar Peterson<\/strong><\/a> – “Protect the transaction<\/a>“<\/p>\n