Sunday, April 09, 2006
SUNDAY RECOMMENDED READING
The big buzz is over the Seymour Hersh article on Iran ( hat tip John Robb)
Speaking of John, you should read his post "Dysfunctional Global Rules Sets". 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 advocated in Blueprint For Action.
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.
Launching off that point, Tom asks " What Would Churchill Do?".
Launching off of Tom, Dan of tdaxp proposes "Operationalizing the Gap"
Jeff of Caerdroia .... still survives.
Stare into the grinning face of evil in "Where's the Money and Other Questions About the Charles Taylor Escapade" by Patricia Lee Sharpe at Whirledview. ( BTW, PLS is NOT the Evil One).
The always fearless Razib at Gene Expression with" Fists of the Patriarchy"
Sean Meade at Interact asks "Which Historical Lunatic am I?". I took the test and I'm Caligula.
Dave Schuler of The Glittering Eye has a nice post on freedom of expression and the gnostic Gospel of Judas.
New to the blogroll !
Argghhh !
Enterprise Resilience Management Blog
Reality, One Bite at a Time
That's it. ¶ 9:10 AM
The big buzz is over the Seymour Hersh article on Iran ( hat tip John Robb)
Speaking of John, you should read his post "Dysfunctional Global Rules Sets". 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 advocated in Blueprint For Action.
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.
Launching off that point, Tom asks " What Would Churchill Do?".
Launching off of Tom, Dan of tdaxp proposes "Operationalizing the Gap"
Jeff of Caerdroia .... still survives.
Stare into the grinning face of evil in "Where's the Money and Other Questions About the Charles Taylor Escapade" by Patricia Lee Sharpe at Whirledview. ( BTW, PLS is NOT the Evil One).
The always fearless Razib at Gene Expression with" Fists of the Patriarchy"
Sean Meade at Interact asks "Which Historical Lunatic am I?". I took the test and I'm Caligula.
Dave Schuler of The Glittering Eye has a nice post on freedom of expression and the gnostic Gospel of Judas.
New to the blogroll !
Argghhh !
Enterprise Resilience Management Blog
Reality, One Bite at a Time
That's it. ¶ 9:10 AM
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At least I'm not the "Mad King" of France ;o)
Another French ruler, the Spider-King, Louis XI, was known to bargain with his hat for divine intercession which was adorned with religious medals and served as sort of a mobile devotary.
Another French ruler, the Spider-King, Louis XI, was known to bargain with his hat for divine intercession which was adorned with religious medals and served as sort of a mobile devotary.
If Iran is planning on setting up enough centrifuges to produce 20 nuclear weapons per year, where does it lead? People who argue that an Iran with nukes is inevitable or that Iran needs a deterrent, fail to discuss where this all leads. Why would they stop at a few nukes?
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