RECOMMENDED READING EL GRANDEHad to take a couple of days off from blogging and in the interim there were some excellent, stimulating and important posts out there. This is one of those times that I wish there were four of me so I could have thrown my two cents into these discussions. I still may, but in the meantime:
Bush GOP loyalism vs. Movement Conservatism? :
Bruce Kesler, always lucid and hard-hitting
, initiated a major debate in the Right Blogosphere over "
Conservative Battle Fatigue" which he followed up with "
Selling-out our principles: Reason to break with the administration?" and "
Tapscott’s New Contract With America". Conservative bloggers who joined Bruce include
Mark Tapscott,
Captain's Quarters ( also
here and
here),
Professor Bainbridge (and
here and
here),
The Anchoress,
Instapundit,
and
Adam Graham. The debate is also being noticed
elsewhere.
On Liberal Education:
Federalist X at
Amendment Nine has the second part of his series on liberal education,
"(ii) Liberal Education in a Nutshell " (
Part I is here ) looking specifically at the ideas of Jacob Klein and the "New Program" of St. John's College. Hint - clicking the wiki entry is worth it if you want to measure your own progress in reading great books. My reads were scattered throughout the list.
War and Strategy:Wiggins at
Opposed Systems Design has two excellent posts "
Yarger’s Little Book" and "
DoD 3000 follow-up: Momentum and SOAs" while
Sonny at
FX -Based defends EBO from a slashing attack by
Ralph Peters ( see also
John Robb on Peters/EBO).
On Iran:
Matthew Hogan of
Aqoul has two posts worth reading - "
First As Tragedy, Then As Farsi: Ahmadinejad's Letter" and one which will interest
Dave and
Marc, "
Ahmadinejad's 1953 Reference: The Skeleton in the Regime's Closet Reaching Out?".
On Networks (and resiliency):Dr. Von has two posts here "
Some Quick Thoughts on Resiliency in (Social) Networks " and
"
Analyzing the War on Terror in the Context of Network Theory" .
Noah of
DefenseTechenlists Valdis Krebs to analyze the NSA story ( hat tip
John Robb) .
That's it.