June 16, 2013
In the libertarian imagination or, as Professor Hanley prefers, the libertarian psyche, the reduction in the power of government (or "government") means an increase in power for each libertarian or for the individual, which latter, as individuality, is presented as an ideal, but which each individual knows exclusively and therefore universally only through and as him- or herself. The libertarians do not recognize popularly sovereign liberal-democratic government as an extension of themselves, or, put more precisely, of this self. They may exploit or even admire democratic impulses and particular constitutional traditions, but their views are in this sense profoundly anti-democratic and constitutionally anti-constitutional.
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June 19, 2014
What other than the actual invasion of Iraq under proven-false premises could actually prove those premises false, at least as we articulated them to ourselves while, we believed, safely ignoring the always-wrong and resoundingly re-defeated defeatists?
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September 16, 2013
To the extent we cannot construct or re-construct the principles for a collective right to life in the age of weapons of destruction of the masses and disruption of global-ecological homeostasis, those principles may be expected to construct or re-construct themselves for us, and through us.
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On “Tales from the Geopolitical Crypt: Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich”
Well I got from Pete Wyden's account of Hiroshima, take it for what it's worth
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Kyoto was out because many moons before, Secretary Stimson had his honeymoon there
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Are you cosmically stupid instinctively, or do you work at it?
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It takes him nine months to decide on a mission we're already on, an actual new crisis would be beyond him, several would task him
to the limit. but we have the expertise of Biden
On “Portrait of a Failed Presidency: "What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?" by Kevin Mattson”
Right I'm just making the comparison between now and 1977. The Shah of Iran was still on his throne, although the Ayatollah's transfer
from Najaf to Paris, would hasten his departure.
Pannetta tried to pull a Turner, but that didn't hold so far. Now interest rates will like spike and we really didn't get around to fixing that
subprime problem, with the resetting rates
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Carter was a piker, with Obama just comparing their first year in office. At 10.2 (closer to 17%
unemployment, before the inevitable
hyperinflation and interest rate spike, there hasn't quite been a Halloween massacre, type purge of Langley, but not for lack of trying. With the Russians ruefully suggesting a possible first strike, the Iranians announcing ten more nuclear facilities, the upcoming show trials in NY. 'interesting times' my friends
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