Three Interesting Articles
Like the label on the tin says:
1) From Frank Rich Thomas Frank, How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing. Basically, the College Republicans of the 1980s went into business - the business of politics.
2) Newt Gingrich is an arse, but every once in a while he gets something right. In this case, he asks of his fellow conservatives what they would have done if they were Nelson Mandela? Gingrich suggests that Mandela, much like George Washington, did what he had to do and took what allies were available to gain freedom for his people.
3) An interesting article about the war on terror. Money quote: Clausewitz may have been a characteristically modern thinker about war, but at least part of his famous declaration that war was politics by other means was an observation about wars and victors past as well as future. I think the first basic thing that any state or society going into a war would consider is: what would be victory and when might we expect to achieve it? The second thing, following directly on that, is “how”?
1) From Frank Rich Thomas Frank, How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing. Basically, the College Republicans of the 1980s went into business - the business of politics.
2) Newt Gingrich is an arse, but every once in a while he gets something right. In this case, he asks of his fellow conservatives what they would have done if they were Nelson Mandela? Gingrich suggests that Mandela, much like George Washington, did what he had to do and took what allies were available to gain freedom for his people.
3) An interesting article about the war on terror. Money quote: Clausewitz may have been a characteristically modern thinker about war, but at least part of his famous declaration that war was politics by other means was an observation about wars and victors past as well as future. I think the first basic thing that any state or society going into a war would consider is: what would be victory and when might we expect to achieve it? The second thing, following directly on that, is “how”?