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2006-11-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by .com 2006-11-10 05:44|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This does concern me. Realpolitik has always been a disaster, because its proponents are so fond of making "We're all men of the world" compromises that harm all concerned.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-10 08:07|| 2006-11-10 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 "The village elders on the Iraq Survey Group who will perform this duty are Lee Hamilton, Vernon Jordan, Ed Meese, Sandra Day O'Connor, Leon Panetta, former Clinton Defense Secretary Bill Perry, former Sens. Chuck Robb and Alan Simpson, and the secretary of defense designate, Robert Gates."

I'm not just "concerned": I'm wondering what the hell Bush could possibly be thinking.

But I know what I think: I think we're fucked.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-11-10 08:12|| 2006-11-10 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 End of post WWII US supremacy? End of Pax Americana?

Posted by fmr mil contractor 2006-11-10 09:47|| 2006-11-10 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Might as well have put Jimmuh in the group.

"We the ISG, have decided that America should bend over and take it from now on."

Posted by Parabellum 2006-11-10 17:23|| 2006-11-10 17:23|| Front Page Top

#5 It may well mean the end of global Pax Americana. To be replaced by a more limited, regional Pax Americana.

It's longe been my view that the global Pax Americana was based on a (flawed and unworkable) transnational vision.

Those who don't like an interventionist America, will find they like an isolationist one a lot less.

Brave New World may yet prove geopolitically (as opposed to politically) remarkably prophetic.

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-10 17:25|| 2006-11-10 17:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Global Lord of the Flies will be a refreshing return to normalcy and fun to watch from Fortress America.

Posted by ed 2006-11-10 18:08|| 2006-11-10 18:08|| Front Page Top

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