24 Dec
SEASON’S GREETINGS
A healthy, joyous, industrious, and challenging 2008 to all readers and commentators of this blog.
A response by Con George-Kotzabasis to:
All the President’s Enablers by Paul Krugman
The New York Times July 20, 2007
The fundamental principle of power and of any political activity is that these should never be any appearance of weakness. Niccolo Machiavelli
The eminent [...]
17 Dec
Forget Legacy-Building:Iraq is NO Japan Mr. President
By David Sanger, Washington Note, January 1, 2006
The following reply is republished here as it clearly shows how wrong all the critics of the war in Iraq and its ‘unraveling’ have been. It’s obvious now, except for those who continue to be in a state of denial, that the new [...]
9 Dec
Dear readers of the Global Journal
I’m republishing this proposal sent to President Bush as Washington politicians were attempting in the mid stages of the Surge to micro-manage the war.
By Con George-Kotzabasis
The following was written on April 11, 2004 and was sent to President Bush on the same date. It’s republished now, as the Bush administration [...]
6 Dec
By Con George-Kotzabasis
It’s in the nature of power politics from the Roman republican times of Scipio Africanus (Carthage must be destroyed), to our own that no superpower can metastasize itself into isolationism, as your “minding our own business” implies. A benign superpower such as America by its ineluctable engagement with the world is the axis [...]
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