And you can't take it out of foreign policy, either, as Moira Whelan argues. The idea that national security issues can or should exist in some pristine universe beyong the petty cut-and-thrust of actually existing American politics is dumb and counterproductive.
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You Can't Take The Politics Out of Politics
13 Aug 2007 03:14 pm
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Matt, you are right.
Somebody actually made the argument that politicians are anything but crooks and liars in any area of discourse?
Who might that be? I mean, other than someone with an obvious connection to said crooks and liars?
See, this kind of discussion usually means either that somebody is just dredging up some topic to make a "pointless point" or that somebody is just an idiot - or both.
Reading the article, I see that most of her argument appears to be that the FP community doesn't listen to, and talks down to, the rest of us. Well, duh! That's their bailiwick. It's nice that they're being called out on that, but it's no surprise.
Chimpanzees have primate hierarchies. Welcome to this fact.
Somebody once said, "Question authority". When did this become news all over again?
Fred,
I'm thinking of betting the farm on Delphi Automotive.
$26 billion in sales...market cap of a few hundred million...GM and Ford finally proftable...aaah!
Stop me, please:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=DPHIQ.PK
As for foreign policy and politics, it's hard to imagine any foreign policy that doesn't benefit some American special interest far more than "America" as a whole.
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Posted by alphie | August 13, 2007 3:49 PM