but it is puppet-master Gepetto
that we need to REALLY worry about.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/6926/Conservatives should be forewarned. Barnett is not a Republican and he admits to voting for Al Gore in the last presidential election. One gets the impression that he will vote Democratic in 2004, despite Kerry’s statements that going into Iraq was a mistake. Barnett states that it was necessary, and that the United States should get involved in toppling more corrupt dictators. Obviously, Barnett is also not your typical liberal either. What he appears to be, in many respects, is an internationalist and/or a globalist. One word he uses frequently is “globalization,” sometimes capitalized to indicate stages that have occurred during the 20th Century. He almost seems to see America as having a messianic role in the 21st Century, leading a sometimes-unwilling world to its own best destiny.
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3477.htmlhttp://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives/week_2004_05_23.htmlPNM’s called to the global stage; I’m called to the Pentagon
Dateline: Crowne Plaza Hamilton, Washington DC 7 July 2004
Got a call late last week from the actual office of the Secretary of Defense (not the huge bureaucracy known collectively as OSD but his actual office): a request to fly in today to brief someone special.
I get to the Pentagon a couple of hours earlier than my scheduled brief so I can meet with a colonel just back from Central Command in Baghdad. He’s set to do a big lessons learned document on acquisitions and logistics, and he’s a big fan of the Sys Admin concept. So we grab an empty office and chat our way through his take on the big issues coming out of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This guy’s been to basically all of the shows going back to Panama in ’89, so he’s a wealth of information and experience. I give him my impressions of the big changes exemplified by the advent of the Sys Admin function, and we separate promising to exchange products in the future, plus set up some good opportunities for me to brief in his community. It’s an exciting exchange; I feel like we’re plotting a revolution from within.
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives/week_2004_07_04.htmlSeptember 03, 2004
Yes, I think the Dems would do better across the board in running the country, and I will vote for Kerry, but I suspect just enough of the undecideds out there will see a fairly scary world right now requiring a fairly bold president, so I think Bush and Cheney will squeak by. And the polls suggest that. Bush had a slight lead going into the convention, which isn't how a wounded president (like "41" in '92) looks when he's getting ready to be unseated.
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