Who Lost Pakistan? Special
705P Eastern Time: John Bolton, AEI, re Who Lost Pakistan? re the Taliban's Atomic Threat. Militants Block
Fleeing Pakistani Capital Journal:
The Left Grumbles on Afghanistan Taliban Battle Tests Pakistan
720P: Jon Hilsenrath, Wall Street Journal: Jon Hilsenrath, Wall Street Journal, re Friedman
Resigns
From N.Y. Fed (Resignation
letter) Fed Directors' Ties to Banks Scrutinized
735P: Professional Roundtable with Jodi Schneider, CQ, Mona Charen, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re Dems Shun Specter, Undercut Obama and Reid
- David Paul Kuhn, RCP Republicans in Wilderness: Is the Party Over?
- Michael Grunwald, Time Revisiting 'The Case Against Sotomayor
750P: Continued re Obama Releases
$3.4T Budget Plan, Will Propose
$17B in Cuts Obama Tells
Journalists To Stress 'Significant' Nature of Cuts
820P: Ed Hayes, attorney, re David Souter retires, and Sonia Sotomayr approaches the bench, re Associate Justice Bronx.
835P: Jim McTague, Barron's, Financial Roundtable, John Tamny, Realclearmarkets.com, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Where You'll See Real Recovery First - Bill Fleckenstein, MSN Money
850P: Continued re New York & London: Twins in Finance & Folly - Joe Nocera, New York Times As Investors Circle Ailing Banks, The Fed Sets Limits - New York Times
905P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, from Jerusalem, re pending visit by Pope to Jerusalem, re Netanyahu goes to Egypt.
920P: Aaron Klein, author, "The Late Great State of Israel," re the immediate threats to Israeli security, re Jews vs Jew over the security of the Jewish State.
935P: George Friedman, author, "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century," re the geopolitical map in 2009, its origins, meaning and future, re a projection into the struggles of the alliances in 2050, Japans vs the United States, with Turkey siding with Japan, Germany siding with Turkey, Great Britain siding with the United States, the greater Poland the battlefield.
955P: Exeunt with Jim McTague, Barron's, re White House briefing on healthcare initiative.
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720P: Martin Wolf, Financial Times re Eurozone rates cut to record 1% low ECB sets out strategy to boost economy and reduces rate to the lowest since the creation of the single currency in 1999
735P: Professional Roundtable Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, Forbes.com, Ann Marlowe, re Who Lost Pakistan?
750P: Continued re Taliban
Battle Tests Pakistan
805P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re political roundtable
820P: Continued re Obama Releases
$3.4T Budget Plan Will Propose
$17B in Cuts Obama Tells
Journalists To Stress 'Significant' Nature of Cuts
835P: Arthur I. Miller, author, "Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung," re the conversation between the eminent physicist Pauli and the pioneering Jung re the mysterious primary number 137. Part 2, re 3 into 4 and 137 and synchronicity.
850P: Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe In A Mirror," re NASA prep for Hubble rescue mission, re NASA put under the black cloud of review by Obama administration.
905P: Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times, re the anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake and the thuggish endeavor of the local Communist Party to suppress the protests of the parents who lost children in the collapsed school buildings.
920P: Zahid Hussain, Wall Street Journal, at Islamabad, Who Lost Pakistan? from the point of view of the Pakistan capital.
935P: Barbara Moran, author, "The Day We Lost the H-Bomb," re Curtis LeMay's decision to reshape the Strategic Air Command into a continually flying nuke threat, re the collision of a refuel tanker and B-52 over Spain and the disperasal of hudrogen bombs over the landscape and into the sea.
955P: Exeunt, re Debra Burlingame and the 9/11 families.
Mr. Unger is all wrong with his suggetion that Dick Cheney is what is wrong with the Rep. Party and Gen. Powell is what is right with it. I rather like the idea that the party has been seen to have moved to the left, while the D's have moved even farther left, and the move left is the party's error. Smaller government is what the nation needs, even if they think right now that they deserve more government. Eventually the loss of librerty will motivate the center to demand a return of their liberty, and a leader will emerge to help them get it. For now the center will test the statism waters and eventually they will determine it is not to their liking. Amercan Exceptionalism is a permanent aspect of the country and it will eventurally return to the front after the seduction of socialism is recognized.
"Amercan Exceptionalism is a permanent aspect of the country"
Unlikely. Especially not if we keep blundering from war to war to war under the illusion that we are somehow immune to the effects of endless conflict.
Is there confusion between Exceptionalism and Imperialism--America has been accused of Imperialism, but for it to be true Japan, S. Korea, The Phillipines and much of Europe would not be sovereigns. Nor would Iraq.
I stand by my original statement.
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I use Exceptionalism in the generally accepted way. Let me cite the following from Wikipedia, that last refuge of the too-lazy as well as the too-busy:
"The basis most commonly cited for American exceptionalism is the idea that the United States and its people differ from other nations, at least on a historical basis, as an association of people who came from numerous places throughout the world but who hold a common bond in standing for certain self-evident truths, like freedom, inalienable natural and human rights, democracy, republicanism, the rule of law, civil liberty, civic virtue, the common good, fair play, private property, and Constitutional government; and that through these values America diverged from the rest of the world at least during its early years."
But to the debatable extent that the the above ever really even existed, they will be sure to vanish--are vanishing--under the onslaught of war without end.
Let's not even talk about the loss of freedoms that this absurd Global War on the Emotion Called Terror that the Neocons have brought us. Prior to World War One most free peoples had the right to travel without a passport. The roots of the current health care crisis, soon to devour the few medical freedoms left to us, have their roots in the economic policies of the so-called "Good War." And et goddamn cetera.
So no misunderstanding at all. Just despair over the sheer gormlesness of those who wrongly hold themselves to be conservative.
The first sentence of paragraph four should read: "Let's not even talk about the loss of freedoms experienced by America since the advent of the absurd Global War on the Emotion Called Terror that the Neocons brought us."