Looking Back

The Liberal Uses of Power
Editorial: The American Prospect

I stumbled across the hard copy of The American Prospect magazine above, and decided to look back at my comments around that time.

Moving Forward ?
From the same issue, to be read or reread:
Theocracy Now Juan Cole
Against the Neocons An interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
China No. 1Clyde Prestowitz

[ Meanwhile: further back* or forth? ]

[BTW: I contacted a congressional office today (in reference to these matters) and referred to this blog as the liaison between progressive and realism. It is also the liaison between academic and common sense. There is an interesting play on the word "academic"; quantitatively and in what matters.** A statistical relationship also plays with "common sense" and all this gets played out in the progress or reality we are responsible for. (Or the lack thereof and viscious cycle.)]

*the part that the U.S. played in the invasion of South Ossetia by Georgia must be investigated

** "academic" has an interesting flip-flop depending on its use in any field