Thanks to column width I was unable to post this link in the comments part of our discussion of John McTasty.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102860.html?referrer=emailarticle
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"Finally, what is with this whole making CEO’s economic advisors thing?"
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding? Making a CEO an economic advisor makes perfect sense to me. Especially if you are also a fan of:
-making a shoddy lawyer and electricity big whig the leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
-making a corrupt jerk with an econ degree a head of the Environmental Protection Agency and later Secretary of Health and Human Services
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to sound so partisan.
ReplyDeleteAdvisors and cabinet appointees often seem to be ill-fitting jerkweeds, regardless of which party is in the White House.
Most of our ambassadors don't even speak the language of the country to which they are sent.
And it's rumoured even Obama is getting geopolitical advice from ultra-hawk and Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Muslim Skinning, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
I'm sorry but anyone who has spent their entire life observing the human toll of international relations and then goes on to write a book about it called "The Grand Chessboard" is a fucking cockrocker, plain and simple, whether or not he at times showed a softer side while working for Obama or Amnesty International or Buddha himself.
ReplyDeleteAnd one's Iraq War position (pre or post) should probably be less of a litmus test than we've grown accustomed to using it.
Zbigniew Brzezinski was probably was against invading Iraq not to save 500,000 lives but because he wanted to keep his bishop in good position to seriously fuck up Iran.
"The Grand Chessboard" indeed.
I also can't abide by a man whose first and last names are routinely used by Blogger for word verification.
The Global Hungry Hungry Hippos Gameboard
ReplyDeleteCheck out this video interview with Brzezinski where he details some of his experiences in the international face-off that is geopolitics.
ReplyDeleteKissinger is looking yellower and more plastic than usual.
I don't find the chessboard reference all that distasteful. It is a realistic way of how international diplomacy tends to work. (That's not to say that is how it SHOULD work, of course.)
ReplyDeleteChessboard? I thought is was the Bigger-Than-All-Outdoors Crossfire Rink.
ReplyDeleteThe "How Socialism Could Work" team on international diplomacy:
ReplyDeleteExhibit A
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