clippings from Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog:

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: How much longer can we focus almost exclusively on funding the Leviathan while starving the SysAdmin force?: "Fighting now with F-15s we get catastrophic victories. What will we be shooting for with the F/A-22s? Absolutely pyrrhic ones?"


Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: Bush is easily the most radical president since LBJ: This is a book-hawking op-ed from those two great Economist writers ("The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America"), and it's a good one (they are both brilliant analysts). They call Bush's first administration the equivalent of most presidents' two administrations: not only did he remake American policy, he remade American conservatism.

From the terrorists: We are not feeling any strategic despair in Iraq—you are!: "This is the judgment from a pair of terrorism/Internet experts: when you track the chatter of the terror groups on the Web today, it's clear that:

There has been a drastic shift in mood in the last two years. Radicals who were downcast and perplexed in 2002 about the rapid defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan now feel exuberant about the global situation and, above all, the events in Iraq.

posted by Dan Flies @ 10/28/2004 11:54:00 AM