Hawk and Dove

I was born in a most joyous time. Indeed, as I watched from my crib, the Evil Empire tumbled. And I can say, from experience, that coming into this world at the end of history is really quite something.

Glibness aside, I never lived under the threat of the bomb. I do not know that fear and barring a disastrous jack-knife in the international order, I never will.

Why then should I have found the above excerpt so engaging? Partially it is that there are few windows into the whirring machinery that is our government. That the intersection of interests and relationships functions as one is demonstrated in Kenneman and Nitze in a way that is unusually compelling.

The other is wondering who within today's debates occupy these archetypes?

Needless to say, I'll be buying this book.

The headline doesn't match the article. I hate when that happens.

Virtually all people with a high IQ that simply seek clarity on the current market conditions and the implications; have a constantly evolving world view!

"it's what would his ADVISORS (who are discussed at length in the article) say to Obama."

If they could view the world today or had the vision that was given to Nixon and Kissinger they would know that the 70 years of the communist experiment of creation were over and the next phase was for capital to move to the empires that have controlled Labor--that APPEAR to view labor compassionatly.
That phase would expose the error of vaporizing either the producers or consumers for a time. Though since the vaporizing powers have been carefully preserved in this containment of Communism and protector of Capitol we have some time to consider the patiece ane efficacy of thinkers who sometimes think in formative periods of 70 years and believe in an end of time.

in the last sentence plelase change patiece to patience and period of formation to period of indetermination

The good wisdom of Nitze also gave us the chief archetects of Iraq War as his students in the same year!!!! What was he smoking in that year!!!! Nitze was always wrong in his vision and outlook, but capable as a bearaucrat. He was also adept at picking not so brilliant people to work for him.

"To Nitze capabilities did matter, perhaps even more than intentions."

It is precisely this that turned US military thinking into a senseless numbers game. War cannot be divorced from political life, the realm of intentions; and whenever this occurs in our thinking about war, the many links that connect the two elements are destroyed and we are left with something pointless and devoid of sense.

Nitze did us great harm. Half a century of his bureaucratic success destroyed our ability to really think about our interaction with the world.