The Long View

This is an interesting idea. The serious long-term point here is that debellicized states (states that have lost the capacity to wage war) are renouncing a key feature of modern sovereignty: not the right to self-defense, but the right to be consulted about the use of force elsewhere. If anything,

This blog post from 2007 is kind of eerie in how it could almost be current: * Cardinal Pell * Harry Potter * The implosion of Venezula Apparently nothing new ever happens. The Deluge; School Stories; Hyperinflation; Murtha Plan Disturbed by charges in the press of religious obscurantism in connection with global warming,

2007 was about the point when even John J. Reilly started to get tired of the administration of President George W. Bush. 911 & the Failure of Imagination; Warmed-Over Cold War; The Fate of the Unworthy There is more than one history of the world, as John Crowley never tires