Thurston Robert Macaire Howell p 16

This was from around 06:

"Yet, it turns out that even the magnitude of the threat driving cold war military spending and trade concessions may have been exaggerated.[1]

American policy makers have compartmentalized decisions on foreign and military policy from trade, industry, urban economics, and the general welfare, and have subordinated the latter to the former, because of weaknesses in our system which require or allow such compartmentalization, on which foreigners and multinationals have been able to game.[2]

Is it now too late, for our cities, industries, and safety, for Americans to see that social, economic, and military strength hang together?[3] Is it too late to adopt producerism rather than consumerism? To promote a middle class, the general welfare, to adopt a 21^ST Century version of the American System?"[4]

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[1] T. Gervasi, The Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy, Harper & Row, 1986.

[2] See: Johnson, Japan: Who Governs?, p. 106:”’If Japan told Washington it would no longer sell computer chips to the United States, the Pentagon would be totally helpless….Japan now has a decisive technological advantage.’” Bobbitt, Shield, p. 702. When Congress has had to make trade-related sausage, it has usually been foreign sausage.

[3] Peter Paret, Understanding War, Essays On Clausewitz and the History of Military Power, “The New Military History”, Princeton, 1992, p. 209.

[4] Or perhaps it is time for Francis Fukuyama’s, The End Of History And The Last Man(?) Free Press, 1992. (If the last man had had nationality, religion, economics, and politics, what would they have been: German, Protestant, British System, Whig?)

See also: Our Posthuman Future, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002. “… capitalist liberal democratic institutions have been successful because they are grounded in assumptions about human nature that are far more realistic than those of their competitors.” Our Posthuman Future, p. 106. See however Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation Of History, and Johnson, Japan: Who Governs; Miti, for an antidote to Fukuyama.