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Sunday, November 17, 2013
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MY VIEW CF SOFT POWER
Call it Civilizational Mercantilist Nationalism, rather than the now outdated, and misleading, term Imperialism.
See also Gabor Steingart, The War For Wealth.
I would call it, rather, as I have said before, a war for mere survival. Not a war anyone would want.
All use, they and we, have been using, your ideologies, open market arrangements, prejudices, and preferences, and the weak structure of our political system and the international system itself, very much against us, every moment that goes by.
Steingart refers to soft power. That says it nicely.
See also Gabor Steingart, The War For Wealth.
I would call it, rather, as I have said before, a war for mere survival. Not a war anyone would want.
All use, they and we, have been using, your ideologies, open market arrangements, prejudices, and preferences, and the weak structure of our political system and the international system itself, very much against us, every moment that goes by.
Steingart refers to soft power. That says it nicely.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Street Wrecker Love
(Revised lyrics )
She:
Get the hell away, buddy,
Get the hell away.
Get the hell away, asshole,
not like yesterday,
We broke up ten times, mister,
all like yesterday.
Get the hell away, buddy,
Make it far away.
He:
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for the road.
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we two for the road.
She:
(repeat.)
He:
(repeat.)
She:
Get the hell away, buddy,
Get the hell away.
Get the hell away, asshole,
not like yesterday,
We broke up ten times, mister,
all like yesterday.
Get the hell away, buddy,
Make it far away.
He:
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for the road.
Bebe bebe we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we made for each other,
we two for the road.
She:
(repeat.)
He:
(repeat.)
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
FAILURE OF FDR RE EUROPE AND RUSSIA LEAD TO ECONOMIC NEED TO GLOBALIZE
This really accelerated the decline of the West.
The Marshall Plan started out as a restoration program centered on the West, and later occupation and military arrangements, including Japan, as a defense against Soviet encroachments in the West and in Asia, but almost immediately turned willy nilly into a globalizing program under the Truman Doctrine.
Kennan in Memoirs points out his frustration, and makes the distinctions he promoted regarding aid to the West versus willy nilly economic aid to Truman doctrine anti communist claimants anywhere. Point well taken.
Nevertheless, since the Russians had been allowed to place Eastern Europe off limits economically, Western European recovery perhaps implied not merely Marshall Plan aid there, and aid to Japan, but economic globalization elsewhere, not merely to oppose the spread of communism elsewhere, but to make up the economic deficit resulting from the economic loss of Eastern Europe. This is a point which, if true, Kennan, back then, in say 1947, was not alive to. Yet, so much he says about that period is very enlightening nevertheless.
The destruction of colonial empires, advocated by the US, only hastened the process of market capitalist globalization.
My own view is we should have defended those empires, not disbanded, or appropriated, them, and permanently resisted booming the underdeveloped world.
Call it Civilizational Mercantilism, rather than the now misleading term Imperialism.
The Marshall Plan started out as a restoration program centered on the West, and later occupation and military arrangements, including Japan, as a defense against Soviet encroachments in the West and in Asia, but almost immediately turned willy nilly into a globalizing program under the Truman Doctrine.
Kennan in Memoirs points out his frustration, and makes the distinctions he promoted regarding aid to the West versus willy nilly economic aid to Truman doctrine anti communist claimants anywhere. Point well taken.
Nevertheless, since the Russians had been allowed to place Eastern Europe off limits economically, Western European recovery perhaps implied not merely Marshall Plan aid there, and aid to Japan, but economic globalization elsewhere, not merely to oppose the spread of communism elsewhere, but to make up the economic deficit resulting from the economic loss of Eastern Europe. This is a point which, if true, Kennan, back then, in say 1947, was not alive to. Yet, so much he says about that period is very enlightening nevertheless.
The destruction of colonial empires, advocated by the US, only hastened the process of market capitalist globalization.
My own view is we should have defended those empires, not disbanded, or appropriated, them, and permanently resisted booming the underdeveloped world.
Call it Civilizational Mercantilism, rather than the now misleading term Imperialism.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
NOT A BIG SURPRISE REUTERS NEWS BRITISH SECURITY PERSONNEL LAMBASTING SNOWDEN
It is a lesson, isn't it, in not to use contractors, and not to cooperate too much with foreign governments, however so called friendly they may be termed to be by feckless politicians.
It really is, below the radar, another lesson in an old, outmoded, concept, nationalism.
Al Qaeda, frankly, going forward, is the least of their worries.
It really is, below the radar, another lesson in an old, outmoded, concept, nationalism.
Al Qaeda, frankly, going forward, is the least of their worries.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
WHY NOT LAISSEZ FAIRY GROW YOUR FUTURE ENEMIES
Quote from prior post here: "Especially, why grow your future enemies, even if it seems a great bargain today?"
Just read a passage in Kennan's Memoirs, re how, back in the early thirties, in the depression, German machine tool makers had felt they had to turn, in market capitalist desperation, to Soviet orders.........
Just read a passage in Kennan's Memoirs, re how, back in the early thirties, in the depression, German machine tool makers had felt they had to turn, in market capitalist desperation, to Soviet orders.........
Monday, November 4, 2013
re DK CURRENT POST RE WWII WASHINGTON ELITES
"That was an era where our elites could see and think clearly and make things happen...."
"... In any case, I cannot escape the conclusion that the qualities I observed among Roosevelt's top leadership--not to mention FDR himself--simply are not on display in Washington, D.C. today."
Reading Kennan's Memoirs, among other things, one has to wonder regarding how true these assertions are, in retrospect....p. 212: "the wreckage of FDR's policy with respect to Russia and Poland....", hardly an isolated topic for much needed criticism of administration wartime policy.
Granted, the 'make things happen' part rings truer, to me, than the 'think clearly' part, against the background of current Washington elites.
Roosevelt also played off his top leaders against each other in what some have called counterproductive ways. (Given our system, what choice was there really?)
His proximity to Morgenthau only reinforced an anti Germanism which I never knew ran so deep until reading Beschloss' book.
Morgenthau certainly could think clearly about what he wanted to happen to Germany.
"... In any case, I cannot escape the conclusion that the qualities I observed among Roosevelt's top leadership--not to mention FDR himself--simply are not on display in Washington, D.C. today."
Reading Kennan's Memoirs, among other things, one has to wonder regarding how true these assertions are, in retrospect....p. 212: "the wreckage of FDR's policy with respect to Russia and Poland....", hardly an isolated topic for much needed criticism of administration wartime policy.
Granted, the 'make things happen' part rings truer, to me, than the 'think clearly' part, against the background of current Washington elites.
Roosevelt also played off his top leaders against each other in what some have called counterproductive ways. (Given our system, what choice was there really?)
His proximity to Morgenthau only reinforced an anti Germanism which I never knew ran so deep until reading Beschloss' book.
Morgenthau certainly could think clearly about what he wanted to happen to Germany.
audience today so far
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Sunday, November 3, 2013
RETURNED AGAIN TO KENNAN'S MEMOIRS 1925 1950
No one seriously concerned, re structural problems, with our system, can avoid it.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
re REUTERS EUROPE'S SPIES WORK TOGETHER PREMATURE FINGER POINTING AT US GUARDIAN
Highly to be expected.
RE DUELING EXPERTS ACADEMICS WITHIN AND ACROSS DISCIPLINES ECONOMISTS ETC
An old post, commenting on nyt articles, touching on these topics:
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/re-technocrats-regulatory-paradigm.html
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/07/re-technocrats-regulatory-paradigm.html
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