>> The "problem" with foreign affairs is that it's basically a practical issue of how best to achieve our goals, which requires a deep respect for and knowledge of history (oh yeah, and good intelligence -- but don't get me started on Carter.).
Unfortunatly, Carter's grasp of intelligence issues and his competance in deciding how they should be handled can be neatly summed up in two words : Stansfield Turner.
Not until Clinton appointed Frank Deutch as DCI was there such a very smart man put in such a very wrong posting. With very very bad results.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
