The US policy in the area has been hypnotized by the oil, vitiated by Washington's (especially Foggy Bottom's) gnat like attention span, poor scholarship, careerism, WASP recruiting policies, Monica, narrow legalism, naivete masquerading as realpolitik, wishful thinking, insularity, confusion about unilateralism and multilateralism, some sort of breakdown in the CIA, and a bunch of other stuff I can't think of right now. And it's as bad, if not worse, in Europe.
[Edit] US policy has improved a bit the last few months but it could improve a lot more.
Who needs the Library of Alexandria when Frankw can write a one-paragraph summary like that? Kudos!
Of course, you did forget to mention Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura, the Trilateral Commission and the Chicago Cubs, but it pretty well covered US government in my lifetime. Good show. |
