We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/food_for_though.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:58:45 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification From an internview with Colonel Harry Summers, back in 1996. Do you think the political leaders are too focused on elections too much of the time? That elections lead them to build up expectations, promise solutions to problems that they find it very difficult to do anything about once in office? Their basis of power rests with the American people, and therefore they have got to be responsive to the wishes and desires of the American people. So what we would see as domestic politicking, they would argue is sort of the nature of the beast. Richard Neustadt wrote a... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/food_for_though.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/food_for_though.html Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:42:52 -0600 The Straw Giant. The scary thing is that it was written twenty years ago and the same gar-bahj keeps recycling itself in Foggy Bottom...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/food_for_though.html#comment-61937 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/food_for_though.html#comment-61937 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:29:24 -0600