The Belmont Club: The Wilders film

The Belmont Club: The Wilders film
In analyzing the film and it likely consequences, Wretchard comes to a depressing conclusion

With Bush's coalition warfighting strategy under attack both from liberals and conservatives, the public may be left with stark choice of either regarding Islam as an misunderstood ideological "friend" -- the abstract equivalent of a protected minority class -- or as an implacable enemy, one bent on the destruction of the West. The problem with this formulation is that the pacifist approach is certain to be discredited over time because Islamic radicalism will implacably attack. And without the coalition strategy available policy will oscillate between the extremes. The price for not fighting the War on Terror effectively is that it eventually degenerates into a War of Civilizations.

I am often worried about the paths that the Long War is going to take.

Book Review: Blueprint for Action by Thomas P.M. Barnett

Concrete steps for a world you want to live in

Jun 24, 2007 by

Nick Chalko

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Blue Print for Action by Thomas P.M. Barnett

★★★★☆

Barnett's follow up to the Pentagon's New Map is a thought provoking book with detailed concrete steps we can take to "a future worth creating".

His main points are:

• Need a SysAdmin force (Police and Civil Service) not just a Leviathan(Unbeatable Military)


• The Marine Corps and the Army will focus on "Small Wars"


• The rest of the core will have to help with the Sys Admin tasks for things to work


• China will (and will have to) become a partner in the process

I really enjoyed the book and I am hopeful that I can be a part of creating that kind of future. However one part really worries me.
Barnett suggest we trade Taiwan to China for there support in removing Kim Il Jung.

I think this is a horrible idea. Selling out Tiawan is going to send the wrong signals to Japan, Thailand, and other Asian country. Barnett points out how China is in a position to waver between threats and trade to get what it wants and can deter most of our efforts in the area at will, but in this case thinks China will act in a way that benefits the United States. I hope the United States finds a way that deals with North Korea without selling out it friends in Taiwan.

Everyone interested in world politics should read this book because, for Good and Bad, it will shape international political thought in the United States for the next Decade

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