Geopolitics Is All About Leverage. We Cannot

America Needs Rebooting.

Watching Both The Health Care And Climate/energy Debates In Congress, It Is Hard Not To Draw The Following Conclusion: There Is Only One Thing Worse Than One-party Autocracy, And That Is One-party Democracy, Which Is What We Have In America Today. One-party Autocracy Certainly Has Its Drawbacks. But When It Is Led By A Reasonably Enlightened Group Of People, As China Is Today, It Can Also Have Great Advantages.

We've Gone From Thinking The Fuels That Powered Our Growth Were Inexpensive, Inexhaustible And Benign To Understanding They Are Exhaustible, Expensive And Toxic. Once You Frame The Problem That Way, People Will Look At Solutions Differently.

Iraq May Still Have A Decent Outcome...but Even If It Becomes Switzerland, We Overpaid For It.

It Is Hard To Partner With Someone When You Become So Radioactive No One Wants To Stand Next To You.