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  • Krauthammer "Democratic Realism" (Must read and bookmark!)

    02/15/2004 12:02:50 PM PST · by Dutchgirl · 152 replies · 10,169+ views
    A E I ^ | February 12, 2004 | Charles Krauthammer
    A Unipolar World Americans have an healthy aversion to foreign policy. It stems from a sense of thrift: Who needs it? We’re protected by two great oceans, we have this continent practically to ourselves and we share it with just two neighbors, both friendly, one so friendly that its people seem intent upon moving in with us. It took three giants of the twentieth century to drag us into its great battles: Wilson into World War I, Roosevelt into World War II, Truman into the Cold War. And then it ended with one of the great anti-climaxes in history. Without...
  • Iraq Exit Strategy: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

    06/13/2003 10:44:24 AM PDT · by traditionalist · 13 replies · 272+ views
    Chronicles ^ | 6/13/2003 | Srdja Trifkovic
    Since WMDs were not the real reason for attacking Iraq, the question of the war’s true purpose remains unresolved. Almost two months since President Bush announced that “major combat operations” had come to an end the United States appears strangely uncertain of its post-war mission. Dozens of American soldiers have died in accidents and, much more worryingly, in hit-and-run attacks by assailants unknown: mysterious “diehard Saddam loyalists,” Tehran-prompted Shiite fanatics, and bandits who thrive on chaos are all suspected. The number of “peacetime” casualties—averaging a soldier a day—may soon exceed that of combat losses suffered in March-April. The cost of...
  • The Art Education Problem

    03/07/2003 7:23:46 AM PST · by vannrox · 82 replies · 835+ views
    ART Renewal Center ^ | FR Post 3-7-03 | Don Gray
    If we are looking today for a general level of art of serious purpose, art with profound content supported by significant aesthetics, we will not find it. Contemporary art has failed. If we are satisfied with superficial, artificial art that manipulates aesthetics for empty abstract, decorative effects, then we truly live in a "golden" artistic age ... for this kind of art is everywhere. The degree of present-day artistic collapse, compared to the height of past artistic achievement, can be seen in the velocity and extent of precipitous decline during the 20th Century, increasing since World War II. In...