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January 15, 2009
Barnett: "we still don't have an agency that concentrates on getting postwars correct?"
There's a lot of material on Thomas Barnett's often interesting - and frequently updated - blog. I'm someone who tends to write very long answers to even apparently simple questions - so it's bracing for me to see such sharp, snappy, timely responses to issues in the news. Today, Barnett responds to an article on the recently available draft federal history of reconstruction in Iraq by posting that:
after the great debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan, we still don't have an agency that concentrates on getting postwars correct?...It was almost exactly five years ago that I first started preaching in the brief about the need for a Department of Everything Else.Not that visionary; just didn't have my head up my ass.
I still think there's often a need for complexity - and, for that matter, a need to complicate and critique much of Barnett's work. However, I do look forward to seeing these much quicker responses appearing in FeedDemon.
Posted by jon_mendel at January 15, 2009 03:33 PM
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