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General George C. Marshall—essentially
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
“Liberal?” Major Hackensack said it like the word “pedophile.” “You a liberal, British journalist?” I swallowed. The Iraqis were watching us too, wondering if their fates were being decided by this incomprehensible but clearly ill-tempered exchange. “You’ve been sent here because of the most conservative White House in living memory. Truly, Major,
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Effective power (as opposed to elected, or intended, power) was passed to a vast army of managers and civil servants who defined the regulations, and therefore could redefine the intent of Congress, not intentionally, but simply because no one person could comprehend the whole.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The acid test is in performance, not promises. The millions of dispossessed in Asia care not and know not of theory. They want a better life. They want a more equal, just society.21
Graham Allison, Ali Wyne, Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger • Lee Kuan Yew
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha writes, “Arrest the machine that purports to employ democracy but rather causes the successive refraction of her.” The most damaging legacy of the West has been its power to decide who our enemies are, turning us not only against our own people, like North and South Korea, but turning me against myself.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
I sip my coffee. It’s good. “The de facto king of Iraq is a Kissinger acolyte named L. Paul Bremer III. On taking office, he passed two edicts that have shaped the occupation. Edict number one ruled that any member of the Ba’ath Party above a certain rank was to be sacked. With one stroke of the pen Bremer consigned to the scrap-heap the very civil
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