Hello gang. Well here it is. My "big salvo" of the political campaign.
It is intended to analyze the present administration by CONSERVATIVE standards and especially with an eye to what it takes to win strategic struggles - even war - in the 21st Century.
It involves HTML a lot in the use of sidebars and popouts, since I wanted the main linear argument to be short and undaunting. So it cannot easily be emailed. But you'll find it at:
http://www.davidbrin.com/neocons.html
I will happily take brickbats and/or criticism about it and/or suggestions for more material. Just kindly do not quote me except when citing words and opinions that I actually say.
If you find it persuasive, please share it with undecideds - and decided conservatives who have at least an open mind - in battleground states.
Oh, and here's an item below.
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Last week, the Bush-Cheney campaign launched TV ads, and Bush in his political stump speech has been, attacking Kerry for proposing a "Kerry Doctrine" that would consist of a "global test" before launch a pre-emptive war. That line of attack is based on this comment from Kerry in the first debate:
"No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded -- and nor would I -- the right to preempt in any way necessary, to protect the United States of America. But if and when you do it, Jim, you've got to do it in a way that passes the, the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people, understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."
It struck me that I had heard of that "global test" before. Imagine the attack ads the Bush-Cheney could come up with based on this line:
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
What a bunch of wusses those Founding Fathers were! "... a decent respect for the opinions REQUIRES that they declare the causes which impel them..." [snort] Dubya wouldn't feel "required" to seek out the "opinions" of the French and other foreign America-haters, I can tell you that!
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The monsters have a huge advantage going in, folks. With home bases in Confederate and rural states, they get up to 30 extra electoral votes. The same ones that (by a margin of just one, plus Floridian shenanigans) made W the first president in a century without a plurality.
It's going to take some lifting by all of us... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
