A Tale of Two Georges Posted by Heather Hurlburt

I’ve been accused lately of being obsessed with the New York Yankees.  But really, is there a better parallel for America's travails in the world?

A once-proud franchise, that in the 1990s seemed utterly unbeatable… in some ways (much as I hate to admit it) the symbol of baseball itself… all that prestige now lost… scraping along at the bottom of the division… the infallible suddenly fallible… decent people doing their best stymied by utter arrogance at the top… management suddenly turning against the unusual schemes and personnel that they themselves installed...

Quick test:  Yankees or US? (click on the number for the answer)

1.The numbers we are seeing today are the lowest numbers that have ever been recorded.

2.It is my understanding George has kind of backed off and left everything up to ...

Let me quickly say something optimistic here.  Like the Yankees, the US remains incredibly stocked with money and talent.  But like the Yankees, we also face adversaries with new and impressive qualities. (Quick, who is the Manny Ramirez of the international community?)

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Sorry to be off topic, but I thought I'd see if I could send you over to the post I put up this morning reviewing Whitney Raas and Austin Long's piece in the new International Security on the feasibility of an Israeli preventive attack on Iran's nuclear development program. The authors don't advocate a preventive strike, just analyze the potential. Thanks in advance and check it out:

http://burkeanreflections.blogspot.com/2007/05/assessing-israeli-capabilities-for.html

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