So I’ll have to think about this, and about the conundrums of tolerance and nested incompatible moral matrices that you raise. I am indeed a Darwinian, and I am indeed sympathetic to both classical liberalism and Burkean conservatism - more so than to modern leftism or 1970s liberalism. I think you’re right to call me on some potential contradictions. And as before, you see things in my work that I was not fully aware of, but which I agree with. “As always, you have done a very close and fair reading of my work. Larry Arnhart continues his careful reading of Jonathan Haidt’s work, to which Haidt, a psychologist venturing into the realms of politics and political philosophy, responds: Video comparison on alluvial fans between Las Vegas and L.A. The Rover is still headed towards Glenelg. Comparison photo from Chile, back on Earth, of what appears to be a similar phenomenon. Rounded rocks smoothed by water and deposited in a cement like structure, which is now jutting above the surface as it lays in a large alluvial fan bed. This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it.”Īpparently, it’s sedimentary conglomerate. This is the first time we’re actually seeing water-transported gravel on Mars. “Plenty of papers have been written about channels on Mars with many different hypotheses about the flows in them.
“From the size of gravels it carried, we can interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep,” said Curiosity science co-investigator William Dietrich of the University of California, Berkeley. The first real ‘direct’ observation of water: Liberal Internationalism is hobbling us, and the safety of even the liberal internationalist doctrine if America doesn’t lead… Via Youtube-Uncommon Knowledge With Fouad Ajami And Charles Hillįrom NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory: ‘NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed On Martian Surface’ Related On This Site: From CSIS: ‘How the US Must Expand and Redefine International Cooperation in Fighting Terrorism’Īnd: Philip Bobbitt Discusses His Book ‘Terror And Consent’ On Bloggingheadsįrom March 27th, 2009 At WhiteHouse.Gov: Remarks By The President On A New Strategy For Afghanistan And Pakistan…įrom Slate: ‘In Aleppo, Syria, Mohamed Atta Thought He Could Build The Ideal Islamic City’ Whether these goals are desireable is relatively less crucial.” “Moreover, the reputation, indeed the political survival, of most leaders depends on their ability to realize their goals, however these may have been arrived at. Bureaucracy becomes an obstacle when what it defines as routine does not address the most significant range of issues or when its prescribed mode of action proves irrelevant to the problem.” If those criteria are met, the energies of the top leadership are freed to deal creatively with the unexpected occurrence or with the need for innovation. A bureaucracy is efficient if the matters which it handles routinely are, in fact, the most frequent and if its procedures are relevant to their solution. “The purpose of bureaucracy is to devise a standard operating procedure which can cope effectively with most problems. Here’s are two quotes from Henry Kissinger: Whatever your stripes, we may be in a different kind of war, but it’s still a war: asymmetrical, a war against insurgents, against people who in the name of Islam are training and targeting us here at home. We’re seeing a rise of Islamism over decades throughout the region. The Iranian government is run by a violent theocracy and the Iranian State sponsors Hizbollah and other terrorist groups. Yemen is a few steps away from chaos, with many Al Qaeda operatives on the ground. The Afpak region is still an inflamed mess, which likely requires some involvement to prevent the Taliban from gaining power again and harboring Al Qaeda more than it is now. They also fear that whether they speak of a global war on terror, a global war on radical Islamist terror, or even a global war against fanatical religious terror groups without specifying the religion they will polarize the world and make the whatever-it-is that much worse.’ They fear that talking too much about the threat would hand propaganda victories to those we would call our enemies if we were calling spades spades. ‘ No doubt all the respectable and enlightened people who are working so hard in the government and the media to prevent public opinion from connecting these dots and drawing the conclusion that the war on terror is still real, still global and still going on have good reasons for doing so. We’re still using our military, security, and intelligence agencies to kill violent groups of people who want to kill us here at home:
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