The General and the Secretary
Now you'd think that a title like that would lead to something salacious, or at least the remake of the classic, The Barbarian and the Geisha.
If only it were so.
Juan Cole and I occasionally correspond. One subject of our correspondence(s) was a "blogger con-call" that Wes Clark set up, and a set of op-ed pieces he wrote, now mostly behind pay-bars.
I may as well use this post as the link to the past -- YACC1, and this -- The Wes Clark Show, which I wrote directly after the con-call in question, and the subsequent back-channel chit-chat entre-bloggeurs Cole et moi.
Yesterday Condi said this:
You can't have in a democracy various groups with arms - you have to have the state with a monopoly on power.
Its great that Rice is today where any Democrat was a full year ago, but that particular Democrat wasn't any place particularly useful then, and hasn't really come up for air since, or showed a whole lot of fin in the shallow end of the pool.
So how are the puppets supposed to obtain a monopoly on violence? How are they supposed to obtain the initiative?
Ms. Rice? Mr. Clark? Your answers please.