Stay Home, America; Get Your Own House in Order


I've been extremely busy for months with The Wisdom Project 1, including long hours on the new book 2. There's a lot I've wanted to post, and probably should have, but "eight days a week" still remains in the la la land of Beatles lore. So it saves me a lot of time when someone else not only says something I've wanted to say but says it better that I could have said it. There's real wisdom packed into this this short piece in Time about US foreign policy by Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

And, interestingly, on the page next to the Haass editorial, is an editorial by Fareed Zakaria 3, arguing why U.S. intervention in Syria to mitigate the carnage is flawed. Implication: don't go there.  Whether it was meant as a companion piece to the Haass editorial, I don't know.

As always, let's talk about this.
Links:
  1. http://www.charlesstrohmer.com/the-wisdom-project/
  2. http://www.charlesstrohmer.com/the-wisdom-project/ wisdom-or-war/
  3. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0, 9171, 2142505, 00.html
Post date: 2013-05-07 21:22:57
Post date GMT: 2013-05-08 01:22:57