The United States has failed to produce substantive quality leadership in its Presidential campaigns the past several years. The desire to select race or gender candidates has taken priority over economic and ecospheric management quality. With the form-over-substance criteria the United States has entered a period of comparative economic decline and poor management of protracted wars. We not only liked Ike, the nation experienced general prosperity. Dwight D. Eisenhower had integrity and credibility.
Former four-star Army General McKiernan is a where-are-they-now kind of leader with advanced degrees from Stanford, Harvard (we don't hold that against him) and elsewhere. McKiernan is the kind of Republican candidate that no longer stands for office, yet the Republican party certainly could use a few like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._McKiernan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/pages/homepage
There seems to be little prospect for a Ralph Nader with military experience and an advanced degree in environmental economics. The build-up of large public debt, outsourcing of production, perennial high unemployment, decline of the environment and so forth are simply the line-up for the way things are.
The war in Afghanistan seemed to be a consequence of the bureaucratic inertia of the Eastern elite organizational intertia in which there was no good leadership. Afghanistan has a zillion valleys and locals that fight rival valley tribes and foreigners. We should have done better by just being a supplier of goods, economic ideas and support and military equipment for locals seeking autonomy instead of seeking to foist a large central government on those people that disdain such entities. Our Syria policy might actually have worked in Afghanistan. In Syria we seek to disestablish a central government authority through support of a zillion militias while in Afghanistan we seek to fight Afghanis accustomed to local autonomy and force them into submission to a modern, centralized state bureaucracy. After 2014 that entire structure may collapse like a phase transition to a more stable, lower energy level.
One wonders if the nation can even consider electing a Presidential candidate without a Hollywood shine and pooffiness of character acceptable to the Gay-Lesbian-Transgendered-Neutered-Bisexual foundation of the Democrat party today, or one that isn't simply sold out to global corporatism?
Former four-star Army General McKiernan is a where-are-they-now kind of leader with advanced degrees from Stanford, Harvard (we don't hold that against him) and elsewhere. McKiernan is the kind of Republican candidate that no longer stands for office, yet the Republican party certainly could use a few like that.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._McKiernan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/pages/homepage
There seems to be little prospect for a Ralph Nader with military experience and an advanced degree in environmental economics. The build-up of large public debt, outsourcing of production, perennial high unemployment, decline of the environment and so forth are simply the line-up for the way things are.
The war in Afghanistan seemed to be a consequence of the bureaucratic inertia of the Eastern elite organizational intertia in which there was no good leadership. Afghanistan has a zillion valleys and locals that fight rival valley tribes and foreigners. We should have done better by just being a supplier of goods, economic ideas and support and military equipment for locals seeking autonomy instead of seeking to foist a large central government on those people that disdain such entities. Our Syria policy might actually have worked in Afghanistan. In Syria we seek to disestablish a central government authority through support of a zillion militias while in Afghanistan we seek to fight Afghanis accustomed to local autonomy and force them into submission to a modern, centralized state bureaucracy. After 2014 that entire structure may collapse like a phase transition to a more stable, lower energy level.
One wonders if the nation can even consider electing a Presidential candidate without a Hollywood shine and pooffiness of character acceptable to the Gay-Lesbian-Transgendered-Neutered-Bisexual foundation of the Democrat party today, or one that isn't simply sold out to global corporatism?
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