bfi – canaries – 1 flight up

I don’t think Ms. Maddow will mind too much. Not that there’s all that much traffic on this particular r&d web site.

“Drift” pgs 249-252 “You Built It, You Own It” (1st hardback edition 2012).

“…We could at least start with a to-do list.”

• “…war…should be painful…”
• “…do away with the secret military.”
• (paraphrase) – let the military be the military. let the state department be the state department. let the peace corps be the peace corp.
• (paraphrase) stop abusing guard & reserve members. back to citizen army.
• (paraphrase) cut back or eliminate private contractors in war zones. remaining contractors should be accountable &  (sic) prosecutable.
• (paraphrase) War was never the american ideal of the 1st option. Nor should it be. Don’t forget it. “Peace is the default.”
• (paraphrase) deal rationally & seriously w/our enormous cold-war-centric nuclear stockpile.
• (paraphrase) correct the seriously drifting balance of power between the executive & legislative branches in regards to war powers.