Review Center of Thomas PM Barnett's The Pentagon's New Map Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating : tdaxp

Tuesday, November 08, 20051131499500

A Future Worth Creating?

I'd been following this book for a while, celebrating his return to new blogs in February and congratulating TPMB on the first draft cover in March

While hyper-luminaries like Mark Safranski are able to encapsulate BFA's big ideas into well written posts, I'm not that able.

So instead I will try to write several vignettes or mini-reviews, focusing on distinct aspects of his work. In tone these will be similar to Curzon's critique of Barnett's Taiwan policy, examining the trees and leaving the forest (for now) to the best

Without further ado...

Additionally, my series Embracing Defeat examines the themes of Blueprint for Action by using videographs of a recent speech by Dr. Barnett

Part I, Barnett's Two Strategies describes the Reverse Domino Theory and the A-Z Rule-Set for Processing Politically Bankrupt States

Part II, Blood and Will discusses the inability of the American people to sustain nationbuilding by themselves

Part III, The Born Gimp explains why Barnett's A-Z Rule-Set for Processing Politically Bankrupt States hobbles our export of security

Part IV, Embracing Victory shows how the military-industrial complex can be used to create a better world

Let me pull a trick from the tdaxp magic hat and offer a skimming critique at my blog: 9/11 and Globalism @

http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2005/11/911_and_globali.php

Posted by: Curtis Gale Weeks | Tuesday, November 08, 2005

I'm shocked, shocked, shocked at implied allegations of tdaxpian self-promotion! Such a thing is impossible!

Tom and I would have never risen this high together (http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/10/30/barnett-and-tdaxp-19-together.html) if such a monstrous thing were true! ;-)

/irony

:-)

Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Tuesday, November 08, 2005