Comments on: On the ‘bombs and rockets’ side of IR http://www.sindark.com/2005/12/27/on-the-bombs-and-rockets-side-of-ir/ dispatches from Canada's capital Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:47:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Milan http://www.sindark.com/2005/12/27/on-the-bombs-and-rockets-side-of-ir/#comment-775 Milan Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:14:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=158#comment-775 Not a question I am up for crossing swords over right now. If anyone does go to this briefing, I would very much appreciate some kind of summary. Even better, scanned notes. Not a question I am up for crossing swords over right now.

If anyone does go to this briefing, I would very much appreciate some kind of summary. Even better, scanned notes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sindark.com/2005/12/27/on-the-bombs-and-rockets-side-of-ir/#comment-774 Anonymous Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=158#comment-774 Which bits of politics count as "fiddly and "theoretical?" -A political theorist Which bits of politics count as “fiddly and “theoretical?”

-A political theorist

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sindark.com/2005/12/27/on-the-bombs-and-rockets-side-of-ir/#comment-773 Anonymous Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:18:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=158#comment-773 Erm, B? That quote obviously applies rather better to warriors than to politicians. Erm, B? That quote obviously applies rather better to warriors than to politicians.

]]> By: B http://www.sindark.com/2005/12/27/on-the-bombs-and-rockets-side-of-ir/#comment-772 B Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:52:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=158#comment-772 To quote Eugene McCarthy: being a politician is like being a football coach, "you have to be smart enough to know the game and dumb enough to think it's important." Just as you and Meghan once agreed that you would be a bad diplomat, it's clear that you would be a bad politician as well. You have the very opposite of the populist impulse. Scientists and warriors, I think, are much more your kind of people. To quote Eugene McCarthy: being a politician is like being a football coach, “you have to be smart enough to know the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.”

Just as you and Meghan once agreed that you would be a bad diplomat, it’s clear that you would be a bad politician as well. You have the very opposite of the populist impulse. Scientists and warriors, I think, are much more your kind of people.

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