As if Zbigniew Brzezinski were not enough, calling for a bipartisan foreign policy predicated on American failure in Iraq ahead of time, and on the success of general anti-Americanism, in a time when the EU, Russia, China, Japan, India and Brazil would rather be like America than like the old Iraq, Iran, or North Korea, -- in structure, values and systems, (not just in size, power and wealth), -- we have Marguerite Hampton asking for far more than bipartisan policies:

Marguerite rightly wants reform of practices that may prove fatal to all life on earth; she rightly recognizes the power of money in global markets and domestic politics.

But she does not focus at all on how to harness the power of money through democratic governments, -- and how to defeat nihilists and tyrants who run amok, with the ability to employ WMD's against police and any neighborhood they chose to make hostage to their madness.

The Berlin, Rome, Tokyo axis of the late 1930's, destroyed at the cost of 50 million lives within six years of its attack on Poland and bid to take over the world, was the last time we faced anything like the the war that began with the attack on the Twin Towers.

A great many people still want to treat that attack as something that never happened:  they want to see WMD's in the hands of terror networks, cults and individuals actually explode, before they take responsibility for preventing such attacks.

Still others want wholesale change only -- they see no point to steady progress in reform that would accomplish the financial miracle that built the arsenal of democracy from 1941 to 1946 -- copied today to build an arsenal for peace and the abundance Marguerite mentions:

Rather, they see coming "perfect storms" -- that will defeat all human progress because people "fail to cooperate" today.  People fail to cooperate, they say, and the "money-power" rules. 

Well, dear Marguerite, do we here on this list really cooperate with each other?   It does not take the money power to make people like you and me disagreeable!  No one has to "invest" a dime to make ordinary people incapable of agreeing on anything at all.   Perfect storms are rare.  Until doomsday arrives, we ought to assume it won't.

And if the money power rules, is there not a lesson for us to learn?

Is it not possible that too much text prevents the very communication we need to have -- if we would harness the money power?

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