The executive function to set up the SysAdmin response
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 9:54AM ARTICLE: “G-8 Nations Shape Plan to Fight Diseases: Goal Is Getting Drug Makers to Generate Vaccines Against Illnesses in Developing World,” by Michael M. Phillips, Wall Street Journal 13 February 2006, p. A68.
Just another interesting example of how the G-8 is naturally becoming the Functioning Executive of the Core. It’s where all the key decisions are being made--not the archaic UN Security Council, which is banging-your-shoe-on-the-conference-table antique in comparison.
Why the hell would anyone expect the G-8 to be promoting a Core-wide response to infectious diseases. The G-8 is the “everything else” forum that’s already vastly overshadowed the allegedly central “security” forum of the UNSC. That’s the nature of global stability today: probably 80% everything else, and only about 20% kinetic.
Reader Comments (3)
What part of the UN, exactly, *isn't* "banging-your-shoe-on-the-conference-table antique". Really, I'd like to know. You can't beat something with nothing but I believe there's a really low bar for the supplanting of most of the UN and the parts of the UN that actually work can and should be extricated from the rest of the rotten mess. Some of the suborganizations are in the UN only as a convenience (like the ITU which predates the League of Nations and has already done one transfer for just this reason that the parent organization is moribund).
The risk here is not inviting/including the private sector in this effort. As you've said in other posts and in your books, that's where the money is. The government role needs to be where it can bring the best result to support the private sector direct foreign investment (or private aid). If it turns into an all-government team, it will become as useless as the UN has.
USA unit is SysAdmin on second tour.
Army is SysAdmin in:
U.S. unit masters art of counterinsurgency Regiment praised for tactics against fighters, treatment of detainees:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11376551/page/1/
Looks like at least one leader (Col. H. R. McMaster) figured it out on his own.