2:49AM
The blogger quoted
Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 2:49AM Read section in book, The New American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive As Other Powers Rise, by Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen (Simon & Shuster, 2008), and thought, "Man, I wish I had come up with that funny title!" Then checked the endnotes and realized I had.
The para (p. 219) in full:
In the world of print punditry too, we are inclined to see articles like Robert Kaplan's cover story in the Atlantic Monthly, "How We Would Fight China," than "How One Day China and the U.S. Might Clash Over Taiwan, But How Neither of Them Wants To and Since Both Have Nuclear Weapons and Are Very Interdependent, A Violent Clash is Unlikely and Self-Defeating." As blogger Thomas Barnett sees it, "Without journalists like Kaplan, Americans might fear the world less, and if Americans feared the world less, who would read Bob Kaplan?"
The first sentence cites my "Kaplan's Strategic Lap Dance for the U.S. Navy and Pacific Command," Newsletter from Thomas P.M. Barnett, 16 May 2005. The second sentence does the same.
Alas, I have been demoted to mere blogger--another virtual asshole with an opinion.
Reader Comments (9)
That makes a great tagline forany blog!
I might just steal that.
It has worked for me.
Your results may vary!