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Here is column #3 in the Sunday column series in the Knoxville News Sentinel. As I noted earlier last week, I really wanted to do something more intimate and conversational this time without straying too much from my expected subject matter. This way, I slowly but surely introduce myself as someone who can write global affairs and national security, but likewise use that content as a prism for more down-to-earth and personal observations, connecting the macro to the micro.
And here I'm very happy with the outcome:
Reflections: I miss Lady Liberty
By THOMAS P.M. BARNETT, tom@thomaspmbarnett.com
March 12, 2006
I've worked in national security since the end of the Cold War, and I've got to say: I miss the old Statue of Liberty.
You know her, the one that used to welcome "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." That's the monument I grew up with, and she symbolized America's open door.
Old Lady Liberty's got a new job now representing national fear, and it saddens me deeply to see her image perverted that way...
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I look into my Chinese daughter's bright eyes as she saunters past this morning and I suspect I have a column there...
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