I was never in support of Bush or this war, clearly an administration in the pocket of big oil and the neo-cons... My great disappointment and lagging question is why did Collin Powell depart from his loyality based military mind set and prevent the deaths of all these brave soldiers and civilians by holding up the Powell doctrine when the war was being pushed by Bush's administration? This mess, the arguements for war, and the aspects of the situation that pointed clearly to the diaster that would occur were clearly predicted by the situations failure to meet any of the doctrine points.
I would normally simply cross this off to the fact that America can't seem to learn anything from history, even our own. However, the fact that Powell developed the doctrine from the learnings of Vietnam when he was chief of staff and was sitting inside the administation as sec of state during the build up to war, DAMN.... It isn't a secret that Rums, Cheney, etc. successfully neutered Powell within the administration, but if there was ever a time for a soldier (or politican) to fall on his sword, this was it!!
I lost great respect for Powell over this and can't believe the Powell Doctrine was never raised as a question during any of the build up to war discussions. Unbelieveable...
If I were a good King, I would first care about the current and future well being of my people and kingdom. Therefore, my metrics for decision making would begin with, "will this expand and improve the quality of my middle class?"
This appears to be at the bottom of your logic as we are experiencing the largest shift of wealth from the middle class to the a very small, super wealthy class and the rest are heading south.
So... 15 years + 25 years = 40 years
But wait, within this time window machines will over take the human mind's processing capability so we will be taking their word for the regulatory impact analysis (and they won't be concerned with the biological impacts), so... subtract 15 years.
Rubbish in the current time, but what about 20 or 50 years from now? Kurzweil's book, "The age of Spiritual Machines" strongely suggests that Moore's Law will lead to exactly this situation and beyond.
If it was rubbish for the Earth to be less than the center of the Universe, and rubbish for the Earth to round, than how long before this rubbish is seen in a different light?
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I was never in support of Bush or this war, clearly an administration in the pocket of big oil and the neo-cons... My great disappointment and lagging question is why did Collin Powell depart from his loyality based military mind set and prevent the deaths of all these brave soldiers and civilians by holding up the Powell doctrine when the war was being pushed by Bush's administration? This mess, the arguements for war, and the aspects of the situation that pointed clearly to the diaster that would occur were clearly predicted by the situations failure to meet any of the doctrine points. I would normally simply cross this off to the fact that America can't seem to learn anything from history, even our own. However, the fact that Powell developed the doctrine from the learnings of Vietnam when he was chief of staff and was sitting inside the administation as sec of state during the build up to war, DAMN.... It isn't a secret that Rums, Cheney, etc. successfully neutered Powell within the administration, but if there was ever a time for a soldier (or politican) to fall on his sword, this was it!! I lost great respect for Powell over this and can't believe the Powell Doctrine was never raised as a question during any of the build up to war discussions. Unbelieveable...
...appears that this condition doesn't stop a significant percentage of the population from voting. So... answer is yes by majority action.
.... There isn't one anymore.
If I were a good King, I would first care about the current and future well being of my people and kingdom. Therefore, my metrics for decision making would begin with, "will this expand and improve the quality of my middle class?" This appears to be at the bottom of your logic as we are experiencing the largest shift of wealth from the middle class to the a very small, super wealthy class and the rest are heading south.
So... 15 years + 25 years = 40 years But wait, within this time window machines will over take the human mind's processing capability so we will be taking their word for the regulatory impact analysis (and they won't be concerned with the biological impacts), so... subtract 15 years.
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Andromeda Strain, Terminal Man, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Timeline, etc. Something of his should be on the list.
Rubbish in the current time, but what about 20 or 50 years from now? Kurzweil's book, "The age of Spiritual Machines" strongely suggests that Moore's Law will lead to exactly this situation and beyond. If it was rubbish for the Earth to be less than the center of the Universe, and rubbish for the Earth to round, than how long before this rubbish is seen in a different light? ts