Just wondering about your thoughts on Anne Marie Slaughter for SecState in a prospective HRC or Obama administration? I’m not aware of her having close ties to either camp, though I am hopeful both are aware of her talents. At least to me, it seems she is well positioned, but the view has far more stakeholders in the academic world of IL and IR, than the world of media punditry.

I think AMS has perhaps closer ties to the Clinton camp, but the Obama camp just has fewer people with ties to it in general, so I think she’d be a candidate for office in either case. I think you could very easily see her as U.N. Ambassador or possibly even SecState in either administration.

I think the responsibility to protect is a promising concept, but it needs to be developed in a responsible manner and not as a means of undermining the existing institutional framework.

Choosing Senators to “promote” to the next Cabinet will be problematic depending upon the party of the governor of their state, who will appoint the Senator’s successor.

This is true. And, conversely, it might make sense to give a job or two to a GOP Senator whose state has a Democratic governor. Olympia Snowe is almost impossible to beat up in Maine, but if Governor Baldacci got a chance to appoint a replacement, that’d become a safe Democratic seat.

Though a messianic sense that one’s ideas are the One True Path is worse — witness our current plight.

To be sure, but these are two sides of the same coin. One needs to recognize, both prospectively and retrospectively, that people are fallible.

So basically they want to be rewarded for spineless behavior? Jesus-on-toast, what a bunch of power-hungry tools.

I wouldn’t put it that way. It’s just that politicians can read the polls and they know that there are basically no endangered Democratic incumbents and a bunch of endangered GOP seats. Politicians aren’t a risk-taking group unless they think it’s necessary.

Just wondering about your thoughts on Anne Marie Slaughter for SecState in a prospective HRC or Obama administration? I’m not aware of her having close ties to either camp, though I am hopeful both are aware of her talents. At least to me, it seems she is well positioned, but the view has far more stakeholders in the academic world of IL and IR, than the world of media punditry.

Also, I would like to know whether you have given much thought to endorsing one of the competing nascent intervention doctrines that exist, even as Iraq has tempered the lustre of all such projects. I’m speaking here about both humanitarian intervention and R2P, the latter of which received the Papal seal of approval just the other day in the speech to the GA.

Cheers,

I’d be interested in what sort of server glitch was observed by others today.

Basically, even with cookies turned on & page refreshed till it smelled of fehbreeze, still I was presented with no way to sign in, and could read none of the comment thread.

In addition, the Header was for BlueAmerica, not FDL, if that provides a clue.

Overwhelming response swamped servers, rather than something more nefarious? Sure hope so. I was far from unhappy though, as I simply went to local PBS and watched/heard Jane do a fabulous job on PBS’s “To the Contrary” http://www.pbs.org/ttc/ Bravo to Jane!

I look fwd to less “traffic” on the toobz tomorrow so I can finally take some time to read what went on here.

which is how to create a healthy relationship between liberalism (not just liberals) and the military.

Hemp uniforms?