New American Strategies for Security and Peace

[PBinOregon]

All--

This is an excellent report--might even be the most intelligent view on terrorism I've read thus far:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1031-08.htm

Published on Thursday, October 30, 2003 by CommonDreams.org

The Dialogue on American Progress

by Patrick Doherty

 
In his closing remarks at the New American Strategies for Security and Peace conference hosted by the new Center for American Progress, The American Prospect, and The Century Foundation, Richard Leone, President of the Century Foundation, summed up the progressive challenge: “The truth is, we need to find a new course and we need to be open to it.”

From the start, the conference had to overcome a very fundamental catch-22. The mission of the Center for American Progress is at once to develop a long-term progressive vision, to generate new progressive ideas, to respond to and critique conservative proposals and rhetoric, and to communicate progressive messages to Americans. At the tables and in the breaks, participants often remarked that while the Heritage foundation started with a vision and then developed its communications machine, CAP is leading with the communication machine before it has, self-admittedly, identified the larger, integrated progressive vision. By design, this conference was heavy on critique and sensible policy-level alternatives, but that critique came deliberately from a diverse set of perspectives.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1031-08.htm

Very much worth reading!

[WillyBrandt]

1. Very Good -- WATCH ZB's SPEECH

Watch the whole conference

http://www.newamericanstrategies.org/

But PLEASE watch Zbigniew Breznezski (I know I screwed up the spelling)'s speech. It's the best thing I've heard in a long time.