General.

In the annals of generals commenting on American society, I would say that this take by McChrystal is pretty good. It's short, of course, but it takes a look at the odd need to look at leaders who define us. I do wish he went into specifics. And though I do agree with having people serve the community (he notes there are many ways to serve one's country. I agree) and I think that the New Green Deal will help with that, I sense that some more specifics would be better.



Also this piece in the Times seems somewhat level headed in that it looks at our stay in Afghanistan. Something we all need to look at. 2 trillion so far, by some estimates. I would say that we could have achieved more doing anything else than what we're doing or did. Lack of imagination, I suppose. The article claims that if we hadn't focused on Iraq we would have been better off.

That's a big if. I think we need to get our house in order before we look to get other people's houses in order. Many I've talked to mention how it was wrong from the get go. Were we ever going to build something there? What lessons to be learned from Afghanistan? Perhaps the post USSR-pullout should have been managed better.

What's clear now is other countries have interests and we should let them pull the weight.


Also, it appears that you can now access a bunch of new books . 
Project Gutenberg seems like a good place to do so.



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