September 12, 2003

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  What a crazy, high-speed past couple of days these have been in Martinville.

  
  

   

  
  

  I just got off the phone with my best friend in Houston and a 6-hour talk about among other things, foreign policy and the rinkytinks of strategic analysis. International relations and military strategy are much fun and they remind me of a chess game...or maybe tic-tac-toe...and my friend and I spent quite a bit of time playing out many of the possibilities and their most-likely resultant outcomes.

  
  

   

  
  

  Predicting such things doesn't take a rocket scientist. People are always so predictable. Even the wild-eyed ones have a logical set of likely choices from which they select theirs. At this point the match (in which the U.S. is engaged) is quite winnable in our estimation. I just pray our leaders are savvy enough to see some of the moves that will best position us for the endgame as well as to emerge victorious.

  
  

   

  
  

  There are naturally numerous levels of success depending on our choices during the next couple of years, each one often creating an entirely new subset of options that present potential victories or setbacks. Examples of the many if-than sequences include key items like Taiwan, North Korean Offensives, Iranian Hostilities, Sino-American economic severance, war fatigue, anti-Beijing sentiment throughout rural China, nuclear armed Japan and South Korea, domestic elections, successful Iranian student uprisings and causing sufficient destabilization, domestic military and economic protests and apathy, South Korean anemia, strategic defense, "satellite killers", R&D of satellite-independent Autonomous Guidance Technologies, etc. Each of which plays at a different time depending on which one was played out before the other. Some are givens while some are wild-cards. The timing depends on the variables at play. It is a delicate dance or symphony made up of opposing sections working in perfectly predictable synchronization.

  
  

   

  
  

  It is of course best if we can stay on top of the water, as it were, through all of this. We must try to win every battle no matter how insignificant it may seem. This is most likely best done in the simplest of terms by successfully leading diplomatic, Cultural, economic and military initiatives in proper concert. If done correctly, we can aid in the strategic-political implosion of our current adversaries. Time will tell if we take all of our moves, most, some or none at all. Most likely it will be somewhere in between, but our American Spirit will win the day, I imagine.

  
  

   

  
  

  I am quite hoarse now from our lengthy conversation but it was truly fun. In my view, broad strategy is not created, it is discovered. Opportunities are created when Ideas discover strategies.

  
  

   

  
  

  Blogbat will now come down off of his euphoric state he gets into from such conversations

  
  

   

  
  

  Okay, so sticking to my day job: here's some of what went down today

  
  

   

  
  

  1. Got a Starbuck's Frap

  
  

  2. Let the dog out. (yes, I did it, "woof, woof woof")

  
  

  3. Worked

  
  

  4. Blogged

  
  

  5. Had lunch

  
  

  6. Practiced music

  
  

  7. Drove around town for work-related stuff

  
  

  9.  Chatted with friend from Houston on phone

  
  

  10. Let the dog out. Again. (yes, I did it, "woof, woof woof")

  
  

  11. Started this blog

  
  

  12. Now I'm going to bed. Ode to Joy.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  ...There's more, but why would anyone want to buy honey-mustard flavored ice cream?

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  The daily Poo

  
  

  “Look stimpy! Eeet's Poooooo!”

  
  

  
  

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