PublicOrgTheory

Alas, I haven’t read nor written on blogs as my current milieu enters its final throes.  This Slate piece on McCain’s and Obama’s approach to foreign policy, though, is worth a read:

So what’s the problem? It’s not, as some critics claim, that democracies often disagree with one another, or that Washington has to work with autocracies, too. Had this proposal surfaced at the beginning of Bush’s tenure rather than at its end, such objections would have mattered far less than they do today. In fact, other governments would probably have suppressed their reservations and joined. Grumblers and doubters alike would have expected the United States to make the new organization count—and they would not have wanted to be left out.

I don’t often hear orgheads talk about power, but when they do, it’s usually illuminating.