...I'll post links to the latest in his series as Mead makes them available.

Walter Russell Mead: Beyond Blue Part 3 - The Power of Infostructure.

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An extinct human species has had their entire genome sequenced.

Physorg: Denisovan genome sequenced.

The genome represents the first high-coverage, complete genome sequence of an archaic human group - a leap in the study of extinct forms of humans. "We hope that biologists will be able to use this genome to discover genetic changes that were important for the development of modern human culture and technology, and enabled modern humans to leave Africa and rapidly spread around the world, starting around 100,000 years ago” says Pääbo. The genome is also expected to reveal new aspects of the history of Denisovans and Neandertals [sic].

...science marches onward.

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We're being lied to by the Obama administration about what has been, and is, going on in Afghanistan.

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis: Truth, Lies, and Afghanistan.

When it comes to deciding what matters are worth plunging our nation into war and which are not, our senior leaders owe it to the nation and to the uniformed members to be candid — graphically, if necessary — in telling them what's at stake and how expensive potential success is likely to be. U.S. citizens and their elected representatives can decide if the risk to blood and treasure is worth it.

Likewise when having to decide whether to continue a war, alter its aims or to close off a campaign that cannot be won at an acceptable price, our senior leaders have an obligation to tell Congress and American people the unvarnished truth and let the people decide what course of action to choose. That is the very essence of civilian control of the military. The American people deserve better than what they've gotten from their senior uniformed leaders over the last number of years. Simply telling the truth would be a good start.

This is ...disturbing. Extremely disturbing. This is a repeat of the utter crap that we saw when the Vietnam war was politicized.

Soldiers are dying because of political "calculations". This is totally unacceptable.

More at Breitbart News: US Paints False Picture of Afghan War.

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...I'll post links to the latest in his series as Mead makes them available.

Walter Russell Mead: Beyond Blue Part 2 - Recasting the Dream.

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...I'll post links to the latest in his series as Mead makes them available.

Walter Russell Mead: Beyond Blue Part 1 - The Crisis of the American Dream.

I'll seldom comment on this series by Walter Russell Mead anymore. It's here as a placeholder, and should be at the top of your reading list whenever there's a new installment.

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