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4/17/25 National Security News and Commentary

1 week ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Stanley McChrystal |James Stavridis |James Mann |Eve Sampson

Quotes of the Day:“For, as Kissinger wrote in A World Restored, “the most fundamental problem of politics… is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.”[ 29] It is self-righteousness that lies at the heart of the worst tyrannies: the belief that your opponents can be destroyed because they are in your eyes fundamentally illegitimate. This is what the vast anarchy across the whole of Russia finally wrought.
Henry Kissinger’s Final Monumental Request

Nov 5, 2024 | yahoo.com | James Mann |Hailey Fuchs

Henry Kissinger was known for his monumental ego. And at the end of his life he asked for … an actual monument. In his will, the former secretary of state, who died last year at the age of 100, requested a “monument” in his memory be erected in Arlington National Cemetery to mark the site where he is buried.
Henry Kissinger Requested a Monument in Arlington National Cemetery. He Won’t Get One.

Nov 5, 2024 | flipboard.com | James Mann

The Celts are in Champions League action tonight – but the eyes of the world will be on America as it chooses its next President…Politics and Celtic …
Henry Kissinger’s Final Monumental Request

Nov 5, 2024 | flipboard.com | James Mann

The Celts are in Champions League action tonight – but the eyes of the world will be on America as it chooses its next President…Politics and Celtic …
Five of the Best U.S. Political Biographies

Sep 24, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Walter Isaacson |Donald Rumsfeld |William P. Barr |James Mann

Thank you for this list of political biographies from the United States. What do you look for in biography? Are you seeking to understand the bigger picture in the U.S.—a historical period or a governmental body via an individual’s story—or should a biography be more of a character study? It’s definitely both. You can learn a lot about history through biography. For example, one of the books on my list is Donald Rumsfeld’s autobiography. He started in politics during the Eisenhower era.
Opinion: Three reasons China would be happier with Trump than Biden

Mar 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | James Mann

The month after former President Trump left office in 2021, Matt Pottinger, who had been the point man for China on Trump’s National Security Council, told me in an interview that had Trump stayed on for a second term, he might have moved to a “wholesale decoupling” of the U.S. economy from China.
What the Henry Kissinger Obituaries Got Wrong

Dec 6, 2023 | politico.com | James Mann

So let’s set the record straight. The opening to China was not Kissinger’s initiative. The driving force behind the decision to reestablish diplomatic relations with Beijing wasn’t Kissinger; it was President Richard Nixon. In fact, Kissinger was at first astonished by the idea and even snide about it.
The Six Myths Kissinger Created About Himself - That Everyone Fell For

Dec 6, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | James Mann

The outpouring of obituaries for Henry Kissinger by and large have fallen into two categories. First, there are the Great Man elite-columnist obits, some of which recount the writers’ personal relationships with Kissinger. Second, there are the evildoer obits, retelling, usually accurately, Kissinger’s misdeeds, from Cambodia to Chile to the Indian subcontinent.
Retail trends may limit mall redevelopment options

Feb 28, 2023 | rblandmark.com | James Mann

There is no doubt that the North Riverside Mall faces many challenges from the reduction of the number of potential major retail anchors, a reduction of smaller chain stores attracted to malls and, mall vs. internet shopping. First signs occurred in the original Hillside Mall which is now a site for a single business — CarMax. More recently, the Yorktown Mall has seen the effects of a decline in mall shopping.