The alleged injured co-analyst[s] might have popped off about this academic injustice, were it to have occurred. What you try to argue is a bit like the theory that no one could have been smart enought to write Shakespeare's plays and so some other genius must have written them, or the other silly theory that they concot is the one impossibly brilliant person is so hard to imagine that the only explanation is the even more unlikely co-existance of two or more impossibly brillian people.
I am afraid the democrat or not, he is the real thing. It takes only a few minutes listening to him to realize that he is the one who thought at least a lot of this up.
Mr. Chips, a Latin teacher in Georgia, noticed this about the book and its origin...
"It says By Thomas P.M. Barnett and Henry H. Gaffney Jr. . . . and I think I saw Gaffney on CSPAN the other day in a "debate" with Gary Hart, and Gaffney was brilliant."
I didn't mean to imply that Barnett was not brilliant, I meant to imply that he may simply be a better organizer or presenter than some of the others in his group. One of the reasons to organize into think tanks is so that thinking can be additive.
"What you try to argue ... " -- Me?!! Argue?! Perish the thought.
"The alleged injured co-analyst[s] might have popped off about this academic injustice, were it to have occurred." -- Well, yes, perhaps, but I would not be surprised to find that Dr. Barnett may have heaped lavish praise in his book for the contributions of his comrades.
I would be surprised to discover that his brilliance outshone that of the combined intellect of his companions, but I suppose it is possible.
And I might even be coerced into the admission that an admitted Democrat could be intelligent, but I won't go that far right now.
I saw most of the presentation, and I was duly impressed. I felt as if someone had given my stool a kick, and spun me around to see the actual objects that were casting those confusing shadows into Plato's cave. It really was illuminating.
I think he is probably even smart enough to pick other smart people to hang around with.
And quite possibly he might be the single entity who proves that Military Intelligence is not always an oxymoron.