1. God bless [Clinton]

    — 

    Karl Rove, on the secretary of state’s success in starting the war in Libya.

    (via Andrew Sullivan)

  2. John Robb on Markets and Warfare

    Our unregulated global marketplace is a fantastic conduit for warfare since it is…

    • extremely complex (nobody understands it, least of all economists),
    • tightly coupled (information travels at the speed, measured in milliseconds, of programmed trading),
    • highly leveraged (perched precariously on a mountain of debt),
    • and vast (two orders of magnitude larger than the global economy, aka add two zeros to the end of any metric of measurement).

    Better than all of the above, in a blindingly fast transition to relativism over the last few decades, the global marketplace is now completely dominated by participants without a moral compass.  These participants are completely free of any internal constraints on behavior and hold wealth as the only true metric of success.  The only constraint on means is:  don’t get caught.

    The rest of his post metions how 21st century economic combat between nation states and global guerillas could unfold.