Photos

Added a few photos to my Flickr account, mostly from our trip a couple weeks back to the Delaware seashore:
* Self-portrait, Fenwick Beach State Park, DE
* Donna, Fenwick Beach State Park, DE
* WWII submarine observation tower. We passed a number of these as we drove from Fenwick Island to Bethany Beach, they're marked as historical landmarks now.
* Delaware Seashore State Park. We passed by this as we drove from Fenwick Island to Bethany Beach.
* Entrance to St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington DC.
* Interior of St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington DC.

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from http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html

People who believe greater equality among nations would be preferable to the present American predominance often succumb to a basic logical fallacy. They believe the order the world enjoys today exists independently of American power. They imagine that in a world where American power was diminished, the aspects of international order that they like would remain in place. But that ’s not the way it works. International order does not rest on ideas and institutions. It is shaped by configurations of power. The international order we know today reflects the distribution of power in the world since World War ii, and especially since the end of the Cold War. A different configuration of power, a multipolar world in which the poles were Russia, China, the United States, India, and Europe, would produce its own kind of order, with different rules and norms reflecting the interests of the powerful states that would have a hand in shaping it. Would that international order be an improvement? Perhaps for Beijing and Moscow it would. But it is doubtful that it would suit the tastes of enlightenment liberals in the United States and Europe.