The cyclical exchange of ideas by people many miles apart is an amazing feat, isn't it? The fomentation of a semi-concious “group think” is even better especially among such an example of fine minds even if they disagree on occasion.

I didn't realize Fabius had published his fourth installment. Christ, didn't even realize he'd put out a third. Hopefully he tackles the Kurdish element as he asserted he would.

Not at all! Your blog is great, and your recent post on Venezuelian designs on Bolivia [1] fascinating!

Fabius had a good comment on the semi-conscious groupthink of the blogosphere:

“This is a network effect which we will likely see more often: folks operating in the same “community”, in the same news flow, developing the same insights. This happens in all communities, but more frequently in virtual ones. The web allows communities to grow both in size and rate of evolution, so that nobody can follow everything.

I've had this happen to me twice. Another author (a major expert) wrote an article “mirroring” something I had recently written, and later one similar to something I *was* writing. I don’t know which was more frustrating.”

Thanks for your contributions to the tdaxp community!

[1] http://soobdujour.blogspot.com/2007/01/hegemon-just-how-far-does-hugo-chavez.html
[2] http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/2007/01/strategy_wars_l.html#comment-27371585