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Business and the Way of Democracy, By ANDREA BONIME-BLANC and MARK BRZEZINSKI, Published: December 26, 2009
The role that integrity plays in the private sector is similar to the role that democracy plays in the public sector.

Much like transitions to democracy over the past four decades transformed governments from mostly authoritarian to mostly democratic, we are [...]

Bush On His Record, (Wall Street Journal)…Kimberley A. Strassel, Dec 20, 2008, pg.13
As he sits at his mile-high desk, clad in his Air Force One crew jacket, George W. Bush is as he has ever been: upbeat, focused, confident in his past decisions and in the future.

On Iraq …
The action that will always most define [...]

 Moral Surrender To Pyongyang, (Washington Post)…Michael Gerson, Dec 19, 2008
…The negotiations with North Korea were worth a try. But diplomatic engagement does not require moral surrender. And when diplomats such as Christopher Hill are deployed, it does not signify that the adults have arrived. It means that hope is fading.
The argument was simple: In an [...]

Straight-Shooting Jones, (Washington Times)…Georgie Anne Geyer
Our new national security adviser to the president-elect is perhaps best known as the supreme allied commander of NATO from 2003 to 2007, but to me he should be heralded as the supreme survivor of the last eight years. Here’s why: …
We pressed him on Iraq, and we particularly pressed [...]

Additional opinion on the conflict of interest issue.

POST: Compromised general? by Thomas P.M. Barnett on December 5, 2008

ARTICLE: One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex, By DAVID BARSTOW, New York Times, November 29, 2008
I was stunned by the level of reporting on this piece on McCaffrey. The jump section extended across virtually two full pages, which is a [...]

McCaffrey And Rumsfeld , New York Times, December 3, 2008 , Pg. 26

To the Editor:
Re “One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex” (front page, Nov. 30):Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey makes much of his opposition to former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Whatever General McCaffrey or other unnamed individuals may believe, though, I am unaware of any decision to [...]

One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex, (New York Times)…David Barstow, Nov 30, 2008.
…Through seven years of war an exclusive club has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. Its members, mostly retired generals, have had a foot in both camps as influential network military analysts and defense industry rainmakers. It is a deeply [...]