Articles Written by Jim Silvester From Isnare.com http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Jim+Silvester American Corporatism At Its Best Politics Jim Silvester Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=179137&ca=Politics Robert Redford and James Caan were right on the money. Back in 1975 my fiancée prodded me to see two movies. Little did I know back then these two cinema releases were very foretelling about our nation’s future. In Three Days Of The Condor, Robert Redford, played a maverick CIA technician on the de... Real Conservative Don’t Drink Lattes, Or Do They? Politics Jim Silvester Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=179143&ca=Politics If Barry Goldwater were alive today to witness the new transformation of the GOP, he would grow a beard and become a bead vendor on Constitution Avenue in Washington. While in Indianapolis recently this author noted numerous well dressed business people standing in line waiting to buy coffee. Mostly... Asymmetric Warfare And Apple Pie Politics Jim Silvester Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=179147&ca=Politics Asymmetric warfare is as alien to average 21st century Americans as the Martian landscape. Yet it is a term more readily heard in the media nowadays promulgated by the nation’s defense planners and used quite frequently in reference to the war on terrorism. Asymmetric warfare is simply the applicat... The Nuclear Option And The 4th Crusade Politics Jim Silvester Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=179149&ca=Politics “American nuclear forces on global alert” is what CBS dished out as this author awoke on that chilly October morning in 1973 while attending Madison College in Virginia. This was Nixon’s response to Brezhnev’s announcing the potential deployment of Soviet airborne troops into the midst of the Yom Ki... China Is Really Number Two Politics Jim Silvester Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=173711&ca=Politics China's coming on strong while our leaders chase the terrorists across the globe. Recently much international press fanfare was generated acknowledging that China had replaced Great Britain as the world's fourth largest economy. Nobody argues nowadays that China has the highest growth rate of indust...