Looking Beyond the DJIA....

The DJIA is not the best indicator of the financial crisis according to this article. The TED Spread to which the article refers to is here.

Kissinger and Foreign Policy

While reading the book, Henry Kissinger and the American Century, by Jeremi Suri, for a book review of one of my classes, I came across a very interesting quote by Henry Kissinger, that really fits well in today's foreign policy debate and the upcoming elections. Kissinger states, "Whenever peace---considered as the avoidance of war---becomes the only objective of a power or group of powers, the international system is at the mercy of its most ruthless member."