Gary Hart's New Book

Check out this revies of The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons by Gary Hart.

Exerpt:

First off, it's just damn exciting to read a book by a Democrat that actually proposes an effective, well thought out, and articulate vision of a national security program. And it's by former Senator Gary Hart, who is perhaps the smartest politician we have interviewed. That this guy is not in an active governmental leadership position is a great loss to the nation.

You know that you are off to a different approach to national security and foreign affairs when Hart entitles his introduction: "The New Three-Dimensional Chess Game." In contrast, the troglodyte Busheviks are so flat world in their thinking that any concept beyond one dimension would simply be incomprehensible to them.

Too bad this guy suffered from "Clintonitis" and was forced out of politics in the 80s.