European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 15 opinion quite a circus regarding Rushdie Knighthood Jay Ambrose for some its Sal Man Rushdie time i said to the tall Man As he and i engaged in our weekly coffees hop Survey of the passing because the British knighted there burning the Union Jack and effigies of Queen Elizabeth ii and one cleric is say ing Rushdie should be i feel for said the tall he had police Protection for what a couple of decades and now he will need it All because he once wrote the satanic which Many muslims found step on some toes in some and it can Cost you your in the people can also get furious at someones free but you dont ordinarily get advice to resort to violence in this Day and i one of the Brit ish officials pointed out that the Monty Python crowd once made a movie poking fun at the life of but that those offended understood the overriding value of being allowed to express no one threatened to grab a said my we ought to resuscitate Monty Python and the flying circus to Lampoon these fanatics who so richly deserve they scream they will kill those intolerant of thereby demonstrating an intolerance that puts Ordi nary intolerance to remember How another Python Monty Python and the holy showed a hero doing the opposite of what he intended go i he sir Lancelot figures he will save this Damsel being forced to marry against her and kills some guards and a Bunch of people in the wedding Only to discover it want the prospective Bride who was against the but the prospective who preferred sing ing pretty i laughed and said in my the old Python show on the bbl was magnificently representative of a certain spirit in our a cheerful zaniness liberated from the forces that would control our every i somewhat but dont get too self congratulatory about How far our civilization has the tall Man there Are still those who would Clamp Down on any View different from their there Are those awful College speech for and the left is absolutely beside itself these Days because of All the conservatives on talk some democrats want to bring Back the rules that required equal time for political which would pretty much kill off Many talk i ran across a report on How the Center for american Progress and free press wants firmer rules again on what stations Are obliged by Law to do and a change of this group has free press As part of its name i that reminds me of How the soviet Union used to Call its totalitarianism democracy on the grounds that True democracy could Only be achieved by talk radio is predominantly conservative because free people vote that Way with their listening the excuse for controls is nonsense in an Era of More information outlets than anytime in the history of the human and worrying about conservatives on radio is absurd when so much of the mainstream Media is dominated by youre of said the tall the left says its True interest is free speech say no the holy grail movie had a Nice exam ple of this kind of when the legendary Black beast of  ate the scholar who was deciphering some kind of message of just where the grail was to be i am not sure i get the i maybe i am stretching things a he except theres this that Channi Muslim protesters Burn a poster of author Salman Rushdie in on most offices and schools were closed Friday in Kashmir to protest Britain awarding a Knighthood to the people who would shut up others Are like that Python beast in maybe keeping us from finding some truth or the other or at least interrupting the in buy i and now for something completely Dif he said As he introduced a new topic and we continued our Jay formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard is a columnist living in Africa command deftly employs two Force approach by Thomas Barnett for years now Ive argued for split Ting americas military into one Force that wins conventional wars and another that focuses on crisis disaster pos conflict stabilization and and counterinsurgency that decisive bifurcation of our forces is currently on display in i dub the War fighting Force the Levia a term borrowed from the 17thcentu by English philosopher Thomas whose Book of the same name described Why mans life was then filled with wars the Lack of an Al powerful entity that enforced global americas convention Al Force constitutes just such a capability in today numerous academic studies document that were currently enduring less conventional warfare per capita than Ever before in human americas role As global Leviathan is the necessary but insufficient cause necessary to Rule out great Power but marginal in comparison to globalization lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty in the last our struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan likewise prove the Leviathan limited utile if everyone is an asymmetrical then no one will fight your in much like Hezbollah versus Israel last August in your opponent re fuses to fight the War and simply Waits for the ensuing where the Levia thans otherwise Superior capabilities Are neutralized by unconventional in doing these entities Force us to Field a Force More specifically suited to these postwar that Force Ive called our system administrator or sysadmin for i employ that information age term be cause this Force is closer in form and function to the emergency response and infrastructure maintenance elements that manage our increasingly Complex extending that capacity to of Grid locations suffering postwar and pos disaster deprivations is particularly difficult be cause Well often face highly inventive opponents hellbent on exploiting that tumult for political so this Force must be Able to enforce not just keep it will require lots of boots on the and to avoid perceptions of american those forces must be drawn overwhelmingly from other especially those currently most involved with globalization Advance such As China and globalization comes with rules but no so this sysadmin Force must skew in directions far different from the Levia than More civilian than More than just the defense More International than simply american and most important More private sector investment than foreign the sysadmin Force must be All about improving the investment enabling enough Security and economic activity to generate the impression of a Low Cost country just waiting to be exploited for its cheap sound crass look at it this Way either we leave the country More connected than we found meaning More Able to Access the global Economy and be exploited by or we condemn it to fur ther rounds of disaster and mass your no country in human history has devel oped without Access to outside so either we connect these disconnected societies or we can simply schedule our Levia thans next visit five years in either we plan to win the peace or theres Little sense in winning the right now in East in the form of the combined joint task Force Horn of Africa we see this bifurcation naturally the task Force itself has no firepower Worth its troops consist primarily of Mili tary medics and civil affairs the task Force has never fired a round in anger since being set up five years embedded alongside this task is Central commands special operations or the Leviathan that coexists uneasily with the that Force will occasionally and with great discretion swoop into the task forces multiple precincts like a swat capturing and killing bad Guys with Imp uni these Are the Guys who shot up South Ern Somalia last looking for a Laidas foreign Cut whoa will serve As a template for americas new Africa Pioneer ing within this sysadmin form new Levels of inter Agency and International co by combining diplomacy and development the so called 3d approach in a synergistic Afri Ca command strives to become everything our occupation of Iraq is Many observers decry this expansion of military in i see our when left to its own devices in this strategic forging the obvious Thomas Barnett is a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee Howard Baker Center and senior managing director of enter a solutions he wrote this column for Scripps Howard news prickly City by Scott Stantis  x see