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2006

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

The Long Game Against Terror

Stewart Brand wrote about the latest in the Long Now Foundation's Seminars on Long Term Thinking:

As "senior communications consultant" to the current administration and every White House and Defense Department leadership since President Carter, John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, has been in the thick of combatting terrorism for decades. In his view, the US needs to deepen its thinking and activities against terror from tactical to strategic--- from short-term reactive to long-term systemic.
 

"Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short," John Rendon, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, 7pm, Friday, July 14. The lecture starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free ($10 donation always welcome, not required).

The Rendon Group specializes in studying public opinion and media activities worldwide, in real time, and in devising appropriate responses. Some media characterize John Rendon as a right-wing information warrior, but it that is not my experience of him, and it belies his background as a campaigner for Michael Dukakis, Jimmy Carter, and John Kerry. What characterizes Rendon to me is that he is exceptionally informed, astute, and engaged. It should be a hell of a talk.
 

The Herbst Theater is at Van Ness and McAllister in the War Memorial Veterans Building, adjoining the San Francisco Civic Center.


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  rektide [07.12.06 02:45 PM]

just a drop, i'm loving the Long Now / Stewart Brand info

  Greg Wilson [07.12.06 02:57 PM]

Those interested in Rendon's talk might also enjoy Peter Beinart's book "The Good Fight", which analyzes why the post-war liberal consensus (America accepts restraints on its power so that other nations will accept that power) worked, and why the alternatives that have been tried since (particularly neo-conservatives' "American exceptionalism") don't. There are interesting analogies with open vs. closed business models...

  Mark Frauenfelder [07.13.06 01:28 PM]

A few months back, Rolling Stone ran an interesting article by James Bamford about Rendon, called

The Man Who Sold the War.

Here's Rendon's reply to the article, and here's
Bamford's reply to Rendon's reply.

  johny dead [08.01.06 11:08 AM]

Jeez, whadda goon this Rendon is, you take advice from him. We are hosed.

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