his perspectives, knowledge, and insight while there is still time.

I keep thinking of possible opportunities to assemble a small team to engage in various kinds of systems and mind mappings of his orientiation and philisophy.

Plus, getting together a series of convention or meetings of him with other Democratic luminaries, like Gore, Hart, Biden, Clinton, Obama, Richardson, Nunn, and attempting to forge a definitive statement of how our Democratic foriegn policy and national security theories stand in such start contrast to the Bush/Cheney, Neocon visions that McCain appears willing to identify with and advance could  be a great contribution to winning a mandate on taking the country back to a more traditional foreign policy direction.

I'm thinking reccommitting to the Geneva Conventions, closing Guantanamo, renouncing unilateral premptive war as a first resort in favor of Just War theory, and committing to operating once again within the framework of international law and the UN.

Combined with committment to sustainable agricultural, economics, energy, health investments etc.  

Clinton already as start on the Global Inititive project.  And Gore has disnquished himself in Global Warming, international scientific cooperation, and sustainable systems development.

Hart, Richardson, and Biden both have visions that emphasize diplomacy and regional cooperation

Webb, Nunn, Clark, and Zinni could help us nail down the military diminsions.  Gorbechev may even be willing to help.

With a modest effort we could lay out a systemic integration of our national and global security, foreign policy philosopher that would stand out as the clearly superior opposite of this disasterous neocon balderdash we've inflicted on the war this last decade.