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	<title>Comments on: A sorely needed map of Iraq as an adaptive landscape</title>
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		<title>By: joe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you suck
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		<title>By: llewelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Insightful and appropriate mental model. However I have a few minor whines:

First, you left out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_Trench&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marianas Trench&lt;/a&gt;-sized chasm Bush and Co are proudly marching into.

Second, I&#039;m finding it very hard to read nothing into your decision to place &#039;Free society&#039; and &#039;Democracy&#039; at opposite corners of your map. Probably you just wanted them both on there, and didn&#039;t realize what the distance might imply to some.

Finally, I do not believe political stability plays a significant role in the fitness functions used by Bush and Co. Their fitness functions (note, they don&#039;t seem to act as if they all used a common fitness function) appear to range from &#039;Patriotic War to Manipulate and Deceive America&#039; (Karl Rove) to &#039;source of lucrative government contracts&#039; (Kellog Brown &amp; Root) to &#039;Beachhead for Iran Invasion&#039; (Rumsfield &amp; Wolfowitz) to &#039;One-Up Daddy&#039; (G. W. Bush) .
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insightful and appropriate mental model. However I have a few minor whines:</p>
<p>First, you left out the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianas_Trench" rel="nofollow">Marianas Trench</a>-sized chasm Bush and Co are proudly marching into.</p>
<p>Second, I&#8217;m finding it very hard to read nothing into your decision to place &#8216;Free society&#8217; and &#8216;Democracy&#8217; at opposite corners of your map. Probably you just wanted them both on there, and didn&#8217;t realize what the distance might imply to some.</p>
<p>Finally, I do not believe political stability plays a significant role in the fitness functions used by Bush and Co. Their fitness functions (note, they don&#8217;t seem to act as if they all used a common fitness function) appear to range from &#8216;Patriotic War to Manipulate and Deceive America&#8217; (Karl Rove) to &#8217;source of lucrative government contracts&#8217; (Kellog Brown &amp; Root) to &#8216;Beachhead for Iran Invasion&#8217; (Rumsfield &amp; Wolfowitz) to &#8216;One-Up Daddy&#8217; (G. W. Bush) .</p>
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