ARTICLE: IMF Gets New Role of Serving the G-20, By BOB DAVIS, Wall Street Journal, OCTOBER 5, 2009
Remember from Blueprint: the A-to-Z rule set for Core cooperation. Two key pillars were the G-20 (not viewed with much respect when I started briefing concept in 2004) and revamped IMF becoming its tool (back then, IMF seen as relatively lost in irrelevancy).
I brief A-to-Z for years and mostly get yawns.
Fast-forward to financial System Perturbation of 2008-09, and look what we have now?
It's like Newsweek being the first major mag to frankly explore the inevitability of Iran getting the bomb.
Except I published that article in Esquire--and my book Blueprint---in the fall of 2005.
Being a good grand strategist means being patient, because eventually your "crazy" ideas become conventional wisdom.
Turns out Barnett isn't the only thinker who wants "to give Iran the bomb!"
Turns out I was the true realist.
But you'll say: "Tom, your A-to-Z was about fixing politically bankrupt states, not economically vulnerable ones."
First, let's stipulate the cross-linkages there.
Second, how did you expect my A-to-Z to evolve first? Do I not always start with economics and move to pol-mil? Why would the world be any different? Point being, this is the logical first iteration evolution: selfishly created for selves, eventually extended to others in order to keep Core stable and shrink Gap.
People ask, "How can you be so patient and optimistic at the same time?"
My answer, "By my expectations, this is all moving incredibly fast!"
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