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That Guyer Again
Brandon Guyer walked, singled, doubled, crushed a three-run homer, scored two runs, and stole a base, Ryan Flaherty doubled, tripled, and walked, drove-in three runs, and scored three more, Brett Jackson reached base three times, scored all three times he reached, and knocked-in two runs, and D. J. LeMahieu ripped a two-run triple, leading the Cubs to a 12-8 victory over the Giants in AZ Instructional League action at breezy Fitch Park Field #3 in Mesa this afternoon.
20-year old Korean RHP Dae-Eun Rhee (July 2008 TJS rehab) got the start for the Cubs today, and surrendered three runs in the top of the 1st inning. The lead-off hitter grounded a single through the box on an 0-2 pitch, and then the #2 hitter reached base on a bunt single and the #3 hitter walked on four pitches to load the bases with no outs. One run scored on a FC grounder, another on a sacrifice fly, and the third on a two-out RBI double.
The Cubs came roaring back in the bottom of the 1st, however, as Logan Watkins tripled to right, and scored on a Ryan Flaherty RBI double that just missed clearing the fence in left. 2009 1st round pick Brett Jackson (Cal) also doubled off the left-field fence, driving-in Flaherty, and then Brandon Guyer walked. After Kyler Burke struck out and Rebel Ridling flied out, D. J. LeMahieu (2009 2nd round pick out of LSU) smoked a triple off the CF fence, plating Jackson and Guyer, and giving the Cubs a 4-3 lead after one inning of play.
But the Giants came right back in the top of the 2nd, scoring two more runs off Rhee. The first two batters reached base on a line single to LF and a HBP, and both runners moved up on a Wild Pitch. Rhee struck out the next hitter, but then one run scored on an infield ground out, and another on a two-out RBI single.
The Cubs tied the game 5-5 in the bottom of the 3rd, as Brett Jackson walked and Brandon Guyer singled with one out, and then both runners move up a base on a double-steal. Kyler Burke then hit a sac-fly to CF, driving-in Jackson from 3rd.
The Giants threatened to take the lead back in the top of the 4th, as Trey McNutt (2009 32nd round pick out of Shelton State CC) surrendered three consecutive singles with two outs, but Kyler Burke (who has one of the top two outfield arms in the organization) made a pinpoint throw home to nail the runner trying score from 2nd base, as beefy catcher Sergio Burruel (2009 19th round pick out of Trevor Browne HS - Phoenix, AZ) blocked the plate so that nothing or nobody could get by.
The Cubs took the lead 6-5 in the bottom of the 6th, as Ridling lined a lead-off double into the RF corner. LeMahieu did a great job of situational hitting inside-outing a pitch down the 1st base line to advance Ridling to 3rd with just one out. PH Matt Cerda popped out to short CF, but then Burruel reached out on an 0-2 pitch and flicked the ball into short-center, scoring Ridling with the go-ahead run.
Unfortunately for the Cubs, the Giants came right back in the top of the 8th, as Chris Dominguez (Giants 2009 3rd round pick out of U. of Louisville, the 2008 Cape Cod League and 2009 Big East Conference HR champ) cracked a tape-measure two-run homer over the LF fence off Cubs reliever Hector Mayora with one out, giving the Giants a 7-6 lead. (Mayora is a 20-year old Venezuelan in his second year with the Cubs, and he was the only member of the two Cubs DSL teams to get an invitation to AZ Instructs this year).
Not to be denied, the Cubs offense got going again in the bottom of the 8th, as Ryan Flaherty led-off with a walk, and Brett Jackson reached base when the pitcher made an errant throw to 1st base on a sac-bunt attempt. Guyer then did some roofing work on a house across the street, blasting his game-winning three-run dinger.
The Cubs pitchers are still here, but at least a half-dozen of the position players have gone home, so those who remain should get more regular playing time in games than was the case the first three weeks of Instructs.
Also, catcher Matt Williams (Cubs 2009 18th round pick out of Duke) has retired to pursue a career in the Real World. The 22-year old Williams hit a paltry 203/264/241 (combined) at AZL Cubs (Mesa) and Boise in 2009, while throwing out just 11% of opposing base-stealers. He probably realized he was not in the Cubs long-term plans when he was not invited to Instructs.
Here is today's abridged box score (Cubs players only):
1a. Logan Watkins, 2B-DH: 1-4 (3B, K, K, L-3), R
1b. Justin Bour, PH: 0-0 (BB), R
2. Ryan Flaherty, 3B: 2-4 (2B, 1-3, K, BB, 3B), 3 R, 3 RBI
3. Brett Jackson, LF: 1-3 (2B, BB, P-8, SH+E1, 4-3), 3 R, 2 RBI, SB
4. Brandon Guyer, CF: 3-4 (BB, 1B, K, HR, 2B), 2 R, 3 RBI, SB
5. Kyler Burke, RF: 0-3 (K, F-8 SF, 3-1, BB, K), RBI
6. Rebel Ridling, 1B: 1-4 (F-8, K, 2B, K), R
7. D. J. LeMahieu, SS: 1-4 (3B, 6-3, 1-3, 4-3), 2 RBI
8a. Richard Jones, DH #1: 0-2 (K, F-7)
8b. Matt Cerda, PH-2B: 0-2 (P-8, 4-3)
9. Sergio Burruel, C-DH: 1-4 (K, K, 1B, 4-3), RBI
10. Brandon May, DH-C: 1-3 (P-3, K, BB, 1B), R
1. Dae-Eun Rhee - 3.0 IP, 5 H, 5 R (5 ER), 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP, 5/1 GO/FO, 48 pitches (31 strikes)
2. Trey McNutt - 2.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 5/0 GO/FO, 29 pitches (20 strikes)
3. Austin Kirk - 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 GIDP, 3/2 GO/FO, 20 pitches (9 strikes)
4. Hector Mayora - 1.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R (2 ER), 2 BB, 0 K, 1 HR, 1/1 GO/FO, 23 pitches (12 strikes)
5. Julio Pena - 1.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 1/1 GO/FO, 12 pitches (7 strikes)
Sergio Burruel - 0-1 CS
Brandon May - 1-1 CS
Kyler Burke - gunned down runner (9-2) trying to score from 2nd base on a two-out single to RF in the top of the 4th.
WEATHER: 80's, partly cloudy, and VERY breezy
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Az Phil: I get a feeling the Cubs have some really nice hitters in the pipeline from your reports. I don't get that feeling about the pitchers though.
Can you run through your top 3 pitching prospects of the group that is pitching down there in the instructs, including projections as to what they need to develop into big league pitchers?
Anyone with a really high ceiling that I'm not really getting a feeling for (say compared to the likes of Jay Jackson or Andrew Cashner)?
Has the hitting been that much better than the pitching or is it just the bright Arizona sky that's helping the offense?
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Whats the scoop on Vince Perkins -- will the Cubs bring him back? He had a decent year at Triple A, but his control is not great.
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Also does Rafael Dolis make it into the top prospects (at Instructs) conversation. He'll be 22 in January and had a solid year primarily as a starter at Class Hi-A Daytona
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With Luis Montanez being the most glaring example, I have always looked at AFL success as something all good players have and many not-so-good players have as well. Does the quality of the league fluctuate much from year-to-year? I assume some years the pitching or hitting is better than others and so the stats would be more more impressive one way or the other. How would you rate things this season?
Good news
Giants might approve a Rowand/Bradley trade
But for what it's worth, I asked someone on the Giants' side — someone with veto power — whether he'd approve a straight-up Bradley-for-Rowand deal. And he said yeah, he would.
of course Rowand's owed $15M more than Bradley...
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That's a decent starting point and/or last resort. The Cubs will get a better offer than Rowand straight up. This is eye-opening, though: There are definitely worse contracts floating around.
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well same article said they probably wouldn't approach the deal because of Bradley's issues, but if the Cubs were willing to take on all that salary (which they won't be), this one guy would approve the deal.
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well same article said they probably wouldn't approach the deal [Rowand for Bradley] because of Bradley's issues...
They may be interested to know he's a solid .370 OBP.
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Is there anyway we could send Fuku and Milton to SF?
Put Rowand in Cf and Hawpe/Hermida in RF
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Why would the Cubs want Hermida over Fukudome again?
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I'm afraid we can't do that, Dr. Aaron B.
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I'd take Hawpe or Hermida over Fukudome.
1. Hawpe
2. Hermida
3. Fuku
Fuku is the worst hitter, with by far the worst contract of that group.
Plus next year will be his age 33 season. So those of you expecting Kfuk "breakout" might as well root for Aaron Miles "breakout". Both are just as likely.
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hawpe's going to be 31 next year, I wouldn't expect much of a breakout getting away from Coors from him either, but I'm all for getting out of Fuku's contract if possible and subsituting it for Hawpe's.
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If KFuk continues to do whatever strengthening exercises he did last year, I wouldn't rule out adding another 30-40 points to his slugging percentage.
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if you say so, the big difference for Fuku from 2008 to 2009 was 13 doubles...that could be as much as luck as anything else.
I like his approach and he can get very hot for big chunks of time, but if they can move the $24M left off his deal, I sure wouldn't mind.
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He just looked "thicker" this year IMO. Bigger but not fatter. HGH?
Some of it might have been luck, but mgmt. made a big deal out of his offseason strengthening program. Even though he definitely continued to be hot and cold, it didn't seem as chronological as it was in 2008.
Sure, if they can move him in the right deal, I agree, do it. All I was saying is let's not assume he cannot continue to improve despite his advanced age.
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KFuk stole 5% from his ground ball rate and gave it to his line drive rate between 2008 and 2009. Weirdness is that his average didn't improve... I don't know what to do with that. But I would guess that you've got a better to hit a double with a line drive than a ground ball. What caused the increase in line drives? I don't know. I guess it could have been strengthening exercises, but that's not an intuitive answer.
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KFuk went through the expected adjustment year from the move from Japan. I expect another year from KFuk very similar to '09. And I don't think '09 was really all that bad of a year from Fukudome. jmho
One thing that was clear to me, and I hope the front office got the message is Fuku needs to be in RF, not center.
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"Fuku is the worst hitter"
Not sure what's going on with the man crush on Hermida, but in which way is he a better hitter than Fukudome?
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After looking, it seems they both put up very similar numbers. I would have trouble making the case Hermida is better, except he's a lot younger.
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he isnt...in any category but power upside.
...but those waiting on that upside have been disappointed the past 2 years while sitting through some ugly hacks and uglier D.
you don't even have to trade for hermidia if you wait a second...hell, he'll probably be non-tendered because of how he's been swinging a bat and how badly he plays D, combined. someone might pick him up in trade. i think florida is kinda sick of marching him out there.
...and i could care less about his home/road splits...really. him swinging a bat is really ugly for someone who's got plus power. he's barely cashing in on it and making a lot of cruddy contact.
he's young and left handed, though... *shrug*
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Dude is 25 and put up an 860 OPS in a terrible hitters park in 2007.
Plus he will probably make less than 3 mil next year, on a one year deal.
If you can dump Kfuk, then you should do it. Upgrades can't happen unless we can pare payroll somewhere else.
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dude is a dude, not a spreadsheet.
i have no doubt he has room to improve but did you watch dude swing a bat this past season...or the season before?
dude should have stayed in the minors a little longer, maybe.
dude should be hitting 25+ homers WITH doubles even with a "meh" batting average...he's on top and under stuff he swings on. he's got a really messy swing...not for a month, or a couple months...but going on 2+ years now.
plus his D sucks.
kfuk can do everything dude can do except have a high power ceiling...and he does everything else better, even if only marginally better. that's an upgrade on anything but potential and there is a definite risk of regression involved...especially since you can't even count on dude's D.
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But is Kfuk worth 4-5 times the money per season?
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but what?
how does that help his swing or D? heck, march jake fox out there to hit 20-30 doubles, 10-20 random homers, and K 150 times while playing cruddy D...save 13-20x the money.
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The Cubs will get a better offer than Rowand straight up.
if they do, prepare for Armageddon, Hell Freezing Over and the Cubs winning the WS.
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I can't see Rowand straight up making any sense - at this point the Cubs are better off just dumping Bradley for nothing and just see how much salary someone is willing to take.
Fuku in CF and Fox in right is not a bad way to start the year, but I know Lou doesn't want Fox as the everyday RF'er for some reason. Fox would likely give better production in RF than any of the FA OF'ers available and at much lower cost. After a big year, then you can trade Fox to the AL and get some value for him. Trading him now, would be giving him away for free.
Re: Fox in right is not a bad way to start the year, but I know
Carrie Muskat in talking to management got the impression that Fox has no future with the Cubs. He's gone.
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With a $30MM contract, they are not going to "dump him for nothing".
Put down the bong, please.
No matter his poor performance in '09, Bradley is not Neifi.
He has value (as a player) based on his career numbers and age.
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but I know Lou doesn't want Fox as the everyday RF'er for some reason.
he won't even play Fox as an occasional or emergency RF'er...
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I hate to say it, but Hendry needs to Nut up and be the boss.
If Lou won't get on board with playing the best options. Then Hendry needs to do something about it. Celebrity manager or not. Bring back Jim Riggleman if you got to. I'm so sick of handedness and veteran presence. Play the best guys and stop making excuses.
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Do we really want Fox as an everyday RF? I like the guy, too, but...
Re: Jake Fox
Both Carrie Muskat and Paul Sullivan are recently saying the same thing, "Jake Fox has no future with the Cubs and likely will be traded"
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Do I want Fox playing RF every day.... NO
Do I think he is useful as a backup corner guy 3b/1b/rf/lf/C..... Yes
Do I think the cubs should dump him and his MLB minimum salary just because..... Hell no
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I see Rotoworld is now speculating about Brad Hawpe leaving Colorado, apparently a cold second half, the emergence of Carlos Gonzalez, and Hawpe's $7MM salary make him trade bait. Could the Rockies be that dumb? I'd take Hawpe's 900 OPS all day long, he'd be perfect for RF in Chicago. Theriot and Fontenot would be plenty pleased, I'm sure.
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doubt he'd have a .900 OPS away from Coors...although numbers away from Coors though don't take too big a drop.
of course Cubs don't look to be in any position to take on salaries..
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doubt he'd have a .900 OPS away from Coors...although numbers away from Coors though don't take too big a drop.
Well, as you said, his home/road slits are pretty close to each other:
Career-Home: .286/.379/.508 OPS: .887
Career-Road: .280/.375/.489 OPS: .864
2009-Home: .297/.397/.520 OPS: .917
2009-Road: .275/.372/.518 OPS: .890
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Coor's is still a nice place to hit, but not like it was 2 or 3 years ago. And if you call Coor's favorable, you must also admit Wrigley is often a favorable place to hit.
Stats & splits aside, Hawpe is a nice hitter. He makes good contact in game situations. It's a shame the Cubs will be throwing money out the window on the shit contracts Hendry signed last year because, like Rob G said: the Cubs probably won't have payroll to spend on a guy like this.
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well apparently he's not a 900 OPS guy even with Coors.
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He also seems to be the worst of the three fielders, by a considerable margin. There may be a Coors factor in that as well, though.
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For most of the year, it "felt" like the team needed a contact hitter. I think it would be a huge deal for the team to add a 300 hitter to the lineup hitting 5th or 6th, even if it meant taking a hit defensively. I'm not sure if Hawpe would be that guy or not.
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Hawpe K'd more frequently (once per 4.1 PA's) than Fukudome (5.4) or even Bradley (5.0)
He did drive in 15.2% of the runners he had on in front of him, about the same he did in 2008. Bradley drove in an anemic 9.7%. 15.2% is higher than just about everyone on the Cubs other than Fox, Lee and Ramirez.
I wonder if Hawpe would be an upgrade over a Fox/Hoffpauir platoon.
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it's almost not fair to have all this hawpe talk going on without talking about his "woah" arm.
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I'm not convinced that Hawpe has enough Scrap and grit to be a cub?
He does however have Lefthandedness. I say do it. Hawpe and Hardy as offseason upgrades.
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What about subtracting underachievers (and terminally injured) instead of signing marginal players?
Fontenot, Miles, Hell-man, Johnson
Realistically, Sorry-ano and Dome are going no-where with the Hendry contracts.
The trading chips worth anything are Bradley, Marshall, Fox, and maybe Hoff.
It ain't much - and Ricketts ain't gonna be opening the treasury.
I am not feeling optimistic again, with the current cast of characters - and the manager.
Recent comments
Some perspective (mostly for my own benefit): Dan Straily beat MadBum 2-1 today as the Reds took 2 of 3 in SF. Giants are 2-9 since the break and their lead over LA is down to 2.5 games. So, yeah...baseball. It'll drive ya nuts.
McNutt / Archer didn't work out well for us.
The floor is more valuable than the ceiling. It's the same reason we drafted Kris Bryant instead of Jon Gray.
Apparently the Yankees had the choice of either Gleyber Torres or Eloy Jimenez in the Chapman deal, and they chose Torres.
Chapman shouldn't be reserved anymore on 40 man.
Interesting split on Heyward according to ESPN. As a CF, his slash line .292/.363/.375/.738. At RF: .212/.204/.300/.604. 21/72 as a CF, 58/273 as a RF.
He's also been better when batting 2nd, but he had a nice start in the 6 hole, but has slumped ever since. He was heating up before the All Star break, but is only hitting .108 in the 2nd half.
When we played the Reds with Chapman, I always thought of it as an eight-inning game. So now other teams have eight innings to try to get a lead against the Cubs. Should be a challenge, assuming three or four Cubs ever start hitting again.
I don't really try to get to know and like these players personally. I'm rooting for laundry, for the most part. Exceptions might be when a player makes trouble in the clubhouse or in the dugout. (Zambrano and Bradley come to mind. Also Papelbon.) But I don't think Chapman is one of those jerks.
Unfortunately, a pretty good summary. It looks like next year Heyward will be getting yet another batting stance adjustment.
The recent good news has been Baez. I'm afraid about the next league adjustment on him, though, which is probably right around the corner.
Bryant I don't worry about too much. Just not seeing the ball well right now. He'll turn it around. Russell's been good with men in scoring position all year and he's 22ish. He'll be fine but next year is likely to be his breakout year.
If Travis' back-to-back-to-back walks cost Hendricks the ERA title, that would really suck.
Edit: "A lifeless loss to a lousy Sox team."
This place is a real downer after a loss to the Sox.
I expect they will go 5-9 games above .500 the rest of the year. 96-98 wins will win the Division.
They should have one more 2-3 week hot streak in them.
However, several players are just "average" for the last month: Zobrist, Ross, Russell, Ceasar. Montero is terrible, plus he cannot throw anyone out. -WAR. Heyward is abysmal at the plate, but a plus in the OF. Still with RISP he has been terrible. KB has not been driving in runs as of late. But Apparently the team is still above average with RISP according to S Sahadev.
I came to that realization tonight. I kept expecting them to play better, but now I realize they aren't going to. They are a .500 team now.
- They have one reliable starting pitcher. Jake's magic is gone, and it doesn't look like it's coming back. Lester has been lousy recently. Lackey's ERA goes up every time he pitches.
- Heyward has been dead weight all year. I can't remember a single series where he was a significant offensive contributor. Not one. Great defense, but but if he were hitting .270 with 10 HR and played average defense, the Cubs would be better off.
new rule...no one's allowed to throw k.bryant a changeup
Team is .500 since early May and is playing like a .500 team. Lack of offense seems to be putting a lot of pressure on the pitchers...and they aren't handling it terribly well.
.500 the rest of the way still may win the division though.
...i hate espn.
nothing like settling into a cubs game to get a few minutes cutaway for an ortiz AB in the 6th inning of the det/bos game.
oh, at least they're doing split screen now...i guess.


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Why Are We In Iraq?; (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?)
Published: September 7, 2003
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Sending in the troops would remain a last resort. If the South Africans can persuade Mugabe to go into retirement, so much the better. If American diplomats can persuade the Burmese junta to cease harassing Aung San Suu Kyi, it would obviously be preferable to using force. But force and the threat of it are usually the only language tyrants, human rights abusers and terrorists ever understand. Terrorism and nuclear proliferation can be contained only by multilateral coalitions of the willing who are prepared to fight if the need arises.
These rules wouldn't require the United States to make its national security decisions dependent on the say-so of the United Nations, for its unilateral right of self-defense would remain. New rules for intervention, proposed by the United States and abided by it, would end the canard that the United States, not its enemies, is the rogue state. A new charter on intervention would put America back where it belongs, as the leader of the international community instead of the deeply resented behemoth lurking offstage.
Dream on, I hear you say. Such a change might lead to more American intervention, and the world wants a lot less. But we can't go on the way we are, with a United Nations Charter that has become an alibi for dictators and tyrants and a United States ever less willing to play by United Nations rules when trying to stop them. Clear United Nations guidelines, making state sovereignty contingent on good citizenship at home and abroad and licensing intervention where these rules were broken might actually induce states to improve their conduct, making intervention less, rather than more, frequent.
Putting the United States at the head of a revitalized United Nations is a huge task. For the United States is as disillusioned with the United Nations as the world is disillusioned with the United States. Yet it needs to be understood that the alternative is empire: a muddled, lurching America policing an ever more resistant world alone, with former allies sabotaging it at every turn. Roosevelt understood that Americans can best secure their own defense and pursue their own interests when they unite with other states and, where necessary, sacrifice unilateral freedom of action for a common good. The signal failure of American foreign policy since the end of the cold war has not been a lack of will to lead and to intervene; it has been a failure to imagine the possibility of a United States once again cooperating with others to create rules for the international community. Pax Americana must be multilateral, as Franklin Roosevelt realized, or it will not survive. Without clear principles for intervention, without friends, without dreams to serve, the soldiers sweating in their body armor in Iraq are defending nothing more than power. And power without legitimacy, without support, without the world's respect and attachment, cannot endure.
Photos: Iraq: American soldiers dig through the rubble of the Canal Hotel in Baghdad on Aug. 20, one day after a truck bomb destroyed the headquarters of the United Nations mission to Iraq, killing at least 23, including the head of the mission, Sergio Vieira de Mello. (Photo by Stephanie Sinclair/Corbis); Afghanistan: American troops pause in the village of Loy Kariz during an operation to search for Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. The slow process of nation-building is under way in Afghanistan, despite George W. Bush's campaign promises never to engage in such policies. (Photo by Ed Kash); Liberia: U.S. marines in the port area of Monrovia last month. About 200 American troops entered Liberia to secure the U.S. Embassy and to offer some support of Nigerian peacekeepers, but most of the U.S. forces were withdrawn within a couple of weeks. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)


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At the end of the second round, as has happens in all PGA tournaments, the field will be cut and only the top performers will be allowed to continue on to the third round. Anyone who underperformed yesterday needs to turn things around quickly if they want any hope of playing over the weekend.
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Sir Elton John will perform at the season closing Top Of The Mountain concert in Ischgl Saturday, May 3. Full Article
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