For Suez was not the only trauma to have shaped British foreign-policy thinking since the war.
Incredibly, the fact that this might still be an "important" objective of the old Soviet military-industrial apparatus is as absent from the thinking of senior Clinton Administration policy-makers as it was from their predecessors' during the Bush-Gorbachev years.
This is a magical-thinking approach to politics and policy, and journalism itself.
He is highly regarded by economists in the Fed and on Wall Street, and having worked with Mr Greenspan for so long, his thinking on interest-rate policy and financial markets is also close to the chairman's.
As this forward-thinking vision for revenue-generating policy enters the sausage grinder in the coming weeks, it will be vital for butchers and carpenters to understand this opportunity.
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Taken together, such a national clean energy policy will contribute to the foundation for a forward-thinking and forward-acting America, making our nation more stable and powerful, and creating jobs and economic growth for decades to come.
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And the over-riding doubt is the thinking behind a policy which results in tickets being sold (by methods too convoluted and arcane to detail here) to people who either do not care to or do not bother to watch the tennis, while outside the ground the queues of genuine fans accumulate patiently.
"Long-term security" is at the heart of foreign policy thinking, the government said in response.
Society urgently needs to find better ways of inculcating systems thinking in its decision-makers and public-policy experts in particular, he argued.
This is the longer-term thinking about US defense strategy, which is the policy organization's second major line of effort.
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Yet the need for greater co-ordination in fiscal policy is the main theme of the new governments' thinking.
NATO, which has spent half a century preparing for war, how much more true of the European Union, whose culture of horse-trading (my fish quota for your opt-out on social policy) is poorly suited to the sober, decisive thinking needed to run a military campaign.
It's key because it shows Conservative coalition thinking shifting slowly towards what was once anathema to their tribe - an industrial policy.
Now President Obama's administration is thinking of doing the same thing, although he might expand reconciliation to include two major policy initiatives -- national health-care reform and environmental regulations -- that go well beyond the budget.
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