In one of those eerie coincidences that leaves one looking around suspiciously while the music track from The Twilight Zone echoes in the brain at 2:00 am, I early this morning finished W.E.B. Griffin's novel, Covert Warriors.  What is so eerie is the premise of the storyline that Vladimir Putin is ingeniously attempting to destabilize America's place in the world order through infiltrating the American president's intimate inner circle and influencing his behavior as to make him look inept and possibly unbalanced.  Published in 2011 and apparently set a few years earlier, the book has a rather abrupt, unresolved, unsatisfactory ending, leading one to believe that there must be a Volume II in the works. The machinations of the fictional Vlad couldn't more closely parallel current world political events. While I'll stay away from the comparison of mental imbalance, although advanced narcissism is considered a psychiatric disorder, the events of the past few days show solid...(Read Full Post)