[Peace-discuss] Setting the agenda for the intelligentsia

[C. G. Estabrook]

Probably explains Samantha Power (she's Irish); maybe Rory Stewart, too (he's 
Scottish).

David Green wrote:
> I will add the perhaps gratuitous observation that in the era of 
> post-feminist identity politics, it's not by accident that such grand 
> ideological marching orders are best given by younger, preferably 
> long-haired and attractive women, labeled "brilliant," also of minority 
> identity, who have somehow created the impression that they are most 
> concerned with what they call genocide. Boring white men just can't 
> quite maintain order by themselves anymore.
>  
> DG
> 
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> *From:* C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> *To:* Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> *Sent:* Sun, October 25, 2009 2:08:18 PM
> *Subject:* [Peace-discuss] Setting the agenda for the intelligentsia
> 
> The NYT today publishes a more candid than usual article in its campaign 
> to set the terms of public discussion of US war policy -- in a way that 
> will favor that policy.
> 
> "Where Is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?" appears on the inside back cover 
> of the book review.  The article -- by a well-known liberal Yale law 
> professor -- concludes that "It may not be a bad thing that almost no 
> one in foreign policy circles is proposing anything new." Especially 
> anything like ending the war.
> 	...