[Peace-discuss] Setting the agenda for the intelligentsia

[C. G. Estabrook]

How many black Scots do you know?

Stewart however was in the Black Watch, I think...

Brad Pitt's production company is reported to be at work on a biopic of 
Stewart's (b. 1973) life. The androgynous actor Orlando Bloom (Legolas in LOTR) 
will apparently play Stewart.


John W. wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Probably explains Samantha Power (she's Irish); maybe Rory Stewart, too (he's
> Scottish).
> 
> 
> Is it Rory's femaleness you're referring to, Carl, or his minority status as
> a white Scotman?
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> *From:* C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> *To:* Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at anti-war.net <mailto: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...
> 
>