[Peace-discuss] Setting the agenda for the intelligentsia

[John W.]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM, C. G. Estabrook <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
>>
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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.
>
>
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