Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By The Blob, Rhodes meant the bipartisan class of foreign policy elites—Washington swamp dwellers like Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates and their assorted Ivy League hangers-on, who backed the 2003 war in Iraq but “now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East,” as the Times put it, and bashed Obama, at least behind closed doors, for not intervening militarily to stop the bloodshed in Syria or contain Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.[...]
Then came Donald Trump.
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I like this, I think it's a good thing for to point out that just because Trump is the enemy of someone or something, doesn't mean that they don't need reformation themselves. The Foggy Bottom Ivy League elite culture problem is quite real, as Glasser points out:
She is one who should know, I did some googling on her, as you can read in the 2000 NYTimes wedding announcement she's a Harvard cum laude and both her and journalist hubby Peter Baker are both born of the whole East Coast & D.C. Elite Ivy League club. As a transplanted lower class Midwesterner in NYC, I've gotten to know some of the members of that whole thing and it does take courage to turn against this "birthright" like she's doing here. And yes, it's a lot of Greek to most of flyover country but a little conspiracizing about how these folks tend to think "best and brightest know best for the proles" is not out of line. Not the least of which because in this day and age, it's increasingly clear that Ivy League wasps are not always anywhere near the best and brightest, but just as naively insular in their own way as many other "tribals."
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 1:54pm
Agreed. Speaking of Susan Glasser, she did a podcast recently for Politico in which she interviewed Madeline Albright, Michele Flournoy and Wendy Sherman. The starting point? Alpha maleness ... I thought of you and your opinion on the subject. ;-) The transcript is here.
by barefooted on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 2:42pm
Sigh - just in case:
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 2:40pm
Thanks for posting this again.
by CVille Dem on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 5:45pm