dagblog - Comments for "Russia, Trump, and a New Détente"

Maybe I'm turned on by girls

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:48:29 +0000

Maybe I'm turned on by girls dressed in the equivalent of manila envelopes in various stages of reclassification...

We get conflicting

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:33:49 +0000

In reply to I've been on their mail list

We get conflicting information.Their online FAQ's says: A: If you are a registered user, but not a subscriber, you can view up to 5 complimentary articles per month. My access ,when I get an email from them, acts exactly the same way, an intro that fades a few paragraphs in, until I log in to read the rest. Thanks for responding.

FA used to be one of my

ocean-kat — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:28:43 +0000

In reply to I've been on their mail list

FA used to be one of my favorite sites after you introduced it to me. Many very good in depth articles. I was very disappointed when they restricted access. If I decide I can afford another subscription FA is on the top of my list. I've been thinking about it the past few months but haven't felt I can afford it right now.

I've been on their mail list

artappraiser — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:19:09 +0000

In reply to The online edition of Foreign

I've been on their mail list for over a year, subscribed to several categories of newsletters from them, I get emails from them like every few days with every new posting in those categories. They let me see like a third of the article, then it fades out, and when I click on "read more", it tells me that I've already read my 1 free article and offers an annual subscription of $35.95 a year for either digital or print or special sale price of $40.95 for both.

I realize that you are looking for someone to discuss this article with, sorry, it ain't going to be me. Apologies if I've been a downer on the front, but I only brought it up in context of Peracles comment asking you to post more content of the article or what you found interesting about it because he didn't/couldn't access it either.

The online edition of Foreign

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:02:11 +0000

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The online edition of Foreign Affairs offers 5 free reads a month, not just one. No one need imagine what the article is like.

While posting an article and highly recommending it is in a sense "coaxing" people to read it, I would not coax anyone to offer an opinion on what it says. That is obviously anyone's choice and one to be respected but I would appreciate anyone who has if fact actually read the article to acknowledge that one fact just to satisfy my curiosity. I admit that I am especially curious regarding those who do take time to comment with innuendo about the source and only seem to be suggesting reasons not to read the article.

I have not read at FA enough to describe it as a publication one way or another but Doctorow thinks he has and offers this opinion that the article by English is outside the norm for that publication.

Yet, it is one thing to have a courageous author and knowledgeable scholar. It is quite another to find a publisher willing to take the heat for presenting views that venture outside the mainstream Establishment. In that sense, it is stunning that Foreign Affairs chose to publish English and let him destroy the groupthink that has dominated the magazine and the elite foreign policy circles for years.

you gonna be waiting a

artappraiser — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:41:28 +0000

In reply to Yeah, and that I'm saving for

you gonna be waiting a loooong time, methinks. As opposed to most other sites like ForeignPolicy.com which has all the millenial bells and whistles trying to make international affairs sexy, Foreign Affairs still has that Foggy Bottom scholarly white paper thing going on. Like I imagine their meatspace conferences to have a dress code and gentlemen not properly attired are led to a room with spare jackets and ties (w/regimental stripes of course!)...and no raising one's voice, please...other gentle folk might be wanting to think or snore...

This one would be a good

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:31:29 +0000

In reply to re: yeah, could register for

This one would be a good choice and well worth the effort of signing in if it was all that anyone ever got there. IMO.

Yeah, and that I'm saving for

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:30:23 +0000

In reply to re: yeah, could register for

Yeah, and that I'm saving for "Girls of the State Department Gone Wild".

re: yeah, could register for

artappraiser — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:18:53 +0000

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re: yeah, could register for free, but...

chose wisely once you do, as they only give ya one free article per month.

I was led to it by an article

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:35:04 +0000

In reply to Behind a firewall (yeah,

I was led to it by an article by Gilbert Doctorow who says in part "It is encouraging that Foreign Affairs magazine, the preeminent professional journal of American diplomacy, took the extraordinary step (extraordinary at least in the current environment) of publishing Robert English’s article, entitled “Russia, Trump, and a new Détente,” that challenges the prevailing groupthink and does so with careful scholarship.

In effect, English’s article trashes the positions of all Foreign Affairs’ featured contributors for the past several years. But it must be stressed that there are no new discoveries of fact or new insights that make English’s essay particularly valuable. What he has done is to bring together the chief points of the counter-current and set them out with extraordinary writing skills, efficiency and persuasiveness of argumentation. Even more important, he has been uncompromising."