What's the raincoat in your analogy, as far as U.S. policy in the Middle East is concerned?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:44 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > People in the U.S. get credit for what they do to change the policies of > > the U.S. government. > > That's an interesting formulation: it takes everything as given > except 'policies'. But what if 'policies' are the ineluctable > outcome of all the stuff that this formulation leaves out? Suppose > changing 'policies' is a lot like trying to make water more dry, > rather than wearing a raincoat and keeping the water *off* one's > ass? > > It's a classic liberal approach, really. It's a lot like the > way liberals try to 'help the poor'. The problem with poor > people is that they don't have enough money, but this is the > very problem that neither liberals nor conservatives will address. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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