VDH: two themes combined

[cema]

Someone in my friends feed has been complaining about certain elite universities, and (separately) Hacker News linked to articles questioning how much elite education is worth. This is one theme; the other one is Obama's policies, especially foreign.

Victor Hanson managed to combined them in one essay. I am not sure what to make of it, but it reads nice.

Comments

Re: proof of what - the damage?

[sowa.livejournal.com]

"Carter did damage US foreign policy despite being teh most well-internioned of people. still is."

Agree with the first part. Totally disagree with the second. I don't know any other open anti-semite among recent US Presidents. His islamophilia and admiration of Khomeini are at the roots of all problems in this part of world that we have now. His hypocrisy (ср. анекдот про надувное бревно для Ильича) is beyond any limits.

Next, you changed you position. Now it is ALL talk. So, we agreed on an important issue: O commitment to the Israel is JUST TALK.

Concerning your plan A (it is not my plan, neither N's, I believe, but let me comment on it anyhow). I am not sure that you are aware of the fact the very notion of "Palestinian people" is of quite recent vintage. It did not existed in 1970, for example. So, there are no palestinians, there are arabs. And there are dozens of arab states, including extremely rich and with huge territory. They, not Israel, should be pressed to become part of solution, not a (hidden) part of the problem.

I noticed that you posted this question in your journal. To my regret, the discussion there turned out to be not particularly pleasant. And main part in it is taken not by you (there are no your comments at all), but by you dear friend Taki Net. I respect your feelings for this particular user, but my feelings are quite different (and I hope that you will respect them also). So, commenting there is out of question.

Actually, I wrote about these issues, but not in my journal. Once quite recently, once several years ago. But I don't want us to intrude into these journals with our conversation.

Here is an offer. I create a small group of friend, including you and cema, and excluding all about whom I have reasons to believe that they cannot participate in a decent discussion (of these issues). I post links to these two discussion, open only to this group, and we may talk there.

offer,,,

[tandem-bike.livejournal.com]

okay.. let's try..yes.

Re: offer,,,

[sowa.livejournal.com]

Done.

[cema.livejournal.com]

Thanks.