[PEN-L:1625] Re: Re: Re: Re: George Kennan

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>There is _always_ a third side. But as a part-time reader of Chomsky, I've
>noticed that he doesn't spend much (or any) effort discussing the forces
>that lost in their battle to be represented in the power elite. Rather, his
>emphasis is on the actual policy pronouncements (and more importantly, the
>actual policy actions) of the winners, i.e., those who actually were able
>to join the power elite.
>
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &

You can think that the people who pushed through the Marshall Plan and the
post-WWII economic order were as much cynical realists as George Kennan.
But in my opinion at least you would be mistaken. And you can't say that
these economic idealists were powerless--human rights, democracy, and
economic development have continued to be at the center of the rhetoric
(and sometimes--alas, too rarely--of the practice)  of U.S. foreign policy.


Brad DeLong