financeguy
ONE love, blood, life
Diamond said:Another bigoted view?
I would argue an article that starts with the following is indeed, prima facie, bigoted:
The politics of charisma is so Third World. Americans were never going to buy into it for long.
Are you implying that because his name is Mr Ajami that he's exempt from the charge of anti-black racism? How curious.
But, regardless of whether its a bigoted view or not, the above quote is pure Alice in Wonderland stuff. But, that's no surprise - neo-cons like Ajami are permanent residents of Wonderland: the beliefs they hold are demonstrably false and they operate in a realm of fantasy.
Most of the rest of the world believes, wrongly or rightly, that a significant proportion of Americans quite frankly do buy into 'the politics of charisma' to an extent that's very unhealthy, but funnily enough it isn't, by and large, Democrat Presidents who are linked to this - au contraire, it is people like Bush II and - yes - Reagan, that are most frequently cited as evidence for this thesis.
How quickly some forget 2003.
Dixie Chicks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Those who forget are doomed to repeat the past, as is always the case.