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Stevenson’s army, November 30
Henry Kissinger died Wednesday, 6 months after his 100th birthday. NYT has a comprehensive obit. Fred Kaplan is more critical, drawing on declassified documents bundled by the National Security Archive.
As most of you know, Kissinger was one of my academic mentors. I TA’d in his course for two years, had weekly meetings with him. I almost went to work in his NSC — until my immediate sponsors resigned in protest because of the invasion of Cambodia.
I was disappointed that he never wrote a letter of recommendation for my academic job portfolio, but Tony Lake later told me he said he was too busy. Lake also said I was in good company. Among the other things Kissinger repeatedly didn’t have time for were relations with the UN and foreign economic policy.
– There’s a new poll showing US polarization and willingness to use political violence.
– NYT analyzes polls on US views of Israel and Palestine.
– NYT notes danger of US-Iran war.
– Paul Musgrave tells how views of war have changed.
One more point on Kissinger: while I admire many of his accomplishments and deplore others, I especially resent his way of trying to avoid responsibility by making jokes. [“The illegal we do right away; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”]
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Stevenson’s army, June 6
On this 78th anniversary of the allied invasion of France, YouTube has a short cut from a newsreel report later shown in US theaters and the audio of CBS radio’s reporting that day, supplemented with newsreel footage.
The Biden foreign policy team is mostly people he has known a long time. [BTW, the most collegial and leak-free team was Bush 41’s] They show consensus and cooperation but little policy innovation. If you don’t like what they agree on, you call it group think, as Peter Beinart does.
WaPo reports China is building a naval base in Cambodia.
Economist reports CCP now bans grumbling about the party.
WSJ reports the diplomatic missions the CIA director has been sent on.
Politico has background on this week’s Latin American summit
Morning Consult compares what China has been doing in the region..
AP questions how long Ukraine can fight.
And a tweet shows the battlefield.
New WSJ poll shows Americans are pretty sour about things.
BusinessInsider notes Hill staff can double dip, working for Congress and campaigns.
NYT’s Charles Blow has good career advice, applicable far beyond his journalism. I’d say the same to people working on the Hill.
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