Yes, more clerisy bans please.

Posted by: Eric Martin at August 24, 2007 04:42 PM | Permalink to this comment

OK, no "cl**isy." But the debate is useful.

I would be most interested in your take on the "inherent goodness" issue raised in the Greenwald-Cohen debate. I found the comments on the Democracy Arsenal post (“Dissecting Greenwald”) incisive. Is Michael Cohen's naivete on this symptomatic of the reality-based (non-neo-neocon) sector of the FPC's seeming inability to grasp the extent to which neocons (and their opportunistic allies) have hijacked (not to say criminalized, e.g. Elliot Abrams) the foreign policy apparatus and the media's coverage of same.

I understand the many wing-nut versions of exceptionalism, but where or by whom in the FP literature is the idea recently and authoritatively articulated that our FP sins against our own stated values (and interests), even when acknowledged, are absolved because we are an inherently good nation full of very, very good people?

BTW, Kudos to Cohen for engaging with his critics, some of whom were less than civil (for good reason, IMHO). See MY disclaimer, above.

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Posted by: Rudi at August 26, 2007 05:51 PM | Permalink to this comment