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July 1, 2010
A Pitiful, Helpless Hippie Foreign Policy
"A Warning to the President of the 60s (and the USA)" @ World Affairs Journal
P.J. O'Rourke: Not all the dreams of the sixties have come true, thank goodness. But on June 23rd one hippie fantasy materialized. A far out and happening publication, its roots in the “alternative media,” and its content devoted to the “youth culture,” changed U.S. foreign policy. Nothing like that ever happened during the Vietnam War. As the result of an article in Rolling Stone, General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, was fired. And maybe America’s resolve to wrestle Afghanistan into a simulacrum of a polity departs with McChrystal and his mouthy staff. If so, chalk it up to the power of peace and love. Well, love. There is no peace in Afghanistan.
Posted by Vanderleun at July 1, 2010 12:16 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.