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March 2, 2014
We may think that’s true, but Putin doesn’t.
We blame this in part on the absence of true intellectual and ideological diversity in so much of the academy, the policy world and the mainstream media.Most college kids at good schools today know many more people from different races and cultural groups than their grandparents did, but they are much less exposed to people who think outside the left-liberal box. How many faithful New York Times readers have no idea what American conservatives think, much less how Russian oligarchs do? Well bred and well read Americans live in an ideological and cultural cocoon and this makes them fatally slow to understand the very different motivations that animate actors ranging from the Tea Party to the Kremlin to, dare we say it, the Supreme Leader and Guide of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Putin Smashes Washington’s Cocoon - The American Interest
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 2, 2014 8:57 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
"A Politico report calls it 'a crisis that no one anticipated.’”
I sure hope it’s not possible to be any dimmer and be a government official.
Posted by: ErisGuy at March 3, 2014 2:51 AM
"Ooh, huge fireball came up in the sky, over there" points east.
"Wow, same thing happened yesterday, too".
Posted by: chasmatic at March 3, 2014 5:11 AM