CFR: Tea Party Dangerous, Obstructive
Mar 10, 2011 6:26:42 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Mar 10, 2011 6:26:42 GMT -5
Looks like the powers that be are starting to get the message and they might be a little worried about it... Hey CFR, choke on it!
CFR: Tea Party Dangerous, Obstructive
Written by Bob Adelmann, Wednesday, 09 March 2011 17:15
Foreign AffairsWhen the internationalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) decided it was time to take a hard look at the growing influence of the Tea Party movement in America, it selected “one of the country’s leading students of American foreign policy,” Walter Russell Mead, to do the study. Appearing as the headline article in Foreign Affairs for March/April 2011, his article is entitled “The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy.”
Mead’s credentials for representing one of the leading lights of the Anglo-American Establishment are impeccable: an honors graduate from the Groton School and Yale University, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the CFR. He is now a professor of foreign affairs at Bard College and is editor-at-large of The American Interest magazine.
He got the first part right: “The rise of the Tea Party movement has been the most controversial and dramatic development in U.S. politics for many years. Supporters have hailed it as a return to core American values; opponents have seen it as a racist, reactionary, and ultimately futile protest against the emerging reality of a multicultural, multiracial United States and a new era of government activism.”
He then complains that this battle of ideologies is going to be impossible to resolve, especially since the Tea Party has no leadership, calling it “an amorphous collection of individuals” which include “affluent suburban libertarians, rural fundamentalists, ambitious pundits, unreconstructed racists, and fiscally conservative housewives. ” He was distressed to learn that about 115 million of them exist (or at least sympathize with the movement) according to a recent poll. Consequently, the Tea Party’s “message” is mixed.
Read more: www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/6625-cfr-tea-party-dangerous-obstructive
CFR: Tea Party Dangerous, Obstructive
Written by Bob Adelmann, Wednesday, 09 March 2011 17:15
Foreign AffairsWhen the internationalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) decided it was time to take a hard look at the growing influence of the Tea Party movement in America, it selected “one of the country’s leading students of American foreign policy,” Walter Russell Mead, to do the study. Appearing as the headline article in Foreign Affairs for March/April 2011, his article is entitled “The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy.”
Mead’s credentials for representing one of the leading lights of the Anglo-American Establishment are impeccable: an honors graduate from the Groton School and Yale University, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the CFR. He is now a professor of foreign affairs at Bard College and is editor-at-large of The American Interest magazine.
He got the first part right: “The rise of the Tea Party movement has been the most controversial and dramatic development in U.S. politics for many years. Supporters have hailed it as a return to core American values; opponents have seen it as a racist, reactionary, and ultimately futile protest against the emerging reality of a multicultural, multiracial United States and a new era of government activism.”
He then complains that this battle of ideologies is going to be impossible to resolve, especially since the Tea Party has no leadership, calling it “an amorphous collection of individuals” which include “affluent suburban libertarians, rural fundamentalists, ambitious pundits, unreconstructed racists, and fiscally conservative housewives. ” He was distressed to learn that about 115 million of them exist (or at least sympathize with the movement) according to a recent poll. Consequently, the Tea Party’s “message” is mixed.
Read more: www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/6625-cfr-tea-party-dangerous-obstructive