No simple economic motive in Balkans

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 28 07:23:00 PDT 1999


Michael Pollak wrote:


>On Fri, 28 May 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> James, this wasn't "the left" speaking, it was a prominent liberal
>> imperialist pundit who has the ear of the president of the U.S.
>
>Are you sure he's a liberal and not a conservative? His article in the
>current Atlantic on Kissinger's dissertation is filled with rug's-eye
>paeans to Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and Henry the K. He reminds me of
>no one so much as George Will.

Who can tell these days? He does have the ear of the Clinton administration, though. Didn't he do some ghostwriting or ghost-thinking on eco-diplomacy for the State Department a few years back?

Doug



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