The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs will carry a review essay by Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia, detailing "key parallels between neoconservatives and jihadists.".* The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. will carry a review essay by Mahmood Mamdani Mahmood Mamdani (b. 1947 in Kampala, Uganda) is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United States. He is also the Director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies. , a professor at Columbia, detailing "key parallels between neoconservatives and jihadists." The two groups share "global ambitions," "a deep faith in the efficacy of politically motivated violence," and "cadres ... tainted by early stints in the Trotskyist or the Maoist left." This is old-hat conspiracy-mongering: It could be a Maureen Dowd Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times.[1][2] She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. column, if she were funny. What makes it piquant is its appearance in Foreign Affairs. For eons, the Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. , which publishes Foreign Affairs, was thought to be the master spinner of a web of sinister influences, liberal/defeatist or New York/financial. "Linked" was the classic verb in anti-CFR exorcisms, though "tainted" is an excellent modern substitute. Is Foreign Affairs now publishing such stuff out of relief that it is no longer the target? |
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