Scott McConnell comments on Bush’s promise of giving-up golf while the war’s on:
There’s also a more complicated sociological point to be made here:
that the WASP establishment which ran the country’s foreign policy
rather decently in the years after World War II has been nudged from
the central halls of power, and one is now more likely to find its
scions working on their handicaps or plotting elaborate middle age man getaways to this historic courses
of Scotland than clawing their way up the ranks of the foreign affairs
intelligentsia.
I agree, and wonder why there isn’t any journalism on the subject of the new establishment. The answer, my friend, is: the fear of another Holocaust if we talk about Jewish power. So journalists betray their mission of informing the public on the grounds that the public is not to be trusted, and then tell themselves that the public is too stupid to notice this anyway. But people aren’t too stupid. They know that significant changes have taken place in the sociocultural makeup of the establishment, especially the foreign-affairs branch; but they get little information about it, and the result is that commenters on my blog can claim that Jews run America, when obviously it’s not that simple…
