Existential Enmity Jeffrey Sachs was a western advisor to Poland during its transition from a command to a market economy. He relates how many of his recommendations for the adjustment were accepted by Washington, sometimes within hours of his proposing them. But when he later advised Russian presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin, the very same recommendations were ignored or denied - not because they were wrong or inadvisable, it seems, but because Washington culture was simply, irrationally hateful of Russia in whatever form Russia came, whether Czarist, Communist or Capitalist. And much the same can be said of Washington’s attitude towards China. It seems to be similar to the racist bigotry, arrogance. hypocrisy and stupidity that informed the attitude of the US to the Native Americans, to African Americans, and to many new immigrant groups that lingers beneath the concept of American Exceptionalism, the Monroe Doctrine, Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communism, the Wolfowitz doctrine, and the Bush doctrine and, closer to our own times, the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world.
Waiting the Countdown
Waiting the Countdown
Waiting the Countdown
Existential Enmity Jeffrey Sachs was a western advisor to Poland during its transition from a command to a market economy. He relates how many of his recommendations for the adjustment were accepted by Washington, sometimes within hours of his proposing them. But when he later advised Russian presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin, the very same recommendations were ignored or denied - not because they were wrong or inadvisable, it seems, but because Washington culture was simply, irrationally hateful of Russia in whatever form Russia came, whether Czarist, Communist or Capitalist. And much the same can be said of Washington’s attitude towards China. It seems to be similar to the racist bigotry, arrogance. hypocrisy and stupidity that informed the attitude of the US to the Native Americans, to African Americans, and to many new immigrant groups that lingers beneath the concept of American Exceptionalism, the Monroe Doctrine, Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communism, the Wolfowitz doctrine, and the Bush doctrine and, closer to our own times, the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world.