Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War
The White Man's Burden, a phrase immortalized by English poet Rudyard Kipling as an excuse for European-American imperialism, was front and center Thursday morning (October 29) at a RAND-sponsored discussion of Afghanistan in the Russell Senate Office Building.???? The agenda was top-heavy with RAND speakers, and the thinking was decidedly "inside the box" - so much so, that I found myself repeating a verse from Kipling, who recognized the dangers of ... Full Story »
Posted by Cynthia Gilbert - via NewsRack (Energy), NewsRack (Afghanistan)
Ironic that RAND was running this dialogue since they seemed to have been in the thick of the Vietnam mess?