Younghusband posted on Kaplan vs Barnett just yesterday. Barnett has responded to the uproar he caused:
Yes, I will confess to being rude in the newsletter article on Kaplan. It’s a skill set I mastered in DC years ago and I do it well. I try not to engage in such attack writing unless I feel compelled, and I felt compelled with Kaplan’s piece on China.What Newsweek recently did in its story on interrogations was the journalistic equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowed theater. People died as a result, and they should answer for this professionally.
What Kaplan does in the Atlantic Monthly piece is, in my opinion, basically the same thing—only in slow motion,
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Saru
May 17, 2005
5:17 pm
_But there's no such argument [that a legitimate case for] with China along these lines, and Kaplan does not even seek to make such arguments. Instead, he's just pushing the inevitability argument and trying to plant that seed in the minds of Americans: Get used to thinking about war with China!_
_Some so-callled strategists simply revel in the notions of war and conflict and chaos and suffering, and I think Kaplan is one of them. I personally find that mindset perverse and its application in professional endeavors like high-prrofile articles of this sort to be morally wrong._
_And I don't mind being incredibly rude in pointing that out. In fact, I think it's the only way to go until these types are shouted off the stage._
Maybe Curzon was right that Kaplan should have just come clean with his desire for a new Cold War with China, but I have yet to hear a compelling case for war with China (Curzon - still waiting for you on this one my friend.)
Shout away Mr. Barnett, shout away.
Saru
May 17, 2005
5:36 pm
Yeeeeeeeeehaw!
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Chirol
May 17, 2005
6:36 pm
Daniel Starr
May 17, 2005
7:56 pm
Younghusband
May 17, 2005
9:39 pm