{"id":11640,"date":"2015-03-15T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T23:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2015-03-15T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T23:46:22","slug":"why-our-prep-school-diplomats-fail-against-putin-and-isis-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/15\/why-our-prep-school-diplomats-fail-against-putin-and-isis-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Why our prep-school diplomats fail against Putin and ISIS | New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" title=\"Kerry and Putin\" alt=\"Kerry and Putin\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/kerryputin.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do our \u201cbest and brightest\u201d fail when faced with a man like Putin?&#8221; Ralph Peters asks. &#8220;Or with charismatic fanatics? Or Iranian negotiators? Why do they misread our enemies so consistently, from Hitler and Stalin to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State\u2019s self-proclaimed caliph?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The answer is straightforward:<\/p>\n<p>Social insularity: Our leaders know fellow insiders around the world; our enemies know everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The mandarin\u2019s distaste for physicality: We are led through blood-smeared times by those who\u2019ve never suffered a bloody nose.<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, bad educations in our very best schools: Our leadership has been educated in chaste political theory, while our enemies know, firsthand, the stuff of life.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, there is arrogance based upon privilege. For revolving-door leaders in the U.S. and Europe, if you didn\u2019t go to the right prep school and elite university, you couldn\u2019t possibly be capable of comprehending, let alone changing, the world&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>That educational insularity is corrosive and potentially catastrophic: Our \u201cbest\u201d universities prepare students to sustain the current system, instilling vague hopes of managing petty reforms.<\/p>\n<p>But dramatic, revolutionary change in geopolitics never comes from insiders. It\u2019s the outsiders who change the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An Athenian general once wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"qtn\">\n<p>The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its laws made by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.\n<\/p>\n<p>~ Thucydides (c. 460 BC \u2013 c. 400 BC)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/03\/15\/why-our-prep-school-diplomats-fail-against-putin-and-isis\/'>Why our prep-school diplomats fail against Putin and ISIS | New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why do our \u201cbest and brightest\u201d fail when faced with a man like Putin?&#8221; Ralph Peters asks. &#8220;Or with charismatic fanatics? Or Iranian negotiators? 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