The article is a long one, but well worth reading for the brutal eviseration of Mortenson, the Times, Kristof, the Obama administration, and sanctimonious liberal foreign policy in general. It's a target-rich environment, and Kirchick is emptying all his clips.
I've particularly despised Kristof for a number of years now, so it's satisfying to know that there are others who find this pompous prig as insufferable as I do.
There were lots of inconsistencies in Mortensen's writing. Never thought he was a hero, but more a bohemian coming from a liberal-missionary family trying to find a cause.
Nicholas Kristof is like most leftists, carrying unwarranted guilt for being born and raised in a free, affluent nation - the United States of America. They spend most of their life railing against it in some form. Always anti-military and subscribing to Utopian dreams that are mere fantasies. They are often well-educated (Kristof is a Harvard man), make a good living as professors and/or writers,among other professions, constantly criticizing America with a special disdain for the middle class, which they consider little more than peasants with the trappings of civilization. I’ve long tired of these tedious people with their pretensions and predictably vapid commentaries on ‘social justice’ that they spew on liberal websites and TV networks. Kristof isn’t the worst of these posers but he is certainly near the top.
His double-standards are as big and glaring as the sun in the sky, and he just can't see it. Ergo, I have no interest in anything he has to say.
That’s going to leave a mark, hopefully on Kristof’s effete ego.
Wow.
Just wow.
First, this article, which I read every word, reminds me of another, very similar story from my own childhood.
I was around 12 years old. the books was “The Ugly American”.
I was such a naive lass, full of good thoughts and, of course, love.
I read that book and decided, right away, I would join The Peace Corps...yes I would.
Because the ugly Americans built a beautiful 6 lane highway through the jungles of Cambodia or some such. Whilst meanwhile little old hump-back Cambodian women were sweeping their floors with tiny little brooms which contributed more to their agony of the curving backbone.
They needed me, so my 12 year old self thought. They needed me to wrest away the small brooms and give those suffering woman a decent-sized brooms. They needed me to tear down the big unused highways through leafy jungles and provide trails for better traversing of the region.
The whole book was one big lie, something I didn’t discover until grown into my 20’s.
This is an example of a couple of evil liberals using people’s good intentions to their own advantage.
The bigger problem is they have this big platform...the NYTimes being one, to publish their lies.
Just awful....just awful.
Really good article.
“Fake but accurate” is the world the left chooses to live in... Truth is whatever feels good...