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Koutoujian said that Koh built consensus??an ability hailed by a number of his colleagues—by convincing all the players that it was in their best interest to give the hospital a chance to stay open...
...undergraduate who sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “complicated” and “controversial” has a far better idea of truth than the professor who takes terrorist propaganda at face value and imposes it as the definitive “consensus?? view...
...Following the “liberal consensus?? of the postwar era that invaded Vietnam and ushered in the economic crisis of the 1970s, the movement that trumpeted economic freedom, individualism, and rational foreign policy made understandable electoral sense. Under Reagan, the Carter malaise was reversed, and economic policies were put in place that Clinton and the Bushes left untouched with great success. Communism fell without a missile fired, and foreign policy was managed without disastrous invasions; when Bush Sr. invaded Kuwait, he resisted the temptation to follow Saddam’s forces back to Baghdad, with his Defense...
...Nationalism of this sort, of course, is foundational to any imperial project, insofar as Empire presumes the moral correctness of its expansive reach. And in its quest for ‘consensus?? (or better polling figures, as today’s tired political climate would have it), it only requires that not too many Americans disagree that their government’s foreign policy be directed by a mandate to secure hegemony. In everyday rhetoric, including—tellingly—among today’s Democratic presidential hopefuls, this often translates into a pledge to protect national...
...Chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09 in an e-mail to the UC earlier this week. “Not having voting members and not taking votes masks that responsibility by incentivizing individuals to abscond from their duties in the interest of allowing the ‘consensus?? to move forward...