Kiddies running the USA
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:42 pm
WHEN director and comic writer Armando Iannucci was explaining the background for his political satire In The Loop, he said the film was in part inspired by his experience visiting Washington, where he discovered that US foreign policy and, by extension, the affairs of the world, were being run by ''22-year-old toddlers'' heading up their own departments.
He told one interviewer: ''They're very bright. They … get degrees in things like strategic terrorism studies [and] suddenly this 22-year-old is this congressman's chief foreign affairs adviser. We met a 23-year-old who came up with a policy paper on Central America and the State Department liked it so much but said: 'we're all busy - you do it!' So, he was in charge of Central America.
And another 22-year-old was sent out to Baghdad to help draw up the constitution. I don't know whether he can drive a car or even swear!''
The above came to mind because the Diary read in Haaretz yesterday that Woody Allen and Mia Farrow's son, Ronan Farrow, was awarded a Rhodes scholarship. The 23-year-old graduated from college at 15 and, in the words of Haaretz, has ''already aced Yale law school [and] will study international development … He's now working as a special adviser for Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton''. So it is all true. That is the US foreign policy twists and turns explained
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