The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. - William Pfaff

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William Pfaff

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

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The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

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Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

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The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

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It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

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Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

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