A Fore-gotten Elite

By Kleinheider Posted on May 14, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Scott McConnell thinks maybe it would have been better on America had George Bush not given up golf during the War On Terror:

Indeed, it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a pretty strong correlation between presidential time spent on the golf course and superior chief executive judgment, a metric which would rightly rank Dwight Eisenhower first among post-war presidents.

There’s also a more complicated sociological point to be made here: that the WASP establishment which ran the country’s foreign policy rather decently in the years after World War II has been nudged from the central halls of power, and one is now more likely to find its scions working on their handicaps or plotting elaborate middle age man getaways to this historic courses of Scotland than clawing their way up the ranks of the foreign affairs intelligentsia.

This tidal retreat from public life hasn’t necessarily been a good thing.

SEE ALSO: Joe Powell

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