Politics & Communication with Joshua Gee

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari were both on Meet the Press yesterday, capping off a week-long goodwill tour of U.S. I can’t remember when in my political education I realized that people don’t go on Meet the Press in order to talk to the public at large or discuss ideas, but rather to campaign among a very specific subset of policy elite. It was odd to see elected leaders of countries that the United States sort of controls (or in the case of Pakistan props up the government) spending precious campaign time talking to David Gregory. I guess they feel those policy elite are a key constituency in getting them reelected. Imperialism is weird, man.