And if you think the preaching is confined to economics, think again. This the caption of a listed CBS news story at the moment: “Female Marines Reach Out To Afghan Women”

Will the arrogance never end? Is this why we’re in Afghanistan, to help bring our superior notion of a woman’s place in the world, you know, the one conjured up by childless, manish, academic elitists, to a people whose religious culture simply doesn’t acknowledge their “brilliance”? To hear the leadership of the formerly “anti-war” Code Pink, you’d think so. And here you thought dispensational Evangelicals were the only ones advocating a crusade in the Middle East. This crap has all the earmarks of the “White Mans Burden” so emblematic of nineteeth century Western imperialism. Chan is right to object to these lectures.