Obama’s foreign policy just isn’t cricket
But according to the FT, it should be:
“In the corridors of Washington, the dominant metaphor in discussions about President-elect Barack Obama’s foreign policy is baseball…
But baseball is President Bush’s game, not Mr Obama’s. If the new administration is going to achieve change we can believe in, a good start would be to junk the baseball references – not least because baseball is an exceedingly dangerous metaphor when it comes to foreign policy.
Mr Obama ought to take his lead from a more complex and demanding game than baseball. When it comes to foreign policy, he should take cricket as his text. There are seven lessons about the international system that Mr Obama could learn from cricket.”
Personally, I was amazed by the footnote to the piece:
The writer is the director of the global issues programme at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and a visiting fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution
As I thought it would read:
The writer is a sports writer
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