Would the prof. care to comment on why a new generation of "Arabists" never took root at Foggy Bottom once Loy Henderson & co. went out to pasture? It seems to me at any rate that an Arabist counterfoil at State may have had a moderating influenced on the gaggle of RC-Zionist New Frontiersmen who gained the ascendancy in the 60s and have held it ever since.
Would the prof. care to comment on why a new generation of "Arabists" never took root at Foggy Bottom once Loy Henderson & co. went out to pasture? It seems to me at any rate that an Arabist counterfoil at State may have had a moderating influenced on the gaggle of RC-Zionist New Frontiersmen who gained the ascendancy in the 60s and have held it ever since.