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...that anyone considered the long-term effects on the general populations of the countries involved. In fact, the State Department often seems to miss the point that nations are composed of many different actors. For example, in the former Yugoslavia, the vast majority of the people derive no personal benefit from the hostility that exists between their nation and much of the West, and in fact are economically hurt by it. However, the State Department seems to treat the former Yugoslavia only in terms of the Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to whose impudently hostile policies it reacts by increasing...
Again it is interesting to look at who benefited from these strikes. Certainly the American president, who could appear to be a strong leader at a difficult time, unafraid to use force against America's enemies. Is it likely the President would try to influence American foreign policy to benefit himself and his party, but act against the best interests of the American people...
...American policy of hostility toward the nations of hostile dictators seems almost uniformly counterproductive. There are very few nations where the population derives benefit from a hostile stance toward the United States. Yet there are many leaders in the world, democratically or otherwise empowered, who derive a benefit that may be essential to their maintenance of power from the image that can so easily be created of heroic opposition to the unjust and hostile United States...
With its bases in the Marxist philosophy repudiated by the U.S. victory in the Cold War, such a theory--that in any society there are a few people on top whose interests and benefit lie in their ability to fool the many on the bottom into supporting them--might well be spurned by the State Department...
This movie was not even given the benefit of bitchiness that The Craft had going for it. Where Neve Campbell and company reveled in their magic, Bullock tries to repress it, downplaying her powers in order to fit in. Kidman does her best to portray the bad girl who uses her magic for fun, but such a sickly sweet Bullock offsets her. Kidman walks into Bullock's attempts to create a normal life in smalltown New England, saying things like, "Hang on to your husbands, ladies." But we end up feeling sorry for Kidman instead of rejoicing in her power...