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...HIGHLY CLASSIFIED PENTAGON document known as the Defense Planning Guidance found its way into the New York Times. A front-page headline proclaimed that the Bush Administration had a secret plan to "thwart challenges to the primacy of America" in a "one-superpower world." The nation's top brass appeared to have endorsed "global unilateralism," the doctrine promoted by conservatives who believe that the U.S. essentially must go it alone in enforcing world peace. The Times called the suddenly famous ! Pentagon paper "the clearest rejection to date of collective internationalism" -- a competing view, favored by liberals, that coalitions, especially ones...
...editorial's treatment of Peruvian politics is just as insulting and parochial. The author's description of the return of democracy in 1980 is a blatant falsehood: "the brass realized Peruvians were getting sick of them and returned power to--of all people the befuddled Belaunde." In fact, Belaunde was elected by all Peruvians in a free and democratic election called by a Constitutional Assembly (to which representatives were also freely elected) in 1979 with the supervision of international observers from the United Nations and the Organization of American States...
...differentiation between the double roles relies largely on the costumes. The convicts are, of course, dressed in the requisite rags, but the officers are dressed a little too lushly--they wear red velvet trimmed with brass, white knee-breeches, white wigs and hats. In their eagerness to heighten the contrast between the status of the convicts and their masters, the designers have overstepped the boundary between verisimilitude and fantasy...
Those Washington spoon-bending parties are regularly attended by top brass from the Pentagon. The German government paid DM 400,000 (about $250,000) in 1990 to hire dowsers to scan federal offices and hospitals so that desks and beds could be relocated out of the path of the deadly E rays that authorities have accepted as real. Our own Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, has urged government funding for supernatural research, fearful that Russian scientists might be ahead of the U.S. in paranormal matters. Until recently, Pell retained a special assistant...
...usual sordid rightist military junta actually went on to implement, of all things, an APRA progressive reform agenda. The regime courted the Church, sympathized with the landless peasants, stressed social justice and generally confused the life out of every political scientist in the world. In 1980 the brass realized Peruvians were getting sick of them and returned power to--of all people--the befuddled Belaunde...