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...Clinton foreign policy. For George Bush, author of our first purely humanitarian intervention, Somalia was an afterthought. For Clinton it is the model. In Somalia he inflated the mission from feeding the starving to nation building, until driven out by public opinion. In Bosnia only last month, a U.N. bureaucrat was able to call in U.S. warplanes to strike at Serbs to avenge French peacekeepers wounded by Serb gunmen bent on fighting Muslims. What this has to do with us Clinton has yet to explain. And now Haiti...
...woman bureaucrat timidly asked, "How much will it all cost?" Zhirinovsky seemed insulted. "We're not talking about money. It's all for free! I saved the Serbs from bombing, so they can't do enough to show me their appreciation...
While HRE is in such a vehement spring-cleaning mode, we at dartboard would like to offer a few more suggestions of the types of items which HRE Ministry of Justice can make "disappear." Start with a ridicules "shops" themselves, and then the gray, pseudo-Bauhaus, bureaucrat-infested, architectural travesty known as "Holyoke Center." Then move across the yard and snatch up cell blocks A-D of the Canaday Penal Colony. Finally, squash Le Corbusier's odious bug of a building, the ineptly named "carpenter center...
Conversations with the Pre-Greedicus can often seem like conversations with a persistent detective or investigative reporter: "So, how did you find out about that job?" "Can you give me the official title of that government bureaucrat I saw you schmoozing with yesterday?" "So how much will you be making next year?" "By the way, what's the name of that student you were speaking to yesterday who just got an offer from Morgan Stanley...
...details of Hitler's terror against the Jews seeped out from Nazi-occupied Europe, American Jews begged federal officials to help. The bureaucrat in charge of immigration, Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, was both anti-Semitic and obsessed by fears that European refugees might be security risks. In a 1940 memo he argued that Jews could be kept out of the U.S. by "advising our consuls to put every obstacle in the way, which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of visas...