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...then asked if it was worth going to war to liberate Kuwait. It was a Clausewitzian question, which I posed so that the military would know what preparations it might have to make. I detected a chill in the room. The question was premature, and it should not have come from me. I had overstepped; I was only supposed to give military advice. Nevertheless, as National Security Adviser for Ronald Reagan, I had wrestled with the politics and economics of crises for almost two years in the White House, in this very room. I had participated in superpower summits. More...
...appointment of the committee "will act as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of every professor who drifts outside the mainstream..." And in the Washington Post article of August 4, while applauding the outcome of the inquiry, he said the investigation was a mistake, because it "will chill controversy...
...SHARE DEEP CONCERNS ABOUT children's access to obscenity and other harmful materials on the Internet. In the rush to protect children [Cover Story, July 3], however, we need not unnecessarily chill online speech between consenting adults or set up a government agency as censor of the speech carried over computer networks. I have sponsored an alternative legislative approach to study ways to empower parents, not the government, to decide what is appropriate for their children to access on the Internet. Rather than stifling the continued development of the Internet with censorship, we should encourage the marketplace to develop services...
...long ago I was at a gala dinner to mark an important anniversary. There were 50 Heads of State present, perhaps more, who came to honor the heroes and victims of the greatest war in human history...A slight chill went down my spine, for I could not help observing that one table had been singled out as being special and particularly important. It was a table for the big powers...The architect of that seating arrangement...was not guided by a sense of responsibility for the world, but by the banal pride of the powerful...
...still before dawn when we set out. In the chill and damp, the 20-odd strangers on the truck huddled against one another in silence. I asked Mother where we were going. "West," she said. "West." Where had the truck come from? "Father sent it," she said...