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During a stint at Yale, Cheney was moved by a course he took from H. Bradford Westerfield, then a self-described ardent hawk who believed the U.S. should use its role as the leader of the free world to fight communism wherever it took hold. Cheney has often told friends that the first author to have a profound impact on his thinking was Winston Churchill, whose multivolume history of World War II impressed upon Cheney the idea that leadership in world affairs is about recognizing dangers and confronting them rather than wishing them away...
Just as Cheney believes bad things happen when the U.S. acts meekly, he believes the converse as well. "The reason that the 20th century ended with the forces of communism and fascism defeated and with capitalism and democracy increasing as the political and economic models people aspire to is due in no small part to U.S. leadership, backed by U.S. military force," Cheney recently told Mary Matalin, a top aide. "Our leadership and our might shaped the events of the last century...
...here's the odd thing. Nearly 80 years after his death, it is Wilson's belief in peace, democracy and prosperity through trade and free markets that has come to define the aspirations of humankind. Communism and fascism, once rivals to liberal democracy, now seem no more than horrifying museum pieces. Even more surprisingly, a sort of muscular Wilsonianism has found a welcoming home in the White House. Bush, like Wilson, wants to remake the world...
...looted by its own executives. Enron and WorldCom turned out to be Twin Towers of false promises. They fell. Their stockholders and employees went down with them. So did a large measure of public faith in big corporations. Each new offense seemed to make the same point: with communism vanquished, capitalism was left with no real enemies but its own worst impulses. It can be undone by its own overreaching players. It can be bitten to pieces by its own alpha dogs...
...same period, Ma wrote and edited for a handwritten student magazine, Free Chinese Monthly. According to one of the articles he wrote, the magazine promoted a doctrine of “opposing communism, opposing independence...