Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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English went on to say that the offensive capabilities might be feasible long before the defensive ones. Many problems encountered by a defensive system--such as the incredibly complex software, a perfectly synchronized network of lasers and the detection of incoming missiles--would not be a problem for a laser system programmed to attack...
...seriousness of the Irangate crisis, however, was not the only impediment to damage control. Damage control failed because the media failed to comply with Reagan propaganda. This unprecedented lack of media complicity has complex roots. First, the media loves crises in Iran almost as much as it loves the President...
...Ronald Reagan. They are all true, as far as they go. But each has a less sunny flip side, like a photographic negative of the bright, familiar image. Serene: intellectually $ passive. Instinctive: unreflective. Visionary: oblivious to troubling details. Determined: rigid. Optimistic: detached from reality and unwilling to wrestle with complex issues...
...Reagan was the newly elected Governor of California and Meese a hard-line Alameda County deputy district attorney. Joining Reagan's staff as legal-affairs adviser, Meese soon rose to become chief of staff. A trusted but low-profile aide, Meese perfected the one-page "mini-memo," in which complex issues were reduced to a few paragraphs for a chief executive who had little patience for details...
Once the Congress, the courts, the huge media complex become engaged in examining an unhappy event like this one, the American system demands a conclusion. The wheels grind to the end. Only purity survives, and sometimes not even that...