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...sign of the CIA's increased prestige: 250,000 Americans answered help-wanted ads the agency ran last year. The CIA selected 10,000 for serious screening and eventually hired 1,400. Production of national intelligence estimates quintupled to 60 last year, and by common consent Casey has improved their quality too. Among other things, he has reorganized the agency's intelligence analysts, once grouped by specialty, along regional lines. Economists and political specialists, for example, now collaborate in a single report on a specific area. Casey's policy views are vehemently antiCommunist, a factor that insiders...
...long he thought he would survive if he lost a war to the British. Gradually, it became apparent what the difficulty had been. If Galtieri did not hold the power of decision, neither did the junta. On every decision, the government apparently had to secure the unanimous consent of every corps commander in the army and their equivalents in the navy and air force. Progress was made by syllables and centimeters, then vetoed by men who had never been part of the negotiations...
Begin's reply testified to the depth of his feelings: "You advise us to exercise complete restraint and refrain from any action . . . Mr. Secretary, my dear friend, the man has not been born who will ever obtain from me consent to let Jews be killed by a bloodthirsty enemy and allow those who are responsible for the shedding of this blood to enjoy immunity." Reading these phrases, I understood that the U.S. would probably not be able to stop Israel from attacking...
...Like rape, pornography is based on the premise that male control of female sexuality is okay--in fact "more fun" (because violent) than sexual activity that is mutually agreed to. Pornographic magazines make female sexuality and male violent fantasy about it available at the flip of a page, no consent required...
...looked into some dark corners and therefore have been called "consequentia." I think you would disclose still more ambiguities if your third book were to deal with silence. Merely to show the implications of some primitive distinctions would be helpful; for example, to distinguish between the silence that gives consent and the silence that is the product of the fear to dissent--or the silence that comes when one cannot find words with which to express the emotion of release from some oppressive affliction and the silence that makes one an accomplice to such oppression...