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...what of the way the book treats men, and affects our notion of them? Insofar as Ellis has deliberately created a monstrous deformity, it is nonetheless striking that the monster is male, and preys mostly on women; and insofar as he intends a closer identification with his creation, the author himself is implicated in the guilt. In either case, the culprit is a male, and the novel is unlikely to endear the unfairer sex to a nation that is already all too conscious of the harm...
Ellis' plot line is, of course, true to criminal statistics, and to our intuitive sense that terrible physical violence is all too often perpetrated by men on women. But it is very much to be hoped that the outrage would be no less if Ellis' monster had been a woman, or more of its victims men (the offense, in other words, lies not in the object of the sentences but in the sentences themselves...
...Shawcross, who was the chief British prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg, warned that "international law will be a dead letter unless we give criminal jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice and set up a mechanism for enforcing its judgments." The use of force against monster regimes will be easier to justify if sanctioned and undertaken by a multilateral body, presumably the U.N. As Desert Storm showed, the U.S. is as well suited to the role of a sheriff leading a posse as to that of the Lone Ranger...
...just what is this monster? Sadly, it is a program originally intended to save the world's remaining rain forests. The Tropical Forestry Action Plan, or T.F.A.P., was perhaps the most ambitious environmental aid program ever conceived. Sponsored in 1985 by the World Bank, the U.N. and other groups, the initiative was designed to help the world's tropical countries come to grips with deforestation. With the help of international agencies, each nation would come up with a formal proposal for managing and protecting its forests. T.F.A.P. would channel $8 billion in aid over the next five years to implement...
...running at full sprint from the monster of garbage...