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...that the spotlight is on Tenet, a bipartisan chorus is calling him the perfect man for the role of CIA director. It's a monstrous job. Three directors in the past six years have tried to drag America's $30-billion-a-year intelligence empire into the post-cold war era as ugly disclosures--especially the unmasking of traitors Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson--made the agency seem an unreliable relic. Why should anyone think that Tenet, a New Yorker whose Greek-immigrant parents owned a diner, can succeed...
Intelligent white people are so caught up in the idea of combating crime in post-Cold War America that they are unable to see that their support of the prison industrial complex and the virtually all-white police force is the greatest threat to "quality of life" in the nation...
Inevitably the historical debate will lead to a questioning of Switzerland's most quintessential institution: neutrality. One lesson of the wartime experience is that, in a conflict between good and evil, neutrality is morally indefensible. In the post-cold war era neutrality seems both an anachronism and a source of isolation. "The world doesn't need a neutral Switzerland anymore," says Frank Meyer, publisher of the Ringier Press Group. Remembering Switzerland's dark past may have served the unintended purpose of preparing the nation for the future...
...word you never hear about Albright is imagination. Yet those who complain she lacks a grand strategy to subdue a messy post-cold war world may be missing the point about Albright. "I really do think that strategic thinkers who never adjust their strategy or their thinking are not useful," she says. "I've tried to have my conceptual ideas, but it doesn't do any good to have those if you can't make them happen...
...history of the Franco-American relationship has been one of broad mood swings from mutual admiration to mutual acrimony. Both countries claim to embody universal ideals of liberty and human rights, making them kindred souls in terms of shared values but sharp rivals as global role models. Washington's post-cold war ability to throw its weight around often smacks of intimidation and diktat to the proud Gauls. France's response, along with periodic crowings about its own importance, has been to unite Europe as a counterweight to U.S. domination...