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...Rumsfeld?s original plan - reportedly, spend twice the extra $18.5 billion the White House sent the Pentagon?s way - certainly would have made all those choices easier to stomach. As it is, Bush?s earmarked funds went to missile defense and status-quo basics like parts and equipment and improved living standards for soldiers, and the disagreements between the military establishment?s soldiers and civilians became measurably sharper. And Rumsfeld is on the brink of a choice that - at least for the time being - has little or no chance of making its way into the field...
...Come September, Rumsfeld will probably try to navigate some middle ground between the status-quo and force reduction, find some way to reduce the perceived strategic demands of the current world, and put out a plaintive recommendation for more troop and weapons-system cuts that Congress will declare dead before it ever hits the Hill...
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...benefit from an Asian-led attempt to make the international monetary system more responsive to the Europe of today, rather than of the Bretton Woods-era. What is needed are some meaningful initiatives and a willingness to talk back to Washington. The alternatives are to stagnate with the status quo, or retreat into controls and protectionism unworthy of Asian success. That requires countries to appreciate the potential of one another's currencies: not the leaden coin of the geriatric Old World...
...that, cops and soldiers have the excuse they need. The tables are turned and the dissidents' legitimacy may migrate over to the authorities. Violent protest that makes the cops look like victims is a sucker's game; the demonstrators might as well be on the payroll of the status quo. For in such circumstances, the general public - the sacred "People" in whose name the protesters claim to act - tends to support the cops. I remember standing on Michigan Avenue, outside the Hilton, that night at the Democratic convention in 1968, when the police cut loose against the anti-war demonstrators...