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...already obsolete, that the 600-ship Navy is a relic of World War II thinking and that military readiness has not improved noticeably in the Weinberger era. They also charge that in his haste to "rearm America," Weinberger has often let hardware dictate strategy, with a resulting surfeit of gold-plated weapons systems. Indeed, instead of getting a firm grip on the procurement process, Weinberger has, if anything, given more leeway to the Joint Chiefs. Says one longtime acquaintance of Weinberger's: "The service chiefs simply run circles around...
...provided us with so many choices as consumers that choices no longer have consequences or indeed meaning: "the freedom to choose amounts in practice to an abstention from choice." This seems doubtful. Are we, in fact, dying as a nation, as a culture, or as individuals from a surfeit of technological riches? Perhaps death from such causes is more common in Lasch's circle than in one's own. Perhaps, indeed, Lasch's acquaintances perish under the stress of the suggestion that industrial technology may jeopardize our political system. Lasch darkly intones that...
...weapons as parts of a single negotiating equation, together with emerging space-based weapons. The technical complexity of the talks would be increased, yet the comprehensive approach offers considerable advantages: negotiators would be able to barter the putative U.S. edge in space weaponry, for instance, directly with the Soviet surfeit in ICBM megatonnage...
...thing in politics is to be taken for granted, to be predictable, to allow people to put you in a box." To keep the pundits guessing, he calls himself a "bleeding-heart conservative" and a "small l, small d liberal democrat." With a John F. Kennedy haircut and a surfeit of vigor, Kemp is the only member of the House who has built a truly national following. No one, however, has been elected directly from the House to the presidency since James Garfield...
...lighter moments of his extensive, eventful career from his meetings with kings to his hobnobbing with presidents. The book can justly be criticized for an excess of fluttery, for dwelling on the transient rather than the substantial Daniel doesn't care. He says there has been a "surfeit" of overly serious books. "The world is not waiting for my opinions," he adds. "But, I've met a lot of interesting people and in the process have acquired humorous stories--some revealing and some devastating. I just didn't want to get involved with the controversy...