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...close it down for an indefinite period by lobbing a few hand grenades into lock machinery. Says a top British military expert: "The whole history of the years of decolonization since 1945 has shown that however big the army you deploy, you cannot win against a hostile population and terrain???which in Panama means taking on a population of 2 million and 50 miles of jungle plus 1,000 miles of semitropical hell." Adds a senior British diplomat: "A U.S. strategy of holding on to the Canal Zone by force would be tantamount to following a strategy devised in Moscow...
Indeed, though the man is an enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla, the work is beautifully lucid. Castaneda's story unfolds with a narrative power unmatched in other anthropological studies. Its terrain???studded with organ-pipe cacti, from the glittering lava massifs of the Mexican desert to the ramshackle interior of Don Juan's shack?becomes perfectly real. In detail, it is as thoroughly articulated a world as, say, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In all the books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves...
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