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...thought I was referring to America, try looking at Sudan. Or China. Or Cuba. Or Burma, Haiti, Libya, Uganda, Congo, Vietnam, Liberia, Pakistan, Syria, Laos, Rwanda, and North Korea. As of 2002, these countries all ranked below zero in their polity scores, which measure the degree of democracy minus autocracy...
However, this is not the first time America and the world has faced this dismal situation. Lyndon Johnson’s pursuit of the Vietnam War and the election of Nixon created a similar situation. What is needed from American students now is something similar to what the students did then. That is, to organize themselves across America and, without succumbing to the extreme radicalism that marked that era, take action to do the good things that the Bushites will not do, such as: reversing the despoilment of the environment, ensuring that large corporations, in particular drug companies...
...Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam...
Perhaps the riskiest bet he's making, however, is on domestic manufacturing. New Balance is the only major U.S. sneaker brand still manufacturing in America; most others have fled to China, Indonesia and Vietnam. Roughly 25% of New Balance shoes are assembled at five factories in New England and one in California owned by a foreign supplier. Over the past two years Davis has spent $14 million to upgrade a high-tech shoe plant down the road from his Boston office, and in 2001 he expanded his distribution center in the old mill town of Lawrence, Mass. Davis figures...
Greene responded defensively to criticism of his coverage of the Vietnam War in his 1955 novel The Quiet American, claiming, “the New Yorker reviewer condemned me for accusing my ‘best friends’ [the Americans] of murder since I had attributed to them the responsibility for the great [bomb]…But [the facts] are the facts…[and] perhaps there is more direct rapportage in The Quiet American than in any other [of my] novels...