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When he met for 35 minutes with Castro at the Vatican late in 1996, the Pope did not wag his finger or lecture the revolutionary Comandante. Instead, he listened. He let the eternally voluble Fidel talk. He treated him with the respect Castro craves. And he disarmed Fidel. Not only did the Cuban leader at long last issue the invitation for a pastoral trip, but also he gushed afterward about "the strong emotional impact" of their meeting, calling it a "miracle." He sang praises to the Pope's "greatness" and his "brilliant intellect...
...taking these threats seriously and are mobilizing millions of Iraqis in preparation," said Monday's front-page editorial in the Baath paper Al-Thawra. Saddam won't have seen "Wag the Dog" yet, but he already knows what a welcome distraction bombing raids on his country provide for the White House...
...hates to step out of his idiom, but he likes to help any way he can. We learn from Mike McCurry that the Prez has a movie planned for Saturday night. We bet we know what it is. Wag the Dog, as you may have heard, is practically showing on the news these days. The pithier and very funny version, however, is at theaters now, and it may well be affecting our foreign policy at this sensitive juncture...
...going to happen this week, which is unfortunate for those tempted to introduce the "Wag the Dog" analogy -- a president bedeviled by scandal turning to war as a diversion. However, adds Dowell, "the pieces are clearly falling into place for a confrontation...
...matter how ridiculous the concept seems, we realize by the end of Wag the Dog that delusion of the masses on a grand scale is a brutally realistic possibility. The media has the power to whip up an emotional whirlwind so powerful that all of America gets trapped in the show. It is the concept, after all, that makes the disaster movies which studio execs love so deplorably viable. Audiences are bludgeoned with an onslaught of nifty special effects and pounded into submission. Who is to say politics is not the same...