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...that according to Pentagon sources, the latest scheme has elite Navy SEALs doing the initial dirty work. U.S. war plans then call for 4,000 troops from the aircraft carriers U.S.S. America and U.S.S. Eisenhower to move into and around Port-au-Prince, while 1,800 Marines from a "WASP" amphibious assault ship would secure Haiti's north. And those multinational forces? Caribbeans and others won't move in until everything's already peaceful: "This is an all-American show in the opening hours and the opening days," Thompson says.THE HAITIAN BATTLE PLAN? Haiti's elite troops aren't exactly...
...darker. "It meant," he recalls, "a certain awareness of everything most people were frightened of speaking of, or of admitting to knowing." No wonder then that hip unfolded largely through the work of the usual suspects -- not just blacks but also Jews, gays and a few disaffected Wasp refugees -- people whose view of things was off-center by definition...
...Marines and packs a tremendous wallop. The armada includes the Inchon, a helicopter carrier; the Portland and the Trenton, which can deliver troops to shore by boats and helicopters; and the Spartanburg County, designed to put tanks and other heavy equipment ashore. They join another helicopter carrier, the Wasp, with 650 Marines aboard, already stationed in the area. Along with combat-ready Marines, these vessels are crammed with an arsenal of armed helicopters, howitzers and armored vehicles. "Ships take days to get to Haiti, but airplanes take only hours," one war planner says. "With these ships in the neighborhood...
...history of our very real oppression as an excuse to deny our own racism toward blacks or Palestinians. In our frantic attempts to make it in America, we not only fixed our noses and straightened our hair and learned to talk more softly and genteelly to be acceptable to Wasp culture, but we also began to buy the racist assumptions of this society and to forget our own history of oppression. Jewish neoconservatives at Commentary magazine and Jewish neoliberals at the New Republic have led the assault on affirmative action (despite the fact that one of its greatest beneficiaries...
Race talk as bonding mechanism is powerfully on display in American literature. When Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby leaves West Egg to dine in fashionable East Egg, his host conducts a kind of class audition into WASP-dom by soliciting Nick's support for the "science" of racism. "If we don't look out the white race will be . . . utterly submerged," he says. "It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." It makes Nick uneasy, but he does not question or refute his host's convictions...