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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 12:00 AM

The foreign policy community

America's bipartisan foreign policy orthodoxies and their scholar-guardians are in desperate need of challenge.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2007 11:25 AM

    People and mandarins

    Well, we will talk about such things, and we will vote, whether the mandarins like it or not. Their pole star may be American military power, and our willingness to use it, but ours is not. (I think that's what you call democracy. Everyone gets a ticket to the Disneyland of political discourse, and an E-ticket at that.)

    —William Timberman Read William Timberman's other letters

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