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Hegemonic Stability
Sunday, April 11, 2004
 
Lessons from the 911 Commission.

It is Vietnam Deja Vu all over gain as Yogi would say. We are back to the Nixon days. The Democrats trot out their heroes from their greatest triumph: Watergate Richard Benveniste harasses Condaleeza Rice. It was a long time ago, but wasn't the Church committee castrating the CIA inreaction to the Nixon administration using the intelligence agency to investigate Vietnam protestors like John Kerry and Jane Fonda. The bureacratic over reaction to prior overzealousness was the erection of a Chinese Wall which blinded us and allowed Al Queda to sneak past our defenses.
 
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