they're ADORABLE

Any good actor, and any reasonably intelligent 15-year old is a good enough actor, will hand this system it's ass, if he knows he is being watched, and maybe even if he doesn't know, some people are always dissembling when in public.

And any good politician will use it against them. Guys like Putin will have them screwing themselves before they know it.

And they don't listen. They think they already know everything, so they are incapable of learning. They latch onto one piece of technical voodoo after another.

And that's not even getting into the "errors".

anyone who *knew* anything about the regions in question was replaced with more fanatical and obedient types who'd Get the Job Done; the Pentagon and then even the CIA got sidestepped

Jeane Kirkpatrick said any local factors were neither important nor pertinent: the Latin American masses were incapable of becoming historical actors, currently trapped in an evolutionary "stage" of mere survival--so any unrest couldn't be a sign of popular discontent! those affected by a policy were the last people one should listen to

popular support for a rebellion, even under risk of death, was quite unthinkable, and nationalism or poverty were ignored; nothing was considered on its own terms--"the Soviet Union underlies all the unrest that is going on. If they weren’t engaged in this game of dominoes, there wouldn’t be any hot spots in the world"

any Third-World assertiveness was obviously a sign of Soviet advance; guerrillas, labor strikes, terrorism, drug trafficking, political dissension, peasant organization, Catholic Liberation Theology, and media criticism of U.S. foreign policy were all part of a coordinated global attack on U.S. values and security--on everything we are and stand for

Accuracy in Media claimed that Marxists control the U.S.’s media and universities and said John Lantigua got "live-in female Sandinista sex slaves in exchange for penning Sandinista agitprop"; US editors especially agreed that disinformation specialists in Managua” controlled the U.S. news and were behind any bad press; it's a “well-orchestrated effort” by a “worldwide communist network” that was controlling human-rights groups, the Catholic Church, and former Salvadoran officers

fortunately Reagan said that Roger Staubach would drive out any Nicaraguans taking Mexico and Texas

When people say, "We are the world" they really sometimes seem to confuse that with "everybody's just like us."

College-educated Europeans and Americans are not the world. The world keeps pointing this out in very clear terms, but somehow the college-educated Europeans and Americans keep missing the obvious in socially constructing their own reality.