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"..this meant that in Panama the US had killed as many people as did the Chinese government in its notorious attack on student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing six months earlier."

RIP Bozo: "Kissinger was quoted that April (by WaPo columnist Tom Braden) 'The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world that shows its determination to continue to be a world power."

"What seemed to bother him, and other liberals in the cold war consensus, was not that the United States was interfering in revolutionary movements in other countries, but that it was doing so unsuccessfully."

In short, if the entrance of the United States into WW2 was (as so many Americans believed at the time, observing the Nazi invasions) to defend the principle of nonintervention in the affairs of other countries, the nation's record cast doubt on its ability to uphold that principle."

"For the United States to step forward as a defender of helpless countries matched its image in American high school history textbooks, but not its record in world affairs."