It really does seem like the US senior leadership is struggling to correlate their desire to influence events with the means to do so. If the point of this whole exercise was to oblige the Russians to commit to an Arabic Angola, though, perhaps something went according to plan.
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"We're not innovating. We're selectively imitating." June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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