these two old pros genuinely [enjoy] sparring intellectually with each other. That [portends] a personal civility to ameliorate the usual State-Defense institutional hostility.
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
The Colin-Rummy Feud?
A couple of days earlier, William Safire put a different perspective on the so-called Powell-Rumsfeld spat, which has been portrayed in Europe as the evil war-loving neo-coms squishing out the life of the valiant and reasonable fellow peace activist ("fellow" to them, the Europeans). Safire, who has enjoyed the company of both (together), says that
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