Quotes by Greg Grandin - Page 2

'Toughness' and 'credibility' are leitmotifs that run through both Trumpian and Kissingerian deal-making. Both men insist that war and diplomacy are inseparable and that, to be effective, diplomats need to be able to wield threats and offer incentives in equal, unrestricted measure.
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Credibility
Diplomacy
Diplomats
Incentives
Inseparable
Toughness
Effective
Measure
Threats
Wield
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Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back.
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Anti War
Betray
Wilson
Slogan
Campaign
War Men Fight
Coalition
Wars
Re-Election
Redeem
Supporters
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In the 1960s, as a rising defense intellectual, Kissinger was a Nelson Rockefeller man, firmly entrenched in the center-right establishment. When he attended the infamous 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, he was horrified by Goldwater supporters, whom he likened to fascists.
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Defense
Establishment
Fascists
Infamous
Nelson
Rising
San Francisco
Attended
Convention
Entrenched
Firmly
Francisco
Horrified
Rockefeller
San
Supporters
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Such is the nature of the 'unity government' Clinton helped institutionalize. In her book, 'Hard Choices,' Clinton holds up her Honduran settlement as a proud example of her trademark clear-eyed, 'pragmatic' foreign policy approach. Berta Caceres gave her life to fight that government.
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Clinton
Foreign Policy
Pragmatic
Settlement
Unity
Holds
Trademark
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In the early 1800s, both Spain and Portugal disseminated the smallpox vaccine throughout the Americas via the 'arm to arm of the blacks,' that is, enslaved Africans and African-Americans, often children, who were being moved along slave routes as cargo from one city to another to be sold.
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Cargo
Moved
Portugal
Routes
Slave
Smallpox
Spain
African
Americas
Arm
Blacks
Enslaved
Sold
Throughout
Vaccine
Via
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations.
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Columbus
Conquest
Creating
Dominican Republic
Genocide
Haiti
Military
Modern World
Republic
Revolution
War History World
Island
Imperial
Occupations
Signal
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If all Henry Kissinger contributed to the Middle East were a regional arms race, petrodollar addiction, Iranian radicalization, and the Tehran-Riyadh conflict, it would be bad enough. His legacy, however, is far worse than that: He has to answer for his role in the rise of political Islam.
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Addiction
Arms
Arms Race
Conflict
Iranian
Islam
Legacy
Middle East
Rise
Henry
Regional
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In particular, Kissinger was a key player during a transformative period of the imperial presidency, in the 1960s and '70s, when the Vietnam War undermined the traditional foundations on which it had stood since the early years of the Cold War: elite planning, bipartisan consensus, and public support.
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Bipartisan
Cold War
Consensus
Planning
Presidency
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Early Years
Elite
Foundations
Imperial
Public Support
Stood
Transformative
Undermined
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Like Hillary Clinton in the United States, Kuczynski is a prototypical member of the trans-American governing class, with deep roots in both the private and public sector and its revolving-door relationship between Washington think tanks, the State Department, and high-level Latin American ministries.
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Relationship
Class
Clinton
Department
Governing
Latin
Latin American
Public Sector
Roots
Tanks
United States
Public
Washington
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Member
Private
Sector
State Department
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Most students of Kissinger find it hard to say anything about Kissinger that isn't about the man himself. He is such an outsize figure that he eclipses his own context, leading his many biographers, critics, and admirers to focus nearly exclusively on the quirks of his personality or his moral failings.
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Critics
Focus
Moral
Admirers
Nearly
Context
Failings
Figure
Himself
Leading
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The CIA's always-useful World Fact book says that a staggering 6.3 million Colombians have been internally displaced (IDP) since 1985, with 'about 300,000 new IDPs each year since 2000,' the year Bill Clinton enacted Plan Colombia. Added up, that's 2.4 million people during Clinton's eight-year presidency.
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Cia
Clinton
Colombia
Presidency
Staggering
World People New
Added
Bill Clinton
Displaced
Each Year
Million People
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A new book by 'New York Times' reporter Charlie Savage, 'Power Wars,' suggests that there has been little substantive difference between George W. Bush's administration and Obama's when it comes to national-security policies or the legal justifications used to pursue regime change in the Greater Middle East.
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Legal
Administration
Charlie
East
Greater
Middle
Middle East
New York Times
Pursue
Obama
Bush
Wars
Reporter
George
George W
New Book
Policies
Regime
Savage
Substantive
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The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time - of one thing preceding another - the effort to establish causality is a mug's game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.
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Causality
Infinite
Mug
Reasoning
Regression
Concept
Establish
Increasingly
Philosophers
Physicists
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Is Donald Trump a fascist? It's an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary over the past few months, with the best answers situating Trumpian illiberalism within America's long history of racial oppression, slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the ongoing backlash to the loss of white privilege.
Greg Grandin /
America
Answers
Apartheid
Backlash
Commentary
Crow
Insightful
Interesting
Jim Crow
Loss
Months
Ongoing
Oppression
Privilege
Trump
White
Within
Donald
Donald Trump
Fascist
Few
Jim
Long History
Question
Racial
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Within days of Richard Nixon's inauguration in January 1969, national-security adviser Kissinger asked the Pentagon to lay out his bombing options in Indochina. The previous president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, had suspended his own bombing campaign against North Vietnam in hopes of negotiating a broader cease-fire.
Greg Grandin /
Adviser
Bombing
Inauguration
January
Johnson
Negotiating
Pentagon
Suspended
Vietnam
Asked
Broader
Campaign
Hopes
Lay
Lyndon
Nixon
North
North Vietnam
Options
Previous
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Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.
Greg Grandin /
Health
Apartheid
Black
Dark
Documents
Experimentation
Experiments
Public Health
Slave
Smallpox
Now
Much
American
Black Americans
Colonial
Public
Washington
Emerged
Times
Fact
Harriet
His
In Fact
Jefferson
Present
Performed
Slaves
System
Thomas
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Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, which installed Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. But it was Kissinger who, in 1972, greatly deepened the relationship between Washington and Tehran.
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Critical
Involvement
Peacock
Prime
Prime Minister
Tehran
Coup
Democratically
Elected
Greatly
Histories
Joint
Minister
Rightly
Throne
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President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.
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Adviser
Arabia
Baghdad
Clear
Consensus
Desert
Enormous
Foreign Policy
Policy
Saddam
Saudi Arabia
Troops
Among
Attack
Bush
Contain
Exactly
George
Liberate
Operation
Saudi
Sending
Shield
Soon
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Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future.
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Bondage
Peculiar
States
Since
Began
Future Past Mind
Nation
Defend
Define
Early
Rest
Future Mind Past
Institution
Relic
Phrase
Soon
Southerners
Suggested
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It is a job requirement of U.S. envoys to El Salvador to be skilled in the art of the threat. And Aponte, named ambassador in 2010, is a pro. In particular, she's been tasked with making sure the former insurgent FMLN, which first won the presidency in 2009 and was reelected in 2014, reconciles itself to neoliberal reality.
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El Salvador
Former
Insurgent
Presidency
Ambassador
Named
Requirement
Salvador
Skilled
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Beyond institutional amnesia, a rejection of causal analysis is the existential rock on which American Exceptionalism sits. The United States unique sense of itself depends on an ambiguous relationship to the past. History is affirmed, since it is America's unprecedented historical success that justifies the exceptionalism.
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Ambiguous
Amnesia
Depends
Existential
Rejection
Unique
Causal
Institutional
Justifies
Past History
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The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.
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Enormous
Expensive
Flattered
Iran
Middle East
Oil
Dealt
Henry
Richard
Increasingly
Nixon
Reserve
Richard Nixon
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Kissinger's unusually high body count and singular moral imperiousness has the effect, among his critics, of obscuring his didactic utility. An outsized personality who has committed outsized mayhem, Kissinger eclipses his own context. Yet, as animals were to the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, Kissinger is good to think with.
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Committed
Critics
Didactic
Mayhem
Moral
Utility
Among
Animals
Anthropologist
Context
Count
Effect
Singular
Unusually
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On April 14, 1986, when the Reagan administration launched an airstrike on Libya in clear violation of international law, Kissinger did the rounds on news shows to justify the bombing. The day after the bombing, Kissinger appeared on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to voice his 'total support.' Attacking Libya, he said, was 'correct' and 'necessary.'
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Good Morning
Administration
April
Attacking
Bombing
International Law
Justify
Libya
Rounds
Violation
Abc
Good Morning Day
Appeared
Correct
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