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ChapterTwQ
TheKaleidoscopeofAmericanForeignPolicy
I.WalterLippmann,ThePublicPhilosophy(Boston:Little,Brown,1955),p.20.
2.GovernorRonaldReagangavethePanamaCanalissuespecialprominencedur-
ingthe 1976 presidentialprimaries.HeaccusedtheFordAdministrationofmaintain-
inga "mouselikesilence" inthefaceof"blackmail"fromPanama's"dictator."He
repeatedlyuseda lineguaranteedtogetapplause:"WhenitcomestotheCanal,we
builtit,wepaidforii,it'sours,andweshouldtellTorrijosandCompanythatweare
goingtokeepit!"Reagan'spositionappealedtomanyAmericans,becausehepresented
theissue,simplistically,asa testofournation'spowerandgreatness.Fordlaterbelieved
helostseveralprimariestoReaganoverPanama.(JimmyCarter,KeepingFaith:Memoirs
ofaPresident[NewYork:BantamBooks,1982},p.154.)
3.AnthonyLewis,"AbroadatHome;WeDidItRight,"NwYorkTimes,Septem-
ber30,1994,sec.A,p. 3 I.
4.InsteadofNicaragua:StrategicTrendsTowardsthe21stCentury:EconomicandPoliti-
calChallenges(KualaLumpur:MalaysianStrategicResearchCentre,1995),p.13.
5·Ibid.,p. 9
6.Ibid.,p. 6
7.EricAlterman,WhoSpeaksforAmerica?:WhyDemocracyMattersinForeignPolicy
(Ithaca,N.Y:CornellUniversityPress,1998).
8.PatRobertson,TheNwWorldOrder(Dallas,Texas:WordPublishing,1991),
p.6.

9. NoamChomsky,"HumanRights"andAmerican ForeignPolicy(Nottingham,
   England:SpokesmanBooks,1978),p.10.
   10.Ibid.,p.78.
   II.RemarksbyJohn].Sweeney,January22,1998,deliveredattheNationalUni-
   versityofMexico,CiudadUniversitaria,Mexico.
   12.StephenE.Ambrose,ed.,Nixon:TheTriumphofa Politician1962-1972(New
   York:Simon&Schuster,1989),p.259.
   13.IrvingKristol,ReflectionsofaNeoConservative:LookingBack,LookingAhead(New
   York:BasicBooks,1983),p.227.
   14.MuhammadMahathirandShintaroIshihara,"No"toieruAjia(TheAsiathatcan
   say"no")(Tokyo:Koubunsha,1994).
   15.Jean-JacquesServan-Schreiber,TheAmericanChallenge(LeDeftamericain)(New
   York:Atheneum,1968).
   16.ConradBlack,"Britain'sAtlanticOption-andAmerica'sStake," National
   Interest 55 (Spring1999),pp.21-22.
   17.Citedinatleastthreeplaces:DerekH.Davis,DallasMorningNws,November
   II,1995,p.4G;JamesWarren,ChicagoTribune,September16,1993,p.2.;essayby
   RobertStone,"UncleSamDoesn'tWantYou!"NwYorkReviwofBooks,September23,
   1993,p.22.
   18.RichardM.N.ixontoH.R.Haldeman(audiotape,June23,1972).Alsocitedin
   1,91i BestThingsAnybodyEverSaid,RobertByrne,ed.(NewYork,N.Y:Fawcett-
   Columbine,1988).
   19.AccordingtotheBostonHistoricalSocietyandMuseum,theteawasa blendof
   DarjeelingandCeylonblackteasfromSriLanka.
   20.RalphWaldoEmerson,"EssayVII:Politics"inEssays(NewYork:ThomasY
   CrowellCompany,1926),p.412.