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whistle-stopping through somebody else’s country,
usually ours.
Washington has still not adjusted to this third-man
role. It keeps forgetting that anything said here may be
used by one side or another in some election campaign,
and that it may, by accident, be the decisive element in
the final vote.
If the cold war in 1964 is being fought by informational
technology, that is because all wars have been fought by the
latest technology available in any culture. In one of his sermons
John Donne commented thankfully on the blessing of heavy
firearms:
So by the benefit of this light of reason they have
found out Artillery , by which warres come to quicker ends