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...have promised to help defend this small and valiant nation. Strengthened by that promise, the people of South Viet Nam have fought for many long years. Thousands of them have died. Thousands more have been crippled and scarred by war. And we just cannot now dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and who trusted us to the terror and repression and murder that would follow...
Reagan suggested that "either we accept the responsibility for our own destiny or we abandon the American Revolution." As for Communism abroad, he argued: "The specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face is that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and appeasement does not give you a choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender." He concluded with a ringing call to responsibility. "Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the Pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns...
This is Le Carré's dark point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...
...entrusted with peacekeeping in the world whether it likes the idea or not. "No empire," said Fairlie, "can contract and hope to survive. It must either be strenuously maintained or disintegrate. No empire, it follows, can selectively withdraw from its frontiers without inviting another empire to advance. America cannot abandon her responsibilities in any one part of the world without sacrificing them elsewhere. An empire does not exist apart from the will at the center, and that will cannot be shown to be weak in one area without its being assumed to be weak elsewhere...
...Handsome Apple. St. Thomas Aquinas, the most profound thinker of the Middle Ages, declared that contraception "does injury to God." Nonetheless, says Noonan, the Scholastic theologians of the 13th century also began to abandon Augustine's grim view that sex apart from procreation was sinful. Aquinas' mentor, St. Albert the Great, tentatively proposed that sexual intercourse, since it was ordained by God, might have a value in itself. And while Renaissance churchmen still denounced contraception, a few pioneering thinkers were beginning to talk about the human values of sex. In the 15th century, Martin le Maistre of Paris...