Shelton: N. Korea preparing for war
<< North Korea continues to strengthen its military and has deployed most of its troops near the border to prepare for a war against South Korea, the U.S. military chief of staff says.
In a statement to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense on Tuesday, General Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pyongyang has deployed the majority of its more than 1 million North Korean soldiers near the demilitarized zone and Seoul. He said the tensions from this deployment has been exacerbated by Pyongyang's nuclear and missile program. >>
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Clinton And Machiavellianism
<< A year ago last week, President Bill Clinton gave an interview to several of us from The Washington Post...At the end of the interview, he stood before the fireplace in the Oval Office and recited to us a passage from Machiavelli's "The Prince."' - David Broder, The Washington Post, Monday, May 16, 1994.
Needless to say, I was intrigued when I opened up a 1982 edition of Funk Wagnall's Dictionary and read the definition of Machiavellianism:
"n. The theory and practice of power politics elaborated from Machiavelli's The Prince: envisaging:
( 1 ) seizure, maintenance, and extension of absolute power by the nicely graduated use of guile, fraud, force, and terror;
( 2 ) control by the ruler of all avenues of communication, thus facilitating the deliberate molding of public opinion;
( 3 ) the employment for surveillance and terrorist activities of subordinates who can be disowned and liquidated by the ruler, who thus escapes the blame for their atrocities." >>
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