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IMPERIAL COURTS
MPERIAL COURTS
 
2The master no longer says, "You shall think as I do or you shall die". But he says: "You are freeto think differently from me and to retain your life, your property, and all that you possess, but youare henceforth a stranger among your people. You may retain your civil rights, but they will beuseless to you, for you will never be chosen by your fellow citizens if you solicit their votes; andthey will affect to scorn you if you ask for their esteem. You will remain among men, but you willbe deprived of the rights of mankind. Your fellow creatures will shun you like an impure being;and even those who believe in your innocence will abandon you, lest they should be shunned intheir turn. Go in peace! I have given you your life, but it is an existence worse than death.”ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
 
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February twenty-eighth, nineteen ninety-one marks theend of the Vietnam syndrome. Outside the red room window,a brass band from Texas plays Offenbach’s Gendarmes duetfrom the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli
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Athalf past midnight, blitzkrieg accompanies the president’sdeclaration of an end to bloodshed. The aerial targetfield and state-of-the-art weapons ensure precisionconflict and minimal collateral. Cobra attack helicoptersequipped with one hundred fifty-five millimeter howitzersshoot Kawasaki front-end loaders, a school bus, a Mercedessupply truck. Coalition warplanes drop cluster bombs overthe Persian Gulf, the shrapnel raining down in Apollonianarrowheads through sisal fiber targets. The US NavySilverfox bombing squadron flies ten close air support
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