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(Archived document, may contain errors) Iniroduction: Orchestrating Washington's Voice to Beijing By Andrew B. Brick Like any aspect of American foreign policy formulation, U.S.-China policy results from the elaborate interplay of national security concerns, bureaucratic interests and perspectives, public constituencies, and ind ividual opinions. The policy-making process, moreover, is complicated and often works at cross-purposes.

Antiwar.com Original The False Promise of Universal National Serviceby Doug Bandow Posted on War fires the imagination, especially of those who never suffered its horrors. Washington, D.C.’s faux heroes find nothing so courageous as sending other people off to fight and die in one grand cause or another. Of course, some professionals glory in death and gore, such as World War II’s Gen. George S. Patton. In his infamous speech to the Third Army he declared: "Men, all this stuff you hear about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans l...