The Message is the Message

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reports news that should be surprising, but isn't. After all, consistency is an
easier policy than rampant exceptionalism.

Not long ago, I criticized the US government for its silent response to an
anti-democratic href="http://www.oxblog.blogspot.com/2005_02_06_oxblog_archive.html#110807441900309619"
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d'etat in Togo. Thus, I am indebted to JT for pointing out that the US has
now cut off all military assistance to Togo and endorsed the tough sanctions
imposed by the regional organization known as ECOWAS. After my initial
criticism of the administration, one liberal realist chided me for assuming
that this President literally intended to promote democracy across the globe.
... Yet it seemed that the White House has surprised all of us.