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U.S. empire abroad found its replica in the War on Crime at home: to break the political syzygy of an authoritarian state apparatus in Sacramento or Saigon

This was Forrestal’s bailiwick.

There is a quasi-religious overtone to all of this—everything in the past has been moving toward a telos, a predestined end.

there was some element of copper in the roofs that had given them a sheen of verdigris over time, as if they were slowly reintegrating with the organic environment

I evidently project a certain tabula rasa quality