Most Americans don't know it, but the US has a new national security strategy. It is set down in a 52-page White House paper, dated May 27, which lists US interests and ways to protect them. Unfortunately, the thing instantly calls to mind Dr. Samuel Johnson's words about the epic Paradise Lost: "None ever wished it longer than it is."rnThe paper has a leaden style, composed, according to one critic, of "platitudes, wishful thinking, and self-delusion." What Mark Twain once said of a certain religious book-"It is chloroform in print"-applies here, too.
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