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Article: The spirit of '73: an ugly nostalgia sweeps the globe. (Rant).(Column)
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- February 1, 2003
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WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH selected mummified diplomat Henry Kissinger to head his investigation into pre-9/11 intelligence failures, he outraged everyone. The left blames Kissinger for extending the Vietnam War and instituting lethal realpolitik; the right blames him for losing the war and turning Nixon red. But there's a deeper message in seeing a bureaucrat three decades past his sell-by date get a new job--even one he resigned from almost immediately. All over the world, the keys of government are held by people for whom the world clock stopped sometime around 1973.
This collective nostalgia is widely dispersed. India thrives under the leadership of Atal Behari ...