“One day it was lies, lies, lies, real old-school Saigon-style lies about how everything's fine…and then wham, we take Mazar-i-Sharif and it's a toboggan ride to Kabul.”
Gary Brecher at exile.ru/authors, 2002
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Context: Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.