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The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind

By Chris Barsanti

Unfortunately, as Suskind relates, the mistakes caused by Cheney's doctrine -- a strange mix of interventionist brio and isolationist no-nothing-ism -- would begin to backfire on the actors almost immediately. And so came the torture. [14 August 2006]