A Fine Eye For Tyrants
April, 1990
Two days before the U.S. invasion of Panama in December, the Bush Administration got caught red-handed in a brazen lie about its toadying courtship of Red China. Not only had George Bush's two top national-security aides just toasted the unrepentant Chinese leaders but they had secretly done the same thing in July, when the blood of Tiananmen Square was still fresh.Is it possible that diverting attention from this sorry episode was the real reason for the Panama invasion? If so, it worked: Democ...
