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It was exactly 31 years ago, if you’re reading this on Wednesday evening, that I stood on Tiananmen Square and watched the People’s Liberation Army open fire on the crowd I was in. I’ll never forget the fear and fury that I felt, and the entire Western world responded with similar outrage — except for a real estate developer in New York named Donald Trump. He was impressed that China showed its “strength.”
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So my column argues that it’s not surprising that today President Trump proposes to use troops to quell domestic unrest, or that his administration used rubber bullets to disperse peaceful, lawful protesters who had as much moral right to be there as he did — so he could get a photo op.
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Trump apparently was embarrassed at the disclosure that he had fled to an underground bunker during the Washington protests, and he seems to be trying to compensate by showing his toughness. Sigh. When you’ve seen the ugliness of war, you try to avoid unnecessary conflict. Summoning heavily armed forces for a civil disturbance is something, I argue in my column, that an old man does when he feels insecure because he claimed heel spurs to dodge the draft and now wants to prove his manhood. Please read.
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