On April 4, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defense contractor placed an advertisement in newspapers here and around the nation. The advertisement featured a picture of a police patrol car on a freeway, followed by a lot of obviously scrupulously driven cars. The text of the advertisement said:
Notice how people obey traffic laws when there’s a patrol car in sight? That’s the idea behind NATO. Nothing maintains order like the presence of authority. It keeps children from snitching cookies. Adults from running red lights. And it keeps peace among nations.
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