Why Do We Take It?

In many spots about the world we are in bad trouble no matter what we do. Southeast Asia is the prime example of the moment. The alternatives there are few and simple, but they are all appalling. Whether we get out, go in all the way, or continue to try somehow to hang on, there is lots of unhappiness ahead. So also in central and southern Africa: some courses of action look worse than others, but all are plenty bad. So it is, too, in relation to Cyprus, Egypt, Indonesia and Cuba.

But there is one foreign part where our troubles do not arise out of unavoidable features of the situation in which we find ourselves, but are self-imposed and unnecessary; where they could be ended in an hour.

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In many spots about the world we are in bad trouble no matter what we do. Southeast Asia is the prime example of the moment. The alternatives there are few and simple, but they are all appalling. Whether we get out, go in all the way, or continue to try somehow to hang on, there is lots of unhappiness ahead. So also in central and southern Africa: some courses of action look worse than others, but all are plenty bad. So it is, too, in relation to Cyprus, Egypt, Indonesia and Cuba.

But there is one foreign part where our troubles do not arise out of unavoidable features of the situation in which we find ourselves, but are self-imposed and unnecessary; where they could be ended in an hour.