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The two authors of the New Yorker article, Jane Mayer and Alexandra Robbins, buttress their insult to the governor's privacy with a backhanded compliment.
Where Gaddis does look at the breach between Tito and Stalin, it is to buttress his case that as democrats, the Americans were far more relaxed about managing alliance politics than Stalin was.
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.
Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson also quote Scripture during the segment to buttress their arguments, apparently from memory.
To buttress internal opposition, the allies should restore Radio Free Iraq, end the Kurdish civil war in the north, and indict him as a war criminal.