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The WTO and its defenders argue that the regimes and laws mowed down by global capitalism are more often corrupt than enlightened--in short, that capitalism is an improvement.
Nixon detractors say the desultory comments about raising money were the operative (as they used to say) part of the conversation; Nixon defenders (of which I, as director of the Nixon library, of course am one) stress that the president said it would be wrong and that (if memory serves) "the White House can't do it."
Clinton's spokesmen have learned to brush off Republican critics of engagement by quoting the policy's Republican defenders.
As it turned out, the NEADS air defenders had nine minutes' notice on the first hijacked plane, no advance notice on the second, no advance notice on the third, and no advance notice on the fourth.
Defenders argue that it's less idiotic than the current Medicare policy of subsidizing physician training, which has exacerbated the surplus.