Reagan-era baristas ready to serve:
For all the world, it could be November 1986—a doddering, lame-duck president who will duck impeachment by making nice to Congress, a man in Nicaragua the Bushies just don’t like, a quiet Republican poised to take the helm of an agency worn to ruin by a too-secretive predecessor, an Iran in the offing, getting stronger and bolder daily, despite previous foot-stompings. Who said that when we are condemned to repeat history, it comes to us the second time as farce?
Often cited as Marx, but he claims Hegel was the originator.[*]
So this is progress. We are recycling Reagan-era cronies, the Mideast and Central America are still regarded as sandboxes to meddle in.