Giving Democracy a Bad Name

Whenever I see a book like James Traub's The Freedom Agenda (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008), the first thing I do is check the index to see what it has to say about East Timor. When I did that with Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning "A problem from hell" : America and the age of genocide (Basic Books, 2002), I found these now-notorious words:In 1975, when its ally, the oil-producing,