Thus, VOA should have facilities to broadcast to China 24 hours a day instead of the usual 11, facilities strong enough to overcome jamming.
Ideas are potent.
This plus judicious sanctions may well prod Beijing to a reform path again after the current frenzy of bloody repression. Fossedal takes a refreshing look at the use of tools such as economic sanctions, international law, foreign aid, international broadcasting and the arming of guerrilla forces in other countries. The Democratic Imperative's best chapters are on the failures of Jimmy Carter in Nicaragua and Iran. The U.S.' distaste for Somoza and the Shah was not misplaced, Fossedal believes. Our big mistake was that, after encouraging removal of these authoritarian figures, the U.S. in effect took a powder, doing little to help the democratic forces in those two countries, which were stronger than recognized.