A nation must think before it acts.
Mark Falcoff is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, contributing editor of Orbis , and author of many books and articles on the Southern Cone republics, including Modern Chile, 1970–89: A Critical History (Transaction Publishers, 1989) and A Tale of Two Policies: U.S. Relations with the Argentina Junta, 1976–83 (Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1989).