That single quality of Putin was more important to Yeltsin than protecting democracy, free speech, market economics, or a host of other liberal reforms which Yeltsin himself had already begun dismantling back in 1993, when he bombed the rebel parliament with tanks.
It's a bleak landscape, to be sure, but it's not unlike the one horror movies tried to dismantle back when the seeds of modern workout culture were sown nearly 40 years ago.
And then it was dismantled, vanishing back into the imagination.
As the Allies advanced, the Paris Gun was dismantled, taken back to Germany and destroyed.
It was dismantled, moved back and redesigned to fit a much smaller space.
Once that's constructed it will be dismantled, brought back to Washington and re-assembled.
So today, as a summer "best of TomDispatch" pick, I've offered one of Johnson's last piece's for the site, "Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire," his call for the U.S. to begin dismantling what, back in 2004, he first termed our "empire of bases," those perhaps 1,000 or more garrisons, mega to micro, still scattered around the planet a decade later.
The house was about to be sold, and its distinctive flourishes — the casket outside, the skate ramp out back — dismantled.
The plane itself was dismantled and sent back to the United States only on July 3, after months of acrimonious negotiation.
After a final military vigil on October 9th the wall of names at Bastion was dismantled and transported back to Britain.
