Few Americans had even heard of East Timor before it emerged as a global hotspot in the 1990s. But the East Timorese knew much about the United States, whose navy had taken an interest in the submarine-friendly deep-water channel to its north.
A Matter of Small Consequence
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Tragedy of East Timor
By Jerry Sweeney
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the Summer 2002 issue of The Independent Review.
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