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aggressively will dominate most of the people, even though their sympathies may lie in the other direction.” As in rational-choice theory more broadly applied, individuals are abstracted from larger social and cultural relations (exactly the kind described in rich detail by Menchú) and presented as maximizing units weighing and acting on narrow individual interests (exactly how Stoll portrays Vicente Menchú). For its origins in Vietnam, see Ron Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex