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January 2021 |
". . . There is growing evidence that . . . Some of the funding for BLM and Antifa is coming from [Chinese Communist Party]-sponsored or affiliate groups. . . ." |
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November 2009 |
NATO once was a serious and capable military association with an important purpose. That no longer is the case, and there is little prospect that the process of decay can be reversed. |
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November 2007 |
"The Iranian mullahs consider intelligence and terrorism as very serious matters, and they handle it at the highest possible level.... Hezbollah never conducts a terrorist operation abroad without the clear authorization (if not direct order) of Tehran." |
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January 2012 |
"The U.S. took the Taliban out of government, but failed to remove its members from society. Now, America has to face the challenge of stopping the Taliban from turning the clock back on women." |
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January 2008 |
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom promises that his nation will hold fast in its support of a new Afghanistan. However, beyond Uncle Sam, who is willing to lend the beleaguered British a hand? |
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November 2006 |
Both nations "believe that peace and security are the foundations of any progress . . . that creating the right climate for economic growth . . . is the best way . . . to raise the finances needed to defeat poverty." |
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July 2005 |
"[U.S.] power was achieved at tremendous cost and sacrifice, frequently without good cause or lasting effect. . . . Episodic crusades have undermined America's international standing and power, and now divert its promise and national purpose." |
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January 2021 |
The term "strategic narcissism" best describes our nation's tendency to "define the world only in relation to [its] own aspirations and desires." |
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January 2004 |
"No one can say that major incidents never again will occur in the U.S., but successful attacks are much more difficult than people realize." |
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July 2017 |
"Trump has reestablished that the US will no longer pursue an apology tour, nor…retreat from the defense of its vital national interests. The contrast with the Obama Administration's constant flogging of the American ideal…could not be more profund" |
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July 2002 |
"The American commitment to the Saudi royal family is a moral blemish and a practical danger. It has already drawn the U.S. into one conventional war and has helped make Americans the tragets of terrorism. . . ." |
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September 2016 |
"…It seems highly doubtful that the UK will want--or be able--to adopt a significantly different approach [to economic crime, export sanctions and controls, health and safety, or the environment] at least for the forseeable future." |
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September 2015 |
"What started as small drips from many places has increased to a steady stream of young women disappreaing from their homes and and families to show up later as terrorist cadres." |
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May 2004 |
Is it possible for the beleaguered nations of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan to become beacons of success with the help of U.S. foreign intervention? |
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May 2001 |
"A few decades ago, developing nations often argued that pollution was the price of progress. The last several years, however, have brought an environmental awakening to most corners of the globe." |
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May 2006 |
"Preventing nuclear war arguably is the most important arena in which universal compliance is needed. This standard must apply not only to Iran, but to the U.S. and other nations." |
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January 2005 |
Security Council resolutions have "mobilized states for a campaign of nonmilitary cooperative law enforcement measures to combat global terrorism." |
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September 2001 |
"Although the threat to the U.S. should not be ignored, it does not justify the rush to deployment of national missile defense systems." |
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March 2011 |
"In that most basic sense, American progressives who look to Canada are wrong. Not only is Canada's path not a model for the U.S., it is not a viable model for Canada." |
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July 2017 |
"Some babies have dies horribly. How many will die, ostensibly, to avenge them?" |
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January 2020 |
"The Chinese are waging economical and financial warfare against us every day. We are in a position to prevail. The problem is that we have not seriously taken the field. In terms of our capital mistakes, we are not even at the stadium." |
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January 2001 |
". . . Guardians of ethnic interest may find it harder as time goes by to maintain militancy among their constituents." |
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September 2010 |
"A successful strategy in Afghanistan must be based on recognizing the military, economic, and tribal situation on the ground, instead of hoping to refight Desert Storm's 72-hour ground war." |
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November 2021 |
". . . Thinking about different configurations of power can help frame sharper questions about national purposes and priorities. . . . " |
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November 2014 |
". . . The seeds of democracy need soil and water--not just intent--to grow." |
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July 2006 |
"A full acceptance by the Israelis and Palestinians of the legitimate presence of the other and their right to exist in peace is a precondition that is unlikely to be accepted by either party any time soon." |
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March 2004 |
"Documents reveal highly secretive price-fixing operations that run rings around the Justice Department, Congress, and the White House. [The gems are moved] along clandestine routes used by drug barons and arms merchants." |
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May 2002 |
The sharing of weapons of mass destruction, endorsements of tyranny, long history of terror, promises of mutual support--all should be enough to establish clearly that these regimes plan to rely on their links w/ each other to carry out their evil designs |
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March 2021 |
Prisons most often are like the dark nights of the soul--rife with pain, hurt, rage, humiliation, isolation, revenge, and desperation--but rays of enlightenment shone on a medium-security prison in Chetumal, where hope for healing and rehabilitation lies. |
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May 2007 |
". . . U.S. policymakers need to absorb the larger lesson of the Iraqi debacle. Launching an elective war in pursuit of a nation-building chimera was an act of folly. It is a folly they should vow never to repeat in any other country." |
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March 2010 |
". . . We who created the Western way of war are very reluctant to resort to it due to post-modern cynicism, while those who did not create it are very eager to apply it due to pre-modern zealotry--and that is a very lethal combination." |
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November 2018 |
By joining violent extremism, females are committing selfish, senseless and sorrowful acts. Oddly, the ultimate goal for pious, practicing Muslims is the same as for Muslim extremists, only the latter use violence in hopes of securing a place in Paradise. |
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May 2021 |
"[The former Soviet Union] has become the first intelligence dictatorship in history - and few people know what that really means." |
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January 2022 |
". . . China's trade and economic policies are--and will remain--intertwined with concerns about geopolitics, human rights, and illiberalism." |
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September 2018 |
"The Interahamwe clubbed Consolée, Angélique, Florence, Illuminée, and Jeanne, then threw them all, still alive, into a nearby septic tank. 'They were screaming; they were calling us,' says [their sister] Rosette . . . Until she heard them no more." |
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May 2009 |
". . . With so much oil, gas, and money at stake in a world reeling from a deep global recession, the tensions between Russia and Georgia easily could escalate into a more serious conflict that would have universal consequences." |
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May 2022 |
"[COVID-19] was a bullet that was meant to be fired [by China], but likely was fired by mistake sooner than intended, at the wrong place, and in the wrong way." |
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September 2009 |
The terrorist organization has "experienced significant defections, lost key mobilization areas, suffered disruption of support infrastructure and funding, and [been] forced to change targeting priorities." |
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July 2018 |
Change in Sub-Saharan Africa must come from within. |
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July 2017 |
"[Russia's President] has yet to become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that is true even here." |
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September 2007 |
". . . The U.S. has at least six reasons for singling out Iran to halt its nuclear developent program--and it is past time that we spell them out to the world at large." |
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January 2014 |
"The irony of all this is that Iran's history and culture align its people more with the West than any Muslim nation other than Turkey." |
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January 2004 |
It may be time for the U.S. to cut its losses in the Middle East by accelerating the process of American troop withdrawal to coincide with the takeover by a sovereign interim Iraqi government. |
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March 2001 |
Americanadians--Vietnam War draft resisters who fled to Canada--speak out on the Persian Gulf and Kosovo conflicts. |
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January 2015 |
"The animal has awoken and only we have the power to tame it." |
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January 2014 |
Nelson Mandela, like Mahatma Gandhi, has left us a legacy that "we should empower the hunger and the weak so that they can learn to feed and strengthen themselves and contribute to the well being of others." |
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May 2008 |
"The best way to promote American security is restraint--a wise and masterly inactivity in the face of most foreign disorder. The U.S. should resurrect the notion that the best way to spread democracy is to model it." |
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March 2011 |
"All of this high-falutin' talk about the family of nations is silly academic claptrap unless we really see the familial in the nations: the kids, the teens, the abusive and the abused, the sociopaths and the decadent." |
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July 2021 |
". . . The U.S., and the West in general, have become almost unrecognizable from what they were not that long ago." |
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November 2020 |
"Pres. Donald Trump's often incomprehensible foreign policy . . . has changed the country and the world." |
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September 2015 |
"…You would have to go back to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I; the creation of the modern Middle East;the introduction of the League of Nations' mandates for Palestine; to find another time that was so turbulent." |
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September 2003 |
"As long as Israelis and Palestinians fear that cooperating with one another places their physical survival, political independence, and/or tenure in office at risk," the peace process cannot produce its desired result. |
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November 2015 |
"It commonly is suggested that the only solution is to stop the [migrant] movement at its source, but you cannot make Iraq or Syria into America." |
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July 2017 |
A former CIA agent, who was once charged with plotting to assassinate Saddam Hussein, shares narratives of his 40-year career as an intelligence and security specialist. |
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May 2005 |
"Situated in New York, the United Nations resides in the heart of the West, detached on a day-to-day basis from the troubles of the real world." |
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May 2003 |
"With a decade of hindsight, it is diffucult to find any evidence of a 'giant sucking sound' of jobs, investment, and manufacturing capacity heading south [to Mexico]." |
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March 2004 |
"Five specific areas where [the North Atlantic Treaty Organization] can play a greater role in bringing security and stability to the Middle East are Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Mediterranean, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." |
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January 2010 |
"The Administration is pursuing a policy that accurately can be described as neoisolationist--a policy characterized by an unwillingness to be assertive in the world in defense of the U.S.'s interests and those of our friends and allies." |
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March 2006 |
"Saudi Arabia is the key to containing the terrorist menace, assuring stability in the Gulf, and keeping the oil flowing at a reasonable price." |
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March 2002 |
"At the current rate of decline, experts estimate that, by the end of this century, at least one half of the world's languages will have disappeared. . . ." |
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January 2003 |
". . . With its dictatorship, a failed economy, and an insecure nuclear arsenal, [Pakistan] is at best a reluctant supporter of American goals and at worst a potential long-term adversary." |
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May 2002 |
"If the Bush Administration begins to go after groups that do not focus on American targets, it should expect an upsurge of retaliatory terrorist attacks on the U.S.--both abroad and at home." |
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January 2018 |
"Pres. Donald Trump . . . has been doing hs best to overthrow the system of international relations that has helped to spread democracy, avoid another Great Depression, and prevent a third world war." |
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November 2005 |
The media, prisons, the military, and academia are four key areas where the Saudi Government and its Wahhabi ideology have gained tremendous influence in the U.S. |
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March 2022 |
Big Digital is the communications, ideological & technological arm of an emerging corprate-socialist totalitarianism. Monopolistic corporations have a consolidated grip on the economy from above, while socialism advances for the rest of us from below. |
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July 2012 |
If we Americans cultivate our inner lives and our moral selves as industriously and productively as we cultivate the material world around us, then perhaps we of all peoples can long endure. |
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January 2002 |
Fifty years after the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed, there is a need for a recommitment by the two nations to work together to ensure the future security, economic prosperity, and political stability of the Asia Pacific region. |
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July 2001 |
"We must ensure that the links between the UN's pre- and post-conflict work, its peacekeeping activities, and its development programs are strengthened." |
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January 2016 |
"We need to forbid immigration to the U.S. for any person who originally hails from a country in which terrorists recruit, conduct training, manufacture weapons, or perform tactical operations." |
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July 2003 |
Can India and Pakistan be brought to the table to resolve the conflict that has been ongoing for more than half a century? |
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January 2017 |
"…Sanctuary cities [are those] that refuse to cooperate with Federal authorities in detaining illegal-alien criminals. This is the most baffling policy that can be imagined, as it results in criminals deliberately being released into public…" |
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July 2004 |
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. had the opportunity to lead the world toward greater cooperation through diplomacy, int'l organization, and int'l law. Instead, the world is drifting toward military anarchy while democracy erodes at home. |
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November 2011 |
The author is a French-Iranian journalist who was working in Iran until, one day, the authorities confiscated his press pass, interrogated him at a secret police headquarters, and threatened to harm his family. He then fled to France. |
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September 2017 |
"If the U.S. could make it clear to China that the consequence of inaction [concerning the curbing of North Korea] would be a nuclear-armed Japan, that might be an adedquate incentive." |
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January 2006 |
"In this new era of possibilities and responsibilities, the U.S. will require a wider lens view of how the global community sees us, so that we can better understand the world and our role in it." |
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March 2015 |
"I pummeled the heavy air as I wondered how Jewish extremists could ignore his Jewish side by considering him an Arab, even after he was able to show Zakaria Zubeidi a path other than violance." |
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March 2003 |
"As tax systems around the world become more efficient, economic output and incomes should rise." |
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March 2008 |
Under Pres. Hugo Chavez's regime the last nine years, corruption has reached heights undreamed of by even the greediest of despots, as the people of Venezuela have been fleeced out of billions of dollars. |
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March 2015 |
"I noticed a large, wooden stage on the desert sands at the foot of the monuments…On that very stage I envisioned the Grateful Dead playign and singing their melodic odes to the ages…a sinuous fabric of sound connecting the ancient and modern worlds" |
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November 2011 |
". . . With the way the American government has been going, the U.S. might be able to catch up with us--in terms of our problems--very soon, but your nation is not as far along yet." |
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September 2002 |
"Free trade between China, the world's largest population, and the U.S., its greatest industrial economy, will undoubtedly benefit both nations." |
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March 2018 |
Are the lessons of the Cold War past lost on contemporary America? |
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September 2020 |
At the same time the rapid and relentless spread of COVID-19 demonstrates that international collaboration is essential for fending off the virus, the economic carnage caused by the virus may erode support for maintaining the liberal int'l economic order. |
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November 2014 |
Defeat of the Islamic State cannot be achieved solely by military means and Western military action such as air strikes--even if given the cover of a colation containing Arab nations. |
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March 2009 |
"The U.S. tends to be critical of Russia and attempts to define its political practices as nondemocratic. Yet, America itself has been struggling for many years concerning the full meaning of democracy." |
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July 2021 |
Instead of subsiding now that he no longer is president, Trump Derangement Syndrome, especially in regards to Russia, apparently will continue unabated. |
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November 2004 |
The Capitol was evacuated and an F-16 jet fighter was deployed to gun down a stray plane that had wandered into restricted air space over Washington, D.C. It turns out the aircraft was carrying the governor of Kentucky. By John L. Scherer |
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September 2006 |
Change can--and must--come to this rogue nation, but it will not be easy, as a trip to this bastion of Communist control proved. |
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July 2018 |
Is it inevitable that the U.S. and China will go to war, or can the two nations continue to exist in an uneasy peace? |
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January 2020 |
"Placing 'America First' does not preclude the stark reality that U.S. interests cannot be separated from its global responsibilities." |
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January 2017 |
"It is time for our government to stop trying to whip up public support for our wars on Muslim countries by claiming we are 'bringing them democracy,' 'saving Muslin women,' or, now, 'defending gays and lesbians.' " |
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July 2009 |
Global warming has transformed the Arctic ice peak and the early arrival of summer means that it's not possible to make the return journey to the Pole and back and in the next decade, thin ice will make it dangerous to journey from land to the North Pole. |
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January 2016 |
"Now, more than ever, is our opportunity to stand together as brothers, human beings, Muslims, and Americans." |
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March 2017 |
"On the morrow of Casto's death, Trump tweeted: 'If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people, and the US as a whole, I will terminate the [Obama] deal." |
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May 2011 |
"The U.S. role on the global stage and standing in the Middle East will be determined by its ability to confront Iran, as the Islamic Republic challenges the willpower of the U.S. and its allies, and the world inches closer to a tipping point in history." |
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January 2011 |
World governments and NGOs should make the practice of freebie development--otherwise known as charity--more difficult by establishing specific and limited circumstances under which that type of aid is acceptable. |
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November 2002 |
"The willingness of U.S. administrations to collaborate with the most-odious dictatorships in the war on drugs is long-standing and continuing." |
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November 2008 |
"The difference between the debate we ought to be having [concerning the War on Terror] and the one we are having is staggering. The gap between where we are and where we should be is so large that it seems almost impossible to explain. . . ." |
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January 2008 |
"For a time after the [Boris] Yeltsin era, Russia appeared to be casting its lot with the West, but recently seems to have changed course, developing another sphere of influence." |
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March 2008 |
"If it hadn't been Hugo Chavez, it would have been somebody else. Someone had to arrive who could disassemble so much hypocrisy, such malignancy, such perverse selfishness." |
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March 2012 |
"In a complex and intertwined world such as ours, the unexpected is bound to happen. Just think back over the past year or so." |
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March 2005 |
Patton would advise that static occupation, negotiations w/ undefeated insurgents, & mild rebukes to neighboring terrorist sponsors not only are futile, but against the American character of decisive advance & unconditional surrender once war is upon us. |
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July 2018 |
China, like Russia, responds to its past humiliation by challenging American power. It would be naïve to expect the Chinese or Russians to be our friends; the best we can hope for is peaceful competition and cooperation in matters of mutual concern." |
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March 2007 |
"Iran's new president is plain-spoken in his radicalism, and open about his intentions. Policymakers in Washington would do well to take him at his word." |
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May 2010 |
The voyage "Around the Americas" hopes to draw attention to the revitalization of the world's waterways. |
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