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In a move sure to make me question the soundness of my judgement, George Will has come to a similar observation as I did a few weeks ago: In his second Inaugural address, the president said: “The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.” You have said: “In today’s globalized world, [...]
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“There is blood on the steps of Pakistan’s Supreme Court,” said Ahsan. “The people of Pakistan have a right to protest, yet they have been brutally attacked. This whole situation is as noxious as the tear gas itself.” ———— The crackdown on the protest came just two days after the Supreme Court, lead by Chief [...]
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I have noted my points of disagreement, but this densely footnoted and courageous book deserves praise rather than abuse. The Israeli liberal daily Haaretz stated that it would be irresponsible to ignore [the earlier article’s] serious and disturbing message that the Israeli government must understand that the world will not wait forever for Israel to [...]
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One of Sullivan’s readers wrote: Although I despise Bush, I have to confess admiration for his unequivocal statements against the junta and in support of the protesters. It’s more than can be said for Russia, China, and India. One should expect this kind of thing from Russia and China I suppose, but India, the nation [...]
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Hypocrisy has become so commonplace among isolationist conservatives that it doesn’t always register, but this time it’s too blatant to ignore. ~Scott Paul There are no real isolationists in Congress. You certainly can’t find any of these people calling for withdrawal from Iraq or calling for an end to overseas intervention. (The only people who [...]
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About two-thirds of the way through the JRC debate on Iraq, Peter Brimelow had what I think was the most important point, and one entirely consistent with my general hostility to optimism: “Not all problems have solutions.”
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At the fine foreign policy blog of McCarthy, Antle and Spencer called Exit Strategies, Dan McCarthy writes an excellent post on Leslie Gelb’s much-touted review of The Israel Lobby. As I have suggested before, Dan notes that Gelb concedes or supports the thesis of the book on a crucial point when he says: “As it happens, America’s commitment [...]
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It is unfortunate that Mr. Hawkins has written this. It is unfortunate because it is an attack on his former colleagues, but even more because it is an embarrassing spectacle. Yes, Murray Rothbard opposed unjust wars and pernicious foreign policy, for which he was scurrilously attacked after death by Mr. Buckley. If anyone would like to take [...]
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All this makes a murderous backdrop for what will be Mr Cameron’s second, and possibly last, conference as Tory party leader. He was the future, once. Now we are in the extraordinary position where serious Tories talk about Mr Cameron being gone by Christmas, after losing an autumn election — and ask whether the Tory [...]
The Economist has an editorial and two articles on the developing situation in Burma. The second article makes a necessary point about the futility of sanctions: Shareholder-activists and ordinary consumers have also done their bit to encourage a boycott. But the campaign to punish the regime sometimes seems to have lost sight of its real goal, [...]
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