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What were McCain and Obama thinking?
Today's question: How do Joe Biden and Sarah Palin fit in with the recent history of presidential campaigns? All week, historians Lee Edwards and Allan J. Lichtman debate vice presidential politics.
A shrewd gamble that could make history Point: Lee...Tags: Joe Lieberman, Entertainment, Diplomacy, Republican Party, Walter Mondale
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Israel launches offensive into Gaza
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIsraeli forces Saturday made their deepest and deadliest incursion into the Gaza Strip in years, attacking Palestinian rocket-launching squads with tanks and warplanes but also inflicting a heavy loss of civilian life in the densely populated enclave....Tags: Ehud Barak, Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Building Material, Gaza City
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The Wolfowitz non-story
RUTH WEDGWOOD is professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies.ON TAKING office, World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz set two priorities for the world's premier development institution. He asked for a focus on Africa's persistent poverty, and he targeted corruption that diverts aid dollars from the poor....Tags: Economic Organization, Retirement, U.S. Cabinet, Career and Workplace, Johns Hopkins University
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Who are you not calling a petro bully?
I cannot understand why Michael Ross ignored the very best evidence for his contention that the "link between oil riches and bad international behavior is even deeper than it appears." He never mentions President Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney, nor...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iran, Coup d'Etat, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons
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Bombing North Korea in Syria?
John Bolton, the controversial and spectacularly mustachioed former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has a new book out, with the curiously embattled title of "Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations ." At an Oct. 30...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pyongyang (North Korea), Iran, Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons
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Obama, Gitmo and the war on terrorism
Today's question: Will closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay rehabilitate America's image abroad, as President-elect Barack Obama argues? Does that even matter if keeping the prison open reduces global terrorism? Glenn M. Sulmasy and David Kaye debate....Tags: Amnesty International, Lawyers, Symbols and Symbolism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of Oxford
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What Bush leaves behind
After eight unreflective years, George W. Bush has suddenly turned contemplative, arguing in a flurry of exit interviews that his record (as Mark Twain said of Wagner's music) is better than it sounds. He could turn out to be right -- but his standing...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Diplomacy, Republican Party, Robert Gates, Iraq
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Obama must right the wrongs
American power is rooted in American values, Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton said last week at her Senate confirmation hearing. Unfortunately, we've learned the hard way that the United States cannot credibly promote values it is...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Global Warming, Diplomacy, South Africa, Abraham Lincoln
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U.S. action on Darfur
After years of standing on the sidelines and making ineffective threats about punishing Sudanese leaders for slaughtering the people of Darfur, the Bush administration finally took concrete action this week. Its decision to airlift vehicles and heavy...Tags: Diplomacy, Charity, Armed Forces, Susan Rice, Barack Obama
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Our ally in Islamabad
Today, Center for American Progress senior fellow Brian Katulis and Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Lisa Curtis debate U.S. support of Pakistan's government. Later in the week, they'll discuss Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's coming elections and...Tags: Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, Armed Forces
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Accommodating reality in Iraq
There are two schools of thought in Washington about how to make peace in Iraq: the Bush administration's, and almost everyone else's. With the war in its fifth year and the troop-surge strategy for the moment producing more U.S. casualties than progress,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Peace Negotiations, David Petraeus, Constitutional Issues, Diplomacy
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Gitmo: A fetid and cancerous symbol
JOSEPH MARGULIES, a law professor at Northwestern University School of Law, is the author of "Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power" and served as lead counsel in Rasul vs. Bush before the U.OCCASIONALLY, apparently unrelated episodes will align to reveal an important truth. So it is with three events reported in the last few weeks. The first happened sometime Wednesday, when another prisoner killed himself at Guantanamo Bay — the...Tags: Symbols and Symbolism, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Defense, Prisoners and Detainees
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