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Expand or scrap missile ban
Twenty years ago this December, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the only treaty in history that eliminated an entire class of weapons -- shorter- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The treaty commonly referred to as...Tags: Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Colleges and Universities, Lebanon, Mikhail S Gorbachev
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Exit strategy, post-Rumsfeld
BETTER LATE THAN never. More than two years after Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld offered to resign in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, President Bush finally agreed to let Rumsfeld go, to make room for a "fresh perspective." It's...Tags: Dick Cheney, Heads of State, Democratic Party, Condoleezza Rice, National Security
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Is Bush tying Obama's hands?
Today's topic: In its final months, the Bush administration has issued dozens of "midnight regulations" -- rule changes that can have far-reaching effects but need no debate in Congress -- including permitting mining near the Grand Canyon and taking...Tags: Dick Cheney, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Henry Paulson, Abusive Behavior
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The architect of his own collapse
Retired Col. LAWRENCE WILKERSON served 31 years in the Army and was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005. He is now a visiting professor at the College of William &WHEN I WAS ASSIGNED to the U.S. Pacific Command in the mid-1980s, we military officers would often discuss the ambassadors in our theater of operations — a huge area embracing more than 30 countries and most of the Pacific and Indian oceans. One...Tags: Dick Cheney, U.S. Army, Colin Powell, Defense, Diplomacy
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Victor H. Krulak dies at 95; retired Marine lieutenant general
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Victor H. "Brute" Krulak, celebrated for his leadership in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and for his authoritative book on the Marines, "First to Fight," died Monday at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. He was 95 and had been...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Arts and Culture, World War II (1939-1945), Health, U.S. Marine Corps
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Obama's well-stocked Cabinet
Now that Barack Obama has filled all of the seats at (and near) his Cabinet table, one thing is clear: The candidate who campaigned on a platform of change attaches equal importance to competence.
Seldom has a presidential Cabinet included so many...Tags: Timothy Geithner, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Iran releases its own tape on Hormuz ship incident
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersIran released a videotape Thursday to support its side of an ongoing propaganda battle with Washington over a weekend naval confrontation in the narrow waterway leading into the Persian Gulf. The videotape, broadcast on Iran's state-owned English-...Tags: Radio, George W. Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Armed Forces, Entertainment
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A wary hold on 9/11 trials
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe Defense Department had an eye on history Monday when it announced capital murder and war crimes charges against six detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the alleged Sept. 11 plotters would be given an "extraordinary set of rights" when they go on...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prisoners and Detainees, Sandwiches, Social Issues, Abusive Behavior
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China, helicopters and genocide
Leaders of The Save Darfur Coalition met with The Times' editorial board last month to discuss the situation on the ground in Sudan and what the world should (but isn't) doing about it. Here's a partial transcript of remarks by Amir Osman, the group's...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lobbying, Genocide, Bill Richardson, Social Issues
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Deja vu in Kabul
For years, opponents of the Iraq war claimed it was an unwinnable waste of resources that wasn't worth fighting anyway. The real war against terrorists, they argued, should be waged in Afghanistan. But now that Iraq has made heartening progress and we are...Tags: Barack Obama, Kabul (Afghanistan), White House, Hamas, National Security
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Robert Gates glass house
Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense secretary, has been busy massaging wounded alliance sensibilities after telling The Times last week that NATO forces weren't up to the task of counterinsurgency. He and other officials complained that allied troops in...Tags: Taliban, Wars and Interventions, Defense, Death, NATO
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Small allies, big headaches
Small allies bear close watching. We now know that, earlier this year, U.S. diplomats saw tensions rising between Georgia and Russia over the disputed enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and recognized that Washington had few levers to pull should...Tags: Taiwan, Sarah Palin, Richard Nixon, Condoleezza Rice, China
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