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...want to know that their safety and security needs are being addressed and Republicans have made and will continue to make that our number one priority." The Democrats, not to be outdone, have chosen as their constant theme this fall that Republicans are "making us less secure," be it abroad in the Middle East, at home in New Orleans or in the workplace...
...family. Women, it seems, are looking to first ladies as a reflection of the state of women in general. They want to know how official wives handle the challenges all women face today, from handling work and family to deciding whether to send kids abroad for university. Bored by rehashing 30-year-old details about Farah Diba, the Shah of Iran's very public wife (her patronage of the arts, her various cosmetic surgeries), my aunts speculated about Mrs. Ahmadinejad. Did she work? Read books besides the Koran? Stay at home mincing vegetables? I told them she taught...
...transferring name-brand al-Qaeda prisoners recognized as dangerous men - such as alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad - to Guantanamo from secret detention abroad is likely to strengthen the rationale for the offshore facility, and for dispensing justice via military courts. It is also precisely because the Supreme Court has ruled that military tribunals do not offer detainees sufficient legal rights that the President has now urged Congress to pass legislation to address those concerns...
...cross-party petition against the new law, and other opponents included the conservative Chief Cabinet Secretary - and likely future Prime Minister - Shinzo Abe. Former Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma's xenophobic comments were typical: "If Aiko becomes the reigning empress and gets involved with a blue-eyed foreigner while studying abroad and marries him, their child may become emperor," he said in February. "We should never let that happen...
...Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President George H.W. Bush. General Scowcroft described the two broad historic themes of American foreign policy--call them traditionalism vs. transformationalism, or the realists vs. the idealists. The twin poles are represented by John Quincy Adams, who famously said the U.S. "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy," and Woodrow Wilson, who believed that America was a shining city on a hill and that it was our national destiny to be evangelists for democracy. While that is an oversimplified schema, it does suggest an initial outline for a national dialogue. What ideals...