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Columnist Michael Kinsley argued??that the neoconservative policy hawks should apologize for getting the U.S. into the Iraq war [Nov. 20]. I, however, have no intention of apologizing for supporting the war. While it has not gone well by any measure, the need for it was and still is the same. Saddam Hussein was a violent despot who engaged in genocide. He was unwilling to cooperate with U.N. resolutions that support long-term peace in the region. He previously waged an unprovoked war. If Saddam were in power today, how would he respond to the development of high-grade nuclear...
...ranked behind other members of the Big Four as a supplier of major arms to South America. For years Washington argued???no doubt correctly?that Latin nations would be diverting funds from urgent social projects if they wasted money on modern armaments. Using its dominant position in the hemisphere, the U.S. limited purchases by the Latins to World War II-vintage weaponry. By the mid-1960s, the larger Latin American countries were chafing under this de facto arms embargo. In 1968 Peru triggered what became a continentwide
Precisely what happened next will be the subject of multiple investigations by the U.S. Army, committees of Congress and the South Vietnamese Senate. It will presumably be microscopically examined?and argued???in more than one U.S. court-martial. But enough participants have spoken up to make the general outline painfully clear...
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