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...test might force the world to accept it as a member of the nuclear club?as happened with Pakistan and India, which detonated bombs in the late '90s. But North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il would be taking a huge gamble. Detonating a nuke would give Washington a stronger argument for imposing economic sanctions. Even Pyongyang's nominal ally China might react harshly, concerned that a regional arms race would ensue. On Thursday, U.S. President George W. Bush phoned China's President Hu Jintao to urge him to take firmer action against his neighbor. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei, head...
...indecipherably in the company’s television commercials, in “synchronizing global supply chains,” which requires the shipping company to fix broken computers in the name of Toshiba and fill online shoe orders in Nike’s stead. Friedman’s argument, thus far, is well-taken...
...people ignored Coulter, she would go away. It's impossible to have an argument without both sides participating. It becomes clear after a while that Coulter's goal is not to bash liberals and spread conservatism. It's to advance the cult of Coulter. She is simply a self-promoter in our culture of celebrity...
...which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Navasky's book is a reminder of a time when magazines served as forums for "moral and political argument, rational deliberation, critical analysis of the problem." Those are qualities that are missing in American political life right now, and not just on the left. --By Romesh Ratnesar
...smart politico will tell you: the fundamental reason Democrats lost in 2004 is because the party seemed wobbly on national security issues—particularly Iraq. Rather than choose a) the confident anti-war argument that acting in Iraq would divert resources from America’s real enemies, or b) the confident pro-war argument that acting in Iraq would remove a threat and plant democracy in the world’s most dangerous neighborhood, we liberals appeared to choose c) the squeamish hope that post-Saddam Iraq would collapse, and Bush would get embarrassed...