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North Korea and South Korea once viewed their encounters in international sporting competitions as proxy warfare. And therein lies the symbolic importance of their decision, announced Tuesday, to field a joint team for the 2006 Asian Games and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The once-bitter enemies had already marched together in opening ceremonies at the two previous Olympiads in Sydney and Athens. But fielding a joint team is a major affirmation of the principle that the separate states of North Korea and South Korea nonetheless constitute a single nation. It is also a victory for Seoul, which has been...
Ignoring its bitter experience trying to save democracy in Vietnam, the U.S. again finds itself bogged down - this time in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seems the U.S. doesn't learn from history. Whereas the basic objective that led American troops into Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq remains noble - projecting America's commitment to democratic ideals - subsequent developments have proved the Washington strategists wrong. Once the immediate, specific objective has been achieved, it is time to get out, leaving it to Afghans and Iraqis to sort out their internal problems. Afghans without the Taliban and Iraqis without Saddam Hussein can rebuild their...
...Ignoring its bitter experience trying to save democracy in Vietnam, the U.S. again finds itself bogged down?this time in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seems the U.S. doesn't learn from history. Whereas the basic objective that led American troops into Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq remains noble?projecting America's commitment to democratic ideals?subsequent developments have proved the Washington strategists wrong. Once the immediate, specific objective has been achieved, it is time to get out, leaving it to Afghans and Iraqis to sort out their internal problems. Afghans without the Taliban and Iraqis without Saddam Hussein can rebuild their...
Let’s give Lamont a test run. I’ll even invite Meisel to have coffee with me in the café. Since he’s from the Quad, I’d imagine he prefers his coffee bitter...
...Damascus would be messy. Syrians say their worst nightmare is a political vacuum that leads to a civil war between the country's Sunni Muslims, who constitute 74% of the population, and its Alawites, a minority sect that claims 12% of Syrians, including the Assads. Many Sunnis harbor bitter memories of the regime's killing of 20,000 people in Hama in 1982, while the Alawites fear that Islamist groups will someday seek to avenge the slaughter. "It's a scary thing," says Joshua Landis, an American professor who has spent the past 10 months in Syria...