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...reality for Washington is that the region's neo-leftist revival extends far beyond the bluster of Chavez: At least eight Latin American nations either have recently elected left-wing heads of state (including the region's largest economy, Brazil) or have leftists leading in the polls for upcoming presidential elections (including Mexico and Bolivia). Failure to engage the region's new politics will not only have economic consequences; it could also imperil other key U.S. goals in the hemisphere such as the war on drugs, immigration reform and the consolidation of democracy...
...Perot vs. Gore (CNN) Perhaps not since the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954 has a public figure been so thoroughly undone by a performance on television. The Vice President is no star debater, but he was good enough to expose the meanspirited bluster of the little man from Texas. The second big loser of the evening: the strangely passive moderator, Larry King...
...Sung died in 1994, his son and apparent successor Kim Jong Il displayed the same steely confidence in his own political correctness. So last September, when a North Korean submarine ran aground on the South's coast and 26 armed infiltrators dashed ashore, Pyongyang erupted with the standard bluster. Not only was the North the "victim," its spokesmen said, but because 24 of its men were killed, it might retaliate a "thousandfold." And, oh yes, the sub must be returned...
...lost the Iraq war long ago. George W. Bush had no idea what he was getting us into. Now we all know that bluster and posturing don't win a conflict. If we can't stabilize Iraq, how can that country's ragtag police ever do so? Maybe peace would come if our occupation forces left. Gary Wilson North East, Maryland...
...lost the iraq war long ago. George W. Bush had no idea what he was getting us into. Now we all know that bluster and posturing don't win a conflict. If we can't stabilize Iraq, how can that country's ragtag police ever do so? Maybe peace would come if our occupation forces left. Gary Wilson North East, Maryland...