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...monumental step forward for our politics and our country. For 232 years, our founding fathers’ promise of liberty and equality for all has rung hollow for a large segment of the American population. But today, Obama’s election gives hope that we are on the brink of realizing this ideal. In the past eight years, Republican rule has undermined everything from America’s powerful economy to its esteemed position in the world, but the people have powerfully spoken in favor of change. While a divisive McCain campaign attempted to exploit every racial, ethnic...
...policy “more stabilizing” for Israel, this opinion fails to convey the magnitude of what is at stake. National Review columnist Anne Bayefsky best articulates this viewpoint, writing that “since the time of Hitler, civilization has never been so close to the brink of total catastrophe” in reference to a possible nuclear attack by Iran on Israel, among other threats to geopolitical stability. For children of Holocaust survivors, McCain’s more aggressive Iran policy, including a refusal to negotiate with Iran, is infinitely superior to Obama?...
...Clark, meanwhile, is struggling to seduce voters with lofty talk on combating climate change. The notion that the planet is on the brink of catastrophe from this amorphous force is a hard sell in New Zealand, where water is abundant and lush pastoral land rolls on forever. Clark wants New Zealand, which produces 0.4% of the world's carbon emissions, to set the pace on emissions cuts, just as it was the first country to grant women the vote (1893) and the first Western-allied nation to legislate itself into nuclear-free status (1987). "New Zealand...
...then there's Somalia. Somalia is the world's biggest humanitarian crisis, in which 3.5 million people - more than one-third of the population - are now on the brink of starvation after 17 years of civil war. If we have a responsibility to protect anywhere, surely Somalia would be top of the list. But Somalia has attracted no offers of help from the West, and only a few thousand African Union troops. It is not as if the world has no interest in what happens in Somalia; anarchy has fostered not only a starvation catastrophe and international piracy, but also...
...million combat-ready troops were deployed along the Line of Control - the truce boundary bisecting Kashmir that has functioned as a de facto border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled sides of the disputed territory. A 2003 cease-fire agreement managed to pull the two sides back from the brink of what could have been the fourth major war between them. And in the intervening years, as events related to the U.S. "war on terror" came to dominate Pakistan's security situation, the conflict that began at birth between modern India and Pakistan has given way to something approaching...