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...hope they continue to give a voice to those who disagree with me, including the white supremacist separatists. The grass-roots organization the staff disparages is a superb channel for their frustrations. In providing that channel, the NRA serves a very useful purpose. It is ridiculous to condemn the NRA for being successful representatives of its constituency...
...area from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war.)TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyersays Israel also succumbed to "threats to kill warming ties" by Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and other brand-new allies among moderate, pro-American Arab states. Worse, Arab countries have been planning a summit specifically to condemn the land confiscation. Says Beyer: "It was building into a much bigger headache...
Still, it is far easier to condemn McNamara in hindsight than it is to appreciate the Cold War atmosphere of the 1960s. To the policy makers of the time, Communism was a very real threat, proven by the crises in Berlin and in Cuba that brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of war. Fear of falling dominoes in Southeast Asia and of the credibility of U.S. commitments elsewhere led the administration into the quagmire of Vietnam...
Everyone is obliged to demand a more honest and a more civil discourse. But those who seek to lead bear the largest responsibility. Both the right and the left need to lower their voices. Bill Clinton taught an important lesson last week. While others jumped to condemn foreign terrorism, which only fueled passions, the President, almost alone, refused to rush to judgment. That defined him not only as relevant, but as a leader...
...isolationists are prepared to relegate the Holocaust to the category of historical curiosity and condemn all use of analogy as misguided and dangerous to the power of the Holocaust itself. Yet they themselves sap the Holocaust of meaning by making it inapplicable to modern problems. The vivid images of evil and the world's deafening silence that this tragedy conjures up are rendered irrelevant when it singularity is emphasized above all else...