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...Chirac does not imagine that he will create a military bloc to confront the U.S., as did the Soviet Union. What he is trying to establish is something only slightly less ambitious: an oppositional bloc, a restraining bloc, a French-led coalition of nations challenging the hegemony of American power and the legitimacy of American dominance...
Chirac does not imagine that he will create a military bloc to confront the U.S., as did the Soviet Union. What he is trying to establish is something only slightly less ambitious: an oppositional bloc, a restraining bloc, a French-led coalition of nations challenging the hegemony of American power and the legitimacy of American dominance...
Bush meets with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David. Then, a day after the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush challenges the U.N. to confront the “grave and gathering danger” of Iraq—or allow the U.S. to do so. Bush asks Congress for authority to “use all means,” including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Saddam if he does not comply with U.N. demands...
...roomful of fellow humanities professors, may have been preaching to the converted, I think her speech has implications outside of the walls of the Barker Center. What is most troubling about this war is the Bush administration’s use (or misuse) of language, its refusal to confront the moral complexities of a situation that makes its moral platitudes irrelevant and irresponsible. As we go barreling into a war that involves regional instability and international discord, it seems reckless to have only two words in our diplomatic arsenal: “good” and “evil...
...think in general that while traveling, students will have to confront hostility abroad...