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...returned to Ireland from his native Slovakia on Jan. 2, was promptly arrested by police and detained for questioning. Good news, right? The Irish authorities could congratulate themselves on foiling a potential terrorist threat, couldn't they? Not quite. (See pictures of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...every Russian soldier at the front was given a daily ration of vodka - roughly a shot's worth - and by the 1950s Russia had fallen completely off the wagon. In 1958, the communist youth organization Komsomol Pravda complained that members of its national soccer team were so drunk they couldn't score a goal from five yards away...
...Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets? And what about Germany - a country where fear of atomkraft is so great that the last government opposed all civilian nuclear power? Germany's air force couldn't possibly be training to deliver bombs 13 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, could...
...North Korea: Bush initially tried to reverse the Clinton Administration's policy of multilateral talks offering North Korea incentives for refraining from building nuclear weapons. The North couldn't be trusted to keep its word, Bush said, and he wasn't necessarily wrong. But he soon discovered that he had no alternative but to continue the approach of multilateral diplomacy through the six-party talks to coax North Korea into relinquishing its nukes. And that policy remained despite repeated North Korean nuclear and missile tests. Nobody expected anything different from the Obama Administration, and Obama, to his credit, didn...