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...doctrine of realism, or its Prussian-accented cousin realpolitik, emphasizes a hard-nosed focus on clearly defined national interests, such as economic or security goals, pursued with a pragmatic calculation of commitments and resources. Idealism, on the other hand, emphasizes moral values and ideals, such as spreading democracy, and is apt to be more crusading and sentimental in its willingness to pay any price and bear any burden. Adherents of the second cliché argue that these days there is little distinction between the two because spreading democracy is in our economic and security interest. Our difficulties in Iraq, however, show...
...Joining Saddam on the gallows will be his cousin and enforcer, Barazan al-Tikriti, and Awad al-Bander, who presided over many of the dictator's kangaroo courts. Saddam's former vice president, Taha Yaseen Ramadan, got life and three lower-ranking officials were each sentenced to 15 years. One official was acquitted for lack of evidence...
Smith, who doesn’t have any formal training either, says that he got interested in photography through his friends, while Pan was introduced to it by his cousin...
...cousin is a professional amateur photographer. He shoots for local newspapers sometimes. All my training is from my cousin, basically. He taught me a lot through experience. I learned by playing around with the camera and all the settings, just generally by actually doing. He has a lot of great equipment I get to use when we go on trips together...
...destinations. My cousin had looked up good places for landscape photography in Utah and Arizona. We spent a less than a week, maybe three to four days, taking pictures at all the different spots...