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To the editors: In discussing NATO’s efforts to protect Georgia from further Russian aggression (“Exercising Power in Georgia,” Opinion, May 13), Ellen C. Bryson offers readers much information that is incomplete and misleading. Ms. Bryson fails to inform readers that Russia...
There is also, perhaps, some truth to the statement by Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian envoy to NATO, that NATO would be wiser to hold the exercises “in some psychiatric hospital” than in Georgia, given the current state of affairs. Protests calling for Georgian President Mikheil...
While the government has allowed the protests to continue without interference, the memory of the government’s violent suppression of protests in 2007 remains a mark on Saakashvili’s record as a democratic leader. And early last week, a tank division mutinied against the government. Whether...
The trauma of my native state of California has been especially acute and is about to get worse. With housing values falling 40% or more and unemployment at 11.2% as of mid-April and climbing, the State has already suffered through a protracted political standoff between Democratic and Republican lawmakers...
Government is not a beast. If the banks are the life support of the economy, our various governments are the sine qua non for our quality of life. They mete out justice, protect us from violence and environmental degradation, educate our children, construct our infrastructure, provide medical care to the...