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The nation "continues to assign a higher priority to programs designed to confront conventional military threats, such as ballistic missiles," says terror expert Stephen Flynn, "than [to] unconventional threats, such as a weapon of mass destruction smuggled into the United States by a ship, train, truck or even private jet...
This makes for a novel way of practicing the art of politics-one inspired, you could say, by the prince called the Buddha more than by the one described by Machiavelli. The central principle of Buddhism is the idea of interdependence-the notion that all sentient beings are linked together...
At the same time, it should be remembered that the invasion did indeed bring definite advantages to some. These include the Kurds, now safe and relatively secure in their largely autonomous and well-protected enclave in the northeast. They also include some Shiites who gained freedom from persecution and opportunities...
In Lawrence H. Summers’ Elmwood living room, a hand-picked group of Harvard foreign policy experts balanced their dinner plates on their laps. Weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Summers, then University president, had brought the professors together to discuss the coming war. Summers held court from a...
"It used to be the Tibetans were protesting against Chinese rule," says Nicholas Bequelin, China researcher with New York-based Human Rights Watch. "But now they're protesting against the destruction of their whole civilization, their whole world. They feel that they are doomed if they don't do something...