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...nations share little in terms of core values such as democracy, equal rights and religious freedom. But conventional wisdom holds that Washington needs Riyadh on its side for two reasons: an uninterrupted supply of oil and access to Saudi military bases should the U.S. decide to attack Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Last week a "person close to the Crown Prince" told the New York Times there was talk within the Saudi royal family of using the "oil weapon" against the U.S. and of asking Americans to leave their Saudi bases. After the Crawford meeting, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said...
...none of these explanations quite capture the nature of Le Pen's success. He is not a new face (he first ran for the presidency in 1974), and the nature of his politics is well known. Le Pen is a racist, equal-opportunity bigot, as happy to offend Jews as Arabs. Why did the citizens of the country that likes to think of itself as the most civilized nation on earth give him more support than ever...
...urged the U.S. to keep equal relations with both countries...
...defendants rail against the injustice of their lot and then proceed with the trial. These tribunals, after all, are not about “equal justice under the law”—for there is no law. The tribunals are a politically motivated means to punish those who have committed terrible crimes for which they are not otherwise accountable...
...always has been, a potential for terrorist attacks against the nuclear industry. While hefty reactor shielding mitigates the danger of an attack, a breech could release deadly levels of radioactivity to plant employees and those nearby. But the problem is the existence of terrorism, not of nuclear power. Equal or greater dangers are posed by attacks on large dams, poisoning open-air watersheds or attacking our society’s vulnerable dependence on computer, electricity, and phone networks. To be free from terrorism, we would have to sacrifice modernity itself...