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Still, the early years of the Cold War, for all the foolishness and hysteria they engendered, provided a sense of shared goals and common interests. The truest expression of common sacrifice is public investment, which requires that we give up some enjoyment now in order to provide for prosperity for...
Yet a few politicians argued that new taxes were needed to finance the fighting. "We've got to live in the real world and start paying our bill," said Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith advocated a surcharge on annual incomes greater than $100...
The Arabic language, with its splendors, can create a sometimes dangerous political world. A Palestinian academic in the West Bank city of Nablus says, ( "The absence of democracy and freedom of expression leads the Arab to escape reality on the horse of rhetoric." Words create and manipulate truth.
But Saddam also represents the yearnings of the Arab people: a defiant assertion of dignity, unity and honor. He has given fierce expression to the emotions of many Arabs on matters that mean the most to them: opposition to foreign domination, the achievement of a kind of moral parity with...
An antiwar movement was forming, though not in large numbers. A group of protesters in the Senate gallery were arrested for disrupting the debate on the war. A coalition of Protestant leaders said, "We call upon the churches and upon the nation to fast and pray for peace, to pursue...