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When Pope Benedict XVI travels to Turkey this week, most of the world's attention will be focused on the Christian-Muslim religious divide. But the pontiff is also crossing a political fault line: The gulf between Europe and the Near East has been much in the news lately because of Turkey's troubled attempts to join the European Union. Ankara is keen to become a full member, but Europeans are having second thoughts. Skeptics, including the Pope himself, are openly questioning whether a mostly Muslim nation of 70 million can ever really be part of Europe...
Fifteen years ago, in the flush of his Gulf War triumph, President George H.W. Bush crowed to state legislators, "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all." But now, as Washington's wise men look for a way out of a situation in Iraq , the symptoms of that malady seem to be reappearing. Asked in the Rose Garden in June if he saw a parallel between Iraq and Vietnam, the President replied curtly, "No." But he is now embracing the inevitable, and he answered yes last week when asked roughly the same question at the Sheraton...
There is a uniquely religious feel to football in the Midwest and the South, the intensity growing the closer you get to the Gulf of Mexico. If Oklahoma beats Texas in the annual Red River Rivalry—a sensitive subject of late—the university cancels classes the following Monday...
After the 1991 Gulf War, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell outlined a strategy for effective military action in what is now known as the “Powell Doctrine.” He emphasized using “overwhelming force” to subdue any U.S. enemy, with “broad international support” and a “clear exit strategy.” But Rumsfeld ignored years of conventional wisdom by acting under the assumption that advances in military technology can replace a multilateral coalition of real troops and well...
...right now, with the Sunni Arabs from the Gulf paying for many of the bombs that are blowing up Shi'a markets and mosques, you have to wonder if Baker is the right person to sort out the differences between Iraq's Shi'a and Sunni. Don't we have unconflicted, disinterested statesmen anymore...