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From kindergarten to high school, I was spoon-fed the proper "Arab" account of the "Arab"-Israeli conflict by teachers--mostly Palestinian and Jordanian--whose lectures, I realize in retrospect, were nothing but biased diatribes lacking even a hint of objectivity. No one disapproved. It fit well into the Pan-Arab framework...
...considerably longer than White House and Pentagon officials predict -- about four-fifths of those polled continue to support the war. That is much more upbeat than in France, where a Paris Match/B.V.A. poll last week showed that 70% of respondents feared degeneration into a third world war. But the hint of U.S. pessimism underscored a widespread feeling that the American people had been misled, or perhaps been encouraged to mislead themselves, about how hard it would be to dislodge Iraqis from Kuwait...
...world to the state of the country, he left his vision at the border. The domestic side of the speech, with its reform plans, blueprints, comprehensive strategies and dynamic program life cycles, sounded as if it had been cobbled together by a committee of tightfisted accountants. There was no hint of significant spending cuts or new taxes to finance the plans, and not even a mention of the deficit, which has risen from $150 billion to a projected $300 billion since Bush took office. Yes, there is a recession -- but it is regional and temporary, and we will grow...
BUSH'S RECENT HINT of a new Pax Americana that would begin after Saddam Hussein's defeat raises unsettling images of John Winthrop's ideal of America as a "city on a hill," John Foster Dulles's notion of America as savior or even the 19th century vision of America's "manifest destiny...
...tensions grew, Gorbachev provided a dark hint of the Kremlin's intentions. In a strong message to Lithuania's rebellious parliament, he said "people" had lost faith in that body's leadership and "demand the introduction of presidential rule" -- in other words, an emergency takeover by Moscow...