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...been succeeded by a tyranny of the irrelevant - with France, and its anachronistic veto, as Exhibit A. There is, of course, a fair amount of truth to this: the U.N.'s performance in Bosnia and nonperformance in Rwanda were disgraceful (although the U.S. had a hand in the latter). The French were never serious about enforcing any of the 17 Iraq-related resolutions, including 1441 (but then we were not exactly truthful, either: regime change, not disarmament, was always the real American goal). The U.N. wastes gazillions on bureaucracy and inane conferences. The sappy rhetorical globaloney of the place...
...been trying to avert. When President Bush announced in September 2001 that he wanted bin Laden captured, "dead or alive," he may have meant to tell the world that it didn't matter to him which way it turned out. He should hope it's the latter...
...world we live in.” In short, they needed not only to produce the right kind of content—which they clearly did—but also to establish a viable means for disseminating it. Not surprisingly, given their documentary, journalistic and academic credentials, the latter task has been a greater challenge...
Ousting Saddam promotes both American interests in peace and stability, and Iraqi interests in freedom from oppressive rule. In a fortuitous coincidence of self-interests, both the U.S. and Iraqi civilians can benefit from regime change in Iraq. That peace protesters focus on the former, as opposed to the latter, testifies to their pessimism about Bush, and about Iraq. As a pack of vocal liberals, these protesters have an astonishing lack of faith in human virtue...
BACK TO THE BOOKS There are those who read for pleasure, and then there are those who read when Oprah Winfrey tells them to. The latter group has had it easy since the talk-show host disbanded her book club last year, but the guiltless hours spent watching TV or picking up a book only in order to drop it on a cockroach are over. Oprah is reviving the club, but this time she will focus on the classics. This should help avoid any unpleasantness, such as the flap that arose with author Jonathan Franzen. After Oprah anointed his book...