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...that peace can be achieved not by sacrifice, but by brute force; that our enemies today must remain our enemies forever; and that compromise and appeasement are equivalent terms.American college students must refuse to play into this destructive and counter-productive dialogue. They must do what generations of political leaders??Israeli, Palestinian, and American—have found unreasonably difficult: To engage opposing sides not as enemies but as partners for peace, and to recognize that serious compromise requires sacrifice from all sides, starting today.As Islamo-Fascism Awareness made frighteningly plain, far too much student energy has been...
...guerrillas used sophisticated technology, represents the type of war that the US will have to fight in the future. To prepare for such conflicts, the US military will increase its size by 74,000 over the next three years. The army also desperately needs more “cultural leaders?? to help in urban warfare, Casey said. Even while describing these new challenges, Casey warned that US forces are overstressed. “I searched hard for a term to describe the state of the army. The term I came up with is that...
...They demand pandering, and then punish the panderers.” The National Leadership Index is a collaborative effort between the center, U.S. News, and Yankelovich, Inc. U.S. News published the results this week in conjunction with a list of “America’s Best Leaders??—another partnership between the magazine and the center. Gergen, an editor-at-large for U.S. News, praised the “Best Leaders?? list, which includes Michael J. Fox, Yo-Yo Ma ’76, and Nancy Pelosi. “We wanted...
...ages, this notion of “superior intelligences” cannot escape its artificiality. The inequality of intelligences can never be an objectively verifiable fact of human life; the metrics that establish intelligence are necessarily steeped in arbitrariness. Especially when referring to political knowledge, as “leaders?? must, how can anyone claim superiority? How can one possibly understand the narratives, struggles, and hopes of the people “better” than they themselves? Indeed, much like the frenzied efforts colonial intellectuals devoted to constructing the criteria with which to judge...
...export revenue, natural gas sales are the lifeline of the Burmese junta. But Burma’s gas income does not trickle down to the country’s 52 million people, more than 30 percent of whom live below the poverty line. Rather, these petrodollars sate the junta leaders?? appetite for luxury goods and lavish mansions. More disturbingly, according to the Burma Campaign UK, nearly half of the government’s revenue goes to the military. These dollars paid for the guns that were used last week to shoot down Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists...