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Former history professor Gingrich misstates some facts about the 20th century. The Great Depression did not give rise to Nazism or Japanese militarism. It was World War I and its aftermath that set the stage for both Mussolini's march on Rome and Hitler's attempted putsch in Munich. By the time of the Depression, in 1929, the fascists had been in power for years, and the Nazis had been growing in strength for most of the decade. Furthermore, Gingrich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R.'s New Deal. Smoot...
...Pakistan A Deadly Show of Strength Baitullah Mehsud, commander of Taliban groups in Pakistan, took credit for a March 30 raid on a police academy in Lahore that sparked an eight-hour standoff and left at least 12 people dead. In telephone interviews with Pakistani news agencies, Mehsud also promised to "amaze everyone in the world" with an attack on Washington as revenge for U.S. missile strikes on militant bases along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The FBI painted the threat as purely aspirational, pointing out that Mehsud had made similar comments before. Still, the attack comes less than a month...
...Iraq Goodbye to Basra On March 31, British forces handed over command of their operational base in Basra to the U.S., a major step in the U.K.'s withdrawal from Iraq, where for six years it has been America's closest ally. Britain's 4,100 remaining troops complete their combat mission on May 31, and all but a few hundred--who will stay in an advisory capacity--are expected to depart by August. Iraq's second largest city has seen some security improvements over the past year, but elsewhere the gains are fragile--a fact highlighted by a suicide...
...Sudan A Waltz with Bashir Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir brazenly defied an international warrant for his arrest by embarking on a six-country regional tour. Several leaders expressed solidarity with al-Bashir during a March 30 Arab League summit in Qatar and accused the International Criminal Court--which on March 4 charged him with committing war crimes in Darfur--of placing a double standard on Arab countries...