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...what makes me cringe—but sadly, not hard enough to make a real social sacrifice.Moral cowardice is an ugly animal, particularly among professedly idealistic 20-year-olds. It lurks in us all, of course, waiting to prey on our often-juvenile vulnerabilities—weaknesses which mar an otherwise healthy sense of right and wrong. As we struggle to sift through innumerable conflicts of conscience, we often resign ourselves to compromise. We do just enough to maintain a façade of standing for something great, yet we do little enough to ensure that no sacrifice is needed?...
...easy to host all these countries. It's particularly not easy to host, perhaps, me." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in a press conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, site of a 34-nation Summit of the Americas, where anti-Iraq-war protesters, calling Bush a "fascist" and a "terrorist," threw Molotov cocktails and set a building on fire...
President George W. Bush shouldn't have been too surprised by the angry-and ultimately violent-welcome he received Friday at the 4th Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina. After pledging during his 2000 election campaign to correct Washington's indifference to Latin America, the President is viewed as having all but turned his back on the region after most Latin American capitals declined to back his invasion of Iraq. But Bush's hemispheric cold shoulder has backfired: It created a political vacuum that has been largely filled by neo-leftists like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
Maybe it was ominous that Air Force One had a rocky landing as we came into Mar Del Plata, Argentina. The plane shook violently as we approached this coastal city that will host the Summit of the Americas, where President Bush faces a difficult time in discussions with Latin American heads of state. He's still being dogged by questions about the CIA leak investigation, while his domestic poll numbers continue to fall. And the outlook for the administration on the substance of this summit is less optimistic than in previous meetings of the leaders of the Western Hemisphere...
...being stoked by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an advocate of what he calls "21st century socialism." Chavez has come to the summit vowing to "bury" the FTAA, and he's even attending a counter summit of protestors opposing free trade. Indeed, thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Mar del Plata for the summit, far out of earshot, let alone sight, of the Sheraton Hotel where Mr. Bush is staying and holding many of his meetings. When I asked Bush at a quick press availability about how Americans should think of Chavez and what he would...