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...There's more than a narrow point of equity here. The U.S., as Boot points out, has a good record as a colonial power. Puerto Rico, the largest remaining American colony (its status masquerades under the politically correct term commonwealth, but don't be fooled), is well governed and prosperous. But wise states do not impose on others conditions that will long be resented. The U.S. is right to demand that any Palestinian state renounce terrorism, for terrorism is a curse that spills over national borders. Similarly, Washington is entitled to say - as Bush did during last week...
...officials have said that pre-emption can take nonmilitary forms. But it still seems as if the U.S. has arrogated to itself the right to go to war whenever it sniffs danger from a regime it doesn't like. And Bush's speech seems inconsistent both with the very narrow Caroline principle and with Article 51 of the United Nations charter, which allows self-defense only "if an armed attack occurs" (not "is likely to occur") against a nation. Yet pre-emptive strikes can often be justified even if they don't meet the letter...
...Baan, as the Dai call it (Luosuo Jiang on Chinese maps) is about two hours' drive from Jinghong. The first part of the trip is scarier than the rafting: a twisting road dips and soars above the furious foamy rush of the Mekong's narrow gorges. Just when you're wishing you had found time to write your last will and testament, though, the road eases off into long, straight runs through rice paddies, and the previous hour's terror is left behind?much like the worst moments of river rafting, once the boat reaches calm waters. "We do fall...
...officials have said that pre-emption can take nonmilitary forms. But it still seems as if the U.S. has arrogated to itself the right to go to war whenever it sniffs danger from a regime it doesn't like. And Bush's speech seems inconsistent both with the very narrow Caroline principle and with Article 51 of the United Nations charter, which allows self-defense only "if an armed attack occurs" (not "is likely to occur") against a nation. Yet pre-emptive strikes can often be justified even if they don't meet the letter...
...attack Chile's presidential palace. The standoff at the engine plant near Glasgow lasted five years. Apart from his discussion of Chile's covert assistance to Britain during the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina - for which Thatcher was deeply grateful to Pinochet - Beckett's focus on political symbiosis seems narrow. "You could say," he writes, "that Britain and Chile have acted as each other's political subconscious." It is arguably true that British businessmen gave Chile "its first harsh taste of international capitalism" and that, 100 years later, Pinochet's "refinement of the recipe" ended up "passing the flavor back...