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...answers. Instead, there is much loose talk about America-as-new-Rome. But Rome never held hearings on the Punic Wars, nor did it slide in and out of indecisive contests. Beholden to 535 Secretaries of State, as Henry Kissinger liked to mock the Congress, the U.S., the oldest democracy in the world, has neither an imperial class nor an imperial ethos. It is Gulliver without the patience to rule...
...nationals. Billions of dollars from wealthy Saudis have funded anti-American and anti-Israel terrorist groups and helped establish radical schools worldwide that foment Islamic militancy, including the madrasahs in Pakistan that produced the Taliban. Americans hardly expect that kind of treatment from their worst enemies--let alone their oldest strategic partner in the Arab world, which has relied on U.S. soldiers for more than a decade to protect it against Iraq's Saddam Hussein. But Saudi Arabia controls 30% of the world's known oil reserves. And so for years, in the interest of maintaining the world's supply...
Charleston, S.C. Not only is Charleston a waterside city that exudes small-town feel; it also has Old World Southern charm. Cobblestone streets with stately mansions, old churches and ornate public buildings abound. And the city boasts excellent theaters, museums, restaurants and golf courses (including America's oldest...
...about three hours south of Bangkok, hardly looks like a 21st-century getaway. The country's oldest resort rose to fame in the 1920s, a decade after British engineers punched a railway through deep jungle, eliminating the long elephant rides from Bangkok suffered by the royal family on their beach outings. (Commoners went by canal and oxcart.) For the ensuing half-century, Hua Hin was the place to sun and be seen by upscale Asians and resident expats. But the onset of group travel sent beachgoers to a succession of swank, new beach resorts, leaving Thais largely alone...
...nationals. Billions of dollars from wealthy Saudis have funded anti-American and anti-Israel terrorist groups and helped establish radical schools worldwide that foment Islamic militancy, including the madrasahs in Pakistan that produced the Taliban. Americans hardly expect that kind of treatment from their worst enemies-let alone their oldest strategic partner in the Arab world, which has relied on U.S. soldiers for more than a decade to protect it against Iraq's Saddam Hussein. But Saudi Arabia controls 30% of the world's known oil reserves. And so for years, in the interest of maintaining the world's supply...