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...ought to be working as educators. We ought to be thinking about ways by which we can liberate people from these cycles of violence,” he said...
...essay asserts that moral rectitude ought to play second fiddle in the conduct of statecraft. To treat the people of other nations as pawns in a geopolitical chess game is a damnable proposition. The U.S. enjoys unprecedented dominance in the economic and military spheres. We have witnessed a continual increase in the number of the world's democratic states. It is unconscionable to fritter away our moral capital by entering into Faustian bargains with thugs. Those pacts have yielded appalling results for Americans and the rest of the people of the world. VIJAY DANDAPANI New York City...
Ultimately, before Bill Clinton makes any more speeches about regime change in Iraq, he ought to review the facts—including his previous assurances about Hussein’s willingness to deploy or transfer weapons of mass destruction and his own administration’s culpability in the ongoing “misery” of the Iraqi people. But given the former president’s tendency toward selective memory and self-reverence, don’t count...
These difficult choices do not necessarily mean that a war is the wrong course to take; war is always dangerous but sometimes necessary. Still, when such fundamental issues are at stake, Congress and the American people ought to more closely consider the consequences of the action Bush proposes to undertake. Just yesterday, the CIA warned that invading Iraq could spur Hussein to encourage terrorist attacks against the United States, raising new questions about the wisdom of backing the Iraqi leader into a corner...
...torched a year and a half ago. At the Daily Evergreen, it is too soon to gauge the fallout of the Filipino article, though the newspaper’s admission of “deep regret” for “gross inaccuracies and poor coverage” ought to go a long way towards alleviating long-term damage to the paper’s reputation. On the other hand, the theft of newspapers for publishing a controversial advertisement can never be excused—and it contributed nothing to the debate about reparations, the Brown Daily Herald...