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...coups go, Venezuela?s could only be called absurd. The plotters were brash and incompetent, while the U.S. stumbled on the sidelines, appearing at times to welcome the overthrow of an elected government. The whole thing lasted only three days, and in the end, the target of the putsch re-emerged as its conqueror: the once and once again leader, President Hugo Ch?vez...
Since the end of 1991, the United States has repeatedly looked for ways to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. The U.S. has occupied military bases in Saudi Arabia and other neighboring states for “protection.” It has given the nod to special forces seeking to assassinate Hussein. It has imposed and enforced sanctions—both food and economic—on Iraq, which have only hurt the Iraqi civilian population and not its government. If the United States attacks Iraq under the guise of terrorism, it is a misuse of our power...
...straight white men, forced into the cultural shadows by the late 20th-century obsession with diversity, are finally able to reassert their identities by reading Maxim and watching programs like Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “They can overthrow political correctness and politeness and be proud of being a man again,” she says. But some Maxim readers disagree, arguing that there is nothing new going on here. “Man has always been about looking at hot chicks and power tools,” says...
...straight white men, forced into the cultural shadows by the late 20th-century obsession with diversity, are finally able to reassert their identities by reading Maxim and watching programs like Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “They can overthrow political correctness and politeness and be proud of being a man again,” she says. But some Maxim readers disagree, arguing that there is nothing new going on here. “Man has always been about looking at hot chicks and power tools,” says...
...check. So, no matter how pro-U.S. an Arab president may be, there are limits to what he can do in support of American policy. For decades, Islamic militants have exploited Arab leaders’ close ties to the U.S. in their ongoing effort to delegitimize and overthrow regimes in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. To weather the storm of Islamic militancy, Arab leaders must walk a fine line, which means appeasing their American benefactors when they can and spouting Arab solidarity when they must. For Saudi Arabia’s Prince Abdullah or Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak...