Word: overthrowing
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What disturbed me most about the Weathermen, I realized, wasn’t that the group had violently attempted to overthrow the U.S. government but that I had to come 5,500 miles to learn about it. Perhaps Argentina’s young radicals aren’t so far off the mark, then, with their accusations of selective history. Twentieth century U.S. history classes that fail to even mention this brief, but real, violent insurgency do their students a disservice by painting the story of resistance in artificial hues of patience and temperance. If we are to understand...
Still, Kouchner resists the label "pro-American." He says he will openly criticize the U.S. when necessary, and is distressed and angered by its failures in Iraq, which he calls "counterproductive" and "perverse." But Kouchner did support Saddam Hussein's overthrow, arguing that he deserved to be ousted. That was a near apostasy to his Socialist colleagues, who have never quite forgiven...
Kouchner has spent his career making noise. That has alienated him from his longtime Socialist Party colleagues--they're furious both that he supported Saddam Hussein's overthrow and that he joined the Cabinet of their archfoe, new President Nicolas Sarkozy. In May they threw Kouchner out of the party...
...girls' schools and polio-vaccination programs. In Islamabad, students from the fundamentalist Jamia Hafsa seminary have occupied a children's library less than a mile from the Parliament building. Abdul Aziz, head of the Lal Masjid mosque where Jamia Hafsa is located, preaches against the government, calling for its overthrow if Islamic law is not implemented and claiming that he has 10,000 suicide bombers ready to be deployed. "What do you want us to do, storm the place?" asks Wasim Sajjad, leader of Pakistan's Senate. "We have a huge army, we can do it. But this...
This is a big change. In the century since the U.S. became a world power, relations with other strong nations have dominated our foreign policy. (Even when we went to war in Korea and Vietnam or tried to overthrow regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua, it was mostly to prevent a superpower--the Soviet Union--from extending its reach.) As late as 2000, when Condoleezza Rice laid out Governor George W. Bush's foreign policy vision in an article in Foreign Affairs, she cited Russia 35 times and China...