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...each position. What is to prevent the insurgents, who hate the U.S. and the U.N., from placing on the ballot candidates who are sympathetic to the insurgents' position and having these sympathizers elected to the new Iraqi parliament? And if that should occur, will we then need to overthrow the parliament? Janet Herbst Millersport...
...reality, the Americans had a revolution for many of the same reasons. They wanted to overthrow a power who imposed his will upon the people and who had been allowed to rule without their consent. This power allotted to himself a disproportionate amount of the country’s resources and oppressed the common man. And the idea of installing the shah in the first place? Precisely un-American...
...Kirkuk has been resolutely and nearly unflinchingly pro-American over the past decade. However, our reasons for further helping the Kurds are not limited to their current assistance to our cause. Twice in the past century the Kurdish people have responded to the calls of American presidents to overthrow their oppressors, only to rise up and be slaughtered by the thousands. While the Kurds heeded Woodrow Wilson and George H.W. Bush, if the only outcome of following American desires is mass slaughter they would be wary of aiding us in the future; and the Kurds occupy too strategically important...
MARK THATCHER, SON OF FORMER BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been charged with helping finance a plot to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, President of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea [Sept. 6]. Nguema's regime is undemocratic, but Thatcher and his wealthy friends did not have any legitimacy to overthrow it. The U.S., however, by deciding unilaterally and without the approval of the U.N. to topple the bloody and dictatorial regime of Saddam, has provided a poor example to the world. What will now stop regional powers--or even individuals--from intervening in neighboring countries? A proper, legal vision of intervention...
...atrocities committed by the Nazis instead of creating harmful stereotypes that involve Poland. Przemyslaw Grudzinski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the U.S. Washington A New Legitimacy Needed Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been charged with helping to finance a plot to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the President of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea [Sept. 6]. Nguema's regime is undemocratic, but Thatcher and his wealthy friends did not have any legitimacy to overthrow it. The U.S., however, by deciding unilaterally to topple the bloody and dictatorial regime of Saddam, has provided a poor...