Word: patriotism
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...military spending 8.8% Percentage of Saudi Arabia's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005. Saudi Arabia has expensive taste in military hardware, such as Patriot missiles, from the U.S. 4% Percentage of America's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005, a lower proportion but higher dollar amount: the U.S. spent $495.3 billion, compared with Saudi Arabia's $25.4 billion
Percentage of Saudi Arabia's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005. Saudi Arabia has expensive taste in military hardware, such as Patriot missiles, from...
...Stone writes in his latest book, “War and Liberty, An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present.” Stone’s work chronicles the repression of personal freedoms during periods of war throughout American history, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Patriot Act of 2001. Stone uses the first periods he describes to acquaint the reader with the background of the tension between civil liberties and wartime necessity. As Stone covers each age, he connects earlier incidents and lessons learned to issues today. Surprisingly enough, although history often repeats itself, governments seem...
...talk about it.” Clearly. And race isn’t the only thing he gets to talk about, as Jenkins next launches into a tirade on the Bush administration: “We were standing around like ‘oh yeah, the Patriot Act,’” he says. “Someone bombed a building, let’s give up our rights, we sort of lost track of what we’re protecting… We all were pissed about 9/11 and we wanted to kick ass. I think everybody...
...would be very surprised if he didn’t continue doing what he’s done all along,” he said. “He’s a Chinese patriot. What is his career? I think his career is to be a Chinese patriot...