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Until recently, the benefits America derived from its close relationship with Israel clearly outweighed the alliance's costs. The U.S. had four self-interested reasons to pledge money and might to the Jewish state:
Why didn't Bush use the opportunity to renege honorably on his irresponsible "no new taxes" pledge? Why didn't he use the sense of national emergency to impress upon the public that we are faced with a number of national emergencies? Why didn't he urge special interests to...
They stopped twice during the march to pledge allegiance to American flags hanging in the street. Protesters also sang the national anthem twice, bringing the afternoon's total to four renditions of the old Francis Scott Key tune.
Such blunt talk is rare in the U.S., where the White House and Congress are so far ignoring the arguments for wartime sacrifice in favor of a game of high-stakes political chicken. Neither side wants to be blamed for creating more pain after Washington cut spending and added $21...
The only member of Congress who deviated from the "no draft, no how" pledge last week was Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), chair of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, whose aides cited several news programs on which Nunn said that a war lasting several months would prompt discussion of the...