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Essayist Charles Krauthammer thinks that France's failure to help out in Afghanistan and Iraq is dangerous and deadly [July 12]. He asserted that the French vetoed the use of NATO's rapid-reaction force in Afghanistan because they are hoping to become the broker between the Islamic world and the West. France's behavior is just another result of Bush's failed foreign policy. Immediately after 9/11, the U.S. had the world's attention and sympathy. Had our President rallied our allies to send thousands of troops to Afghanistan, we would have not only crushed the Taliban but also...
Kennedy credited Byrd’s staunch anti-war stance and impassioned speeches on the floor of the Senate prior to the invasion of Iraq for providing a voice to the masses seeking peaceful resolution of the conflict. Their rapid dispersal over the internet testified to the nature of free speech in the 21st century, he later added...
...plague ever to afflict the human race. That helps explain the sense of desperation that permeated the 15th International Conference on HIV and AIDS in Bangkok last week. But in a cruel irony, all the well-deserved attention paid to AIDS over the past few years has overshadowed the rapid comeback of a second, nearly-as-deadly plague--malaria. The latest figures suggest that malaria sickened 300 million people last year and killed 3 million--most of them under age 5. (AIDS last year killed just over 3 million people.) What makes the malaria deaths particularly tragic is that malaria...
Summers promptly acknowledged the mistake, saying in a statement that he “misremembered” the statistic. He had been explaining how rapid economic growth and the “coming together of nations” were improving living standards...
...Summers] had intended to illustrate the comparatively rapid progress made in lowering the number of child prostitutes over a generation,” the statement said. “He would like to apologize for any offense caused...