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A clever, similar, but currently unfulfilling argument used to justify high taxes on cigarettes is that smokers will have greater incentive to quit if their habit costs them more money, and since they’ll be better off cigarette-free in the long run, a tax discouraging smoking actually...
He criticized both Bob Woodward from the Washington Post and Seymour Hersh from the New Yorker, two of the “big-names” in journalism who he said “cavalierly” revealed national concerns “no rational journalist would reveal.?...
(3 of 3) It wasn't the first time Hirsi Ali fled persecution. The daughter of a leading Somali opposition leader, she was born just a few weeks after the coup by Mohammed Siad Barre in 1969 and was forced into exile with her family when she was 10. She...
Such speculative assessments of Hussein’s character underlie any plan for containing Iraq; deterrence, after all, can be effective only against those who are reliably rational. The history of Hussein’s rule, Levin’s optimistic assertions notwithstanding, indicates that the United States would be...
Iraq’s crushing defeat in the Gulf War forced Hussein to change his tactics, but only increased his unbounded recklessness in international affairs. In 1993, Hussein’s agents were foiled in an attempt to assassinate both the Emir of Kuwait and then-President George H. W...