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...tell them—or, for that matter, anyone—what to do? For a president of one democracy to meddle in the internal affairs of another reeks of arrogance, especially—I’m sorry to say—French arrogance, the same sort of self-proclaimed moral superiority that characterizes the world’s stereotype of France...
...many of his critics and contemporaries, Robert S. McNamara will forever and singularly be known as the supremely rational and self-confident defense secretary who irreparably plunged the United States into the Vietnam War, even while believing that the conflict was not winnable...
...explanation by that, as President, unfair ethical allegations against would be dealt with by the (nonexistent) "Department of Law" • Fox News contributor is unimpressed - "the woman is inarticulate, undereducated ... She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky ... (she) has no credentials for any job" - by • self-pitying Facebook page of • Shannyn Moore says "Bring it on!" to • "whining" about unfavorable media coverage used to "bother" • wondering by author of this index if presenting enough unflattering material about, like this and this and this and this, and this, will prompt the threat of a lawsuit...
...Black Sea to comment; when friends and relatives of the dead unfurled a memorial in Moscow on the second anniversary of the disaster, not a single senior government official attended. This is not surprising. The Kursk went down when one of its torpedoes blew up. Remembering this sort of self-inflicted tragedy would conflict with Soviet - and post-Soviet - myth-making about the power and glory of the Russian military. (See pictures from the mission to recover victims from the Kursk...
...them to do, while the memorial they are building appears to conflict with Kremlin interests. Poborchiy nicely captures this incongruity. At 51, he admires Putin, who may no longer officially run the Kremlin but is assumed to orchestrate the every move of his successor, Dmitry Medvedev. Indeed, Poborchiy seems self-consciously Putinesque, sporting a tracksuit with the Russian tricolor and leading a men's team of ice swimmers who converge on a lake for morning races every winter, when Murmansk descends into darkness for nearly two months. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...