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...only Kuwait's ambassador to Washington has publicly articulated his nation's policy. "If people pose a security threat, as a sovereign country, we have the right to exclude anyone we don't want," says Ambassador Saud Nasser al-Sabah. "If you in the U.S. are so concerned about human rights and leaving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Kuwait, we'll be more than happy to airlift them to you free of charge, and you can give them American citizenship...
...credit as a Cal Coolidge conservative, President Bush does not interfere with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, the United States. Since all agree that the country's internal affairs are in woeful shape, this should give the Democrats a fine opportunity to pelt him with rotten fruit and dead cats in the most important political yard sale of the quadrennium, next February's New Hampshire primary. Here in New Hampshire, however, we are looking at our watches and asking, "What Democrats? What primary...
Exactly 215 years ago this week, some subjects of Britain's King George III adopted a Declaration of Independence that asserted the necessity for a sovereign and free United States of America. The ground moved under that hall in steamy, summertime Philadelphia; an idea was proclaimed that would shake and reshape the world. Yet the entire world was hardly represented. All 56 of the signatories were white males of European descent, most of them wealthy property holders. Like some of his co-revolutionaries, Thomas Jefferson, who was primarily responsible for the soaring language of the document ("We hold these truths...
...instincts and mere calamities to get dressed up as a big idea and come to the table with their betters and smoke cigars. Keep the metaphysics manageable: much of what passes for evil (life in Beirut, for example) may be just a nightmare of accidents. Or sheer stupidity, that sovereign, unacknowledged force in the universe...
Like many other Palestinians, she felt ambivalent about the conflict. She opposed both the invasion of a sovereign nation by Iraq and U.S. interventionism. "I felt torn," she says...