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...error occurred while processing this directive] "corrodes the most sacred bonds and most worthy affections of the human being, with the result that people are debilitated and our reciprocal relations rendered precarious and unstable." Such workaday pronouncements in Rome may not draw much attention. But this week Benedict visits Spain, the European democracy that arguably best represents the relativist tyranny he so dreads. Having accepted an invitation to attend the church's World Meeting of Families in Valencia on July 8-9, Benedict will arrive in a once devoutly Catholic nation that both admirers and critics around the globe...
...that is working for him. The White House concentrates his visits and speeches on friendly countries and largely ignores the recalcitrant ones. "We're building relationships where there are relationships to build," said a White House official. That explains why the President spends so little time in France and Spain--the blue states of Europe--and so much in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia, countries once behind the Iron Curtain where his odes to democracy are particularly resonant. Beyond just visiting, Bush has been pushing for the eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union, which would give...
...world power. As a young political leader he supported the Navy League which advocated a big ship Navy capable of projecting American power across the world. As the Assistant Secretary of the Navy - at that time the second highest job in the Navy - he advocated war with Spain over Cuba and did all he could prepare Commodore Dewey's fleet so it could take the Philippines. When war came he resigned from his Washington desk job and formed a volunteer group of polo players and Western cowboys, including Native Americans, who became known as TR's "Rough Riders". Their great...
...efficient, honest democratic governance. Without addressing Congo's problems, there will be no progress in a vast area of the continent, and the so-called First World will continue trying to stop African immigrants with walls, patrol boats and airport controls. Luis Beltrán Alcalá de Henares, Spain Thank you for drawing the world's attention to the problems of Congo and indeed all Africa. The continent's problems are twofold: tribalism and colonialism. The existence of numerous incompatible tribes was not taken into consideration by their respective colonial masters at independence. African countries should hold referendums...
Roosevelt had previously confided in Mahan his belief that the U.S. should push Spain out of not only Cuba but also the Philippines, though at the time acquiring the Philippines was by no means a goal of the McKinley Administration. Ten days after the Maine went down, on a late Friday afternoon when Long was temporarily out of the office, his dynamic assistant cabled instructions to Admiral William T. Sampson in the Caribbean and Commodore George Dewey in Hong Kong to prepare for decisive action. Long, though by his own account somewhat bemused, did nothing later to counter those orders...