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...Take security. Abe has upgraded Japan's Defense Agency to a Cabinet-level ministry, sped deployment of American ballistic missile-defense systems on Japanese soil, and is pushing for a revision of the country's pacifist constitution. Last month, after Japan signed a defense agreement with Australia, Abe spoke of the two democracies' "shared destiny." And given Japan's flirtations with another powerful Asian democracy (India), you can see why Beijing might think it's on the wrong side of a Japanese containment policy...
...breath of fresh air after the dismal liberal hackery of his predecessor, David Dinkins. Giuliani made the city safer. He was an avid, detail-oriented manager, although he couldn't dent the city's school bureaucracy. He was an inspiring leader when the crisis came. He spoke his mind and did not suffer fools even a tiny bit--but then, creative incivility is part of the job description for a successful mayor of New York. I'm not sure, though, that incivility, no matter how creative, is what we want in our next President, especially when it comes to foreign...
...Albright spoke about the future of American troops in Iraq with a similar sense of bleakness...
Following a whirlwind tour of Latin America, Father Roy Bourgeois stopped in Cambridge yesterday to spread his message about the need to shut down a military training facility run by the U.S. Army for Latin American soldiers. Bourgeois spoke in Emerson Hall last night of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), its predecessor the School of Americas, and their notoriety for allegedly teaching torture techniques to its students and graduating a number of infamous dictators. Hosted by Harvard College Student Advocates for Human Rights and co-sponsored by The Latino Political Coalition, Bourgeois described his experiences...
...nuclear watchdog, if the West continued its pressure against his country's nuclear program. The warning was echoed by Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator and head of the Supreme National Security Council, who is regarded by diplomats in Western capitals as a moderate. The two spoke at the country's main nuclear complex Natanz, in central Iran, and Larijani said Iran had begun injecting gas into centrifuges. Perhaps deliberately vague, neither official specified whether Tehran was running gas in the pilot plant at Natanz or a more expansive plant containing at least 3,000 centrifuges. The head...