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...book from 2002], I stunned everybody by listing all of our military interventions in the past 200 years that were undertaken without declarations of war or even causes of war, starting in 1846 and the war against Mexico, which is the first moment the idea of empire took center stage in American affairs. As President [James] Polk said, "We've just got to have California!" Well, we got California--which the Mexicans are now quietly redeeming...
...unless you count the pregnant girlfriend. 3) Method by which they developed a trusting and intimate relationship: doing a reality show. At the end of the day, it says something when a wife files for divorce, then goes ice skating, and the next day her spouse shouts from a stage, "You know I'm a free man, right, ladies? You wanna dance with a pimp...
...they are 20 minutes late for a dinner party than they have managed to come up with so far in concluding that maybe the war was not such a great idea after all. "Just say 'oops' and get out" might be an excellent policy for the U.S. at this stage in the Iraq war. But it's not sufficient for the people who got us into...
...nominate the Illegal Immigrant. In terms of grabbing center stage, immigration became a hot issue in 2006, with battle lines drawn early between one group, which sees only cost and crime in illegal immigrants, and the other, which sees tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
...march became simply a rally, and there was only a single act of near-violence: A fanatic lunged at a drag queen belting out a gay-pride song on stage at Friday's event in the sports arena of the Hebrew University, but even in spangled high heels, the drag queen nimbly evaded the attacker, and a security guard yanked the assailant offstage by the seat of his trousers...