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Certainly the greatest single source of Arab displeasure with the U.S. is its stalwart support of Israel: politically (notably at the U.N.), economically ($840 million in aid annually) and militarily ($3 billion more, plus access to advanced U.S. weapons). To a majority of Arabs, Israel, as a Jewish state, is an unwelcome, alien entity. Even to those who accept its existence, Israel is an oppressor of Arab rights; despite the Oslo peace process, it still occupies most of the Palestinian territories. Particularly egregious to Muslims is Israel's control over Islamic shrines in Jerusalem, the third most sacred city...
...gutter for lowest-common-denominator fare. And we have fought our wars from a distance, dropping bombs from 30,000 feet and lobbing missiles across continents, while at home we have occupied ourselves with endless, FX-laden tales of the “greatest generation,” those stalwart heroes of an earlier time, when wars were fought by men and not by cruise missiles...
...Know first that Koizumi the maverick is very much a product of the Establishment. His father, Junya, was a member of parliament and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) stalwart who helped draft Japan's security agreement with the U.S. When he died in 1969, Junichiro was studying in London. He hurried back home and, while sorting through Junya's papers, discovered that his future had been laid out for him. "Certain victory, Junichiro-kun," read a note written in his father's script. In Japan, political inheritance is common: about a third of the seats in parliament are passed from...
Before Rumsfeld surrendered last week, he enjoyed stalwart support from the White House. Dick Cheney, once a Rumsfeld protege, came to his rescue. Rumsfeld is "going to have to break some china, but he's just the guy to do it," Cheney told the Washington Post two weeks ago. But that support may be softening. "There's some concern about him going native," says a senior Administration official who fears Rumsfeld is "falling into the old habit" of letting the uniforms dictate to the civilians...
...family that stands for liberalism, Kathleen maintains an ideological separation. She is a stalwart of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, an organization Patrick once blasted for "jeopardizing our values." And she supports the death penalty not because it is a deterrent, she explains, but because there are "awful people" who don't "have a right to live...