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...This was a profoundly radical vision, a conscious effort to use the U.S. military as the primary instrument of foreign policy, a garbled, brutish update of Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" aggressiveness. But as the rationale for war in Iraq evaporated with the mirage of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Bush spinmeisters tacked on a new rationale, with rhetoric appropriated from a competing school of foreign policy, one that Roosevelt disdained: Woodrow Wilson's democratic idealism. But utopian militarism just isn't very American, in the end. We like to think of ourselves as having...
...overlooking the city, in a building that sits on the former border between east and west Berlin. "Saying something like, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall' - that could be perceived as provocative. Things were breaking and were in a lot of flux. At the time some people argued, why stick your finger in [Gorbachev's] nose? But knowing Ronald Reagan as I did, I would have said don't bother. He was going to express his feelings...
...Whether you fine illegal aliens or stick them in English classes or make them say a hundred Hail Marys, at the end of the day, illegals would be allowed to stay and become citizens under this bill. That's amnesty. And that's a good thing for America. The estimated 12 million illegals are by their sheer numbers undeportable. More important, they are too enmeshed in a healthy U.S. economy to be extracted...
...will the carnage be more like the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, where more than 100,000 people were left dead in a war that stretched from 1992 to 1995? No one can estimate that with any certainty. But millions of Iraqis have decided not to stick around to see how the numbers add up. More than 2 million Iraqis have fled the country, according to the most recent U.N. estimate. And about 30,000 more continue to leave the country each month...
...Most of us had grown up the sixties, and we assumed some measure of goodwill by the 1970s. It was just astonishing to me that such as esteemed institution of intellectual people could stick to its guns for so long,” he says. “I left with the idea that Harvard was a very conservative institution...