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...sheer incompetence of Pol Pot's rule. He had barely come to power before initiating the policies that helped him lose it: the evacuation of urban centers, which caused mass rural starvation, and the extermination of the skilled and the educated. In 1978, dimly sensing his reign of terror was collapsing, he issued a belated directive for cadres to ease up on summary executions, yet simultaneously launched a bloody purge of suspected Vietnam sympathizers. And so, with astonishing rapidity, a movement founded on a quest for social justice degenerated into a cruel and self-defeating experiment in social engineering...
...mind recoils at the prospect of the civil war, chaos and hatred which could ensnarl Iraq if America should fail to secure a stable republic. To prevent a Taliban-era Afghanistan on the Euphrates and all the instability and terror it would bring, Americans must be willing to bear the necessary burdens in blood and dollars. But beyond merely pragmatic concerns, America has a moral obligation to see this project through to the end. Although we did not support Bush’s invasion of Iraq, our concerns stemmed primarily from our distrust of the Bush administration to plan properly...
...Bush administration burned one more bridge last week, and although it was arguably in the service of waging America’s war on terror, this country is fast becoming an island nation...
Rumsfeld was lying, or at least bending the truth. The Bush administration has long held—much to the dismay of the world—that militants fighting for international terror organizations such as Al Qaeda, are unlawful combatants, and thus not subject to the protections of any international agreements. Indeed, of the dozen non-Iraqis removed from Iraq, all of them reportedly had links to terror groups or had entered Iraq after the invasion in March 2003 to engage in terror or aid the insurgency. But defining fighters as unlawful combatants is a slippery slope to descend...
Much has happened during the years since the Electras’ last performance. The face of popular music has undergone some serious cosmetic surgery, from the Beatles and the Who to Madonna and Run-DMC to Terror Squad and Simple Plan. America has endured its fair share of wars and scandals, and so has the music world...