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...down. This past week, he released Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, in which he argues what he has been arguing for the past 40 years—that America’s foreign policy, from Vietnam to Iraq, has been motivated by a thirst to expand its empire. As usual, he bolsters his claims with an unearthly number of facts and footnotes, and the logic of his arguments seems all but irrefutable. Chomsky’s relentless criticism of U.S. foreign policy (along with his groundbreaking work as a linguist) has earned...
...jobs both under Thatcher and her successor, John Major. A quick-witted barrister with an excellent memory, he can give as good as he gets from Blair in the Commons. After six years in the desert, the Tories are working on some voter-friendly policies to go with their thirst for power. But historically, a change in leadership doesn't do much for a party's fortunes. As the party of older, wealthier, town-and-village Britain, the Tories badly need to broaden their appeal. Howard, with his reputation as a Thatcherite right-winger, isn't the obvious choice...
...skills at waging guerrilla warfare; early this year, members of the U.S. Green Berets visited Beit Lid to pick up pointers on how to conduct urban combat in Iraq. Still, most of the unit's members are in their early 20s, driven less by any gung-ho thirst for combat than by a weighty sense of national duty. "You have to do it," says Uri, 23, a lieutenant in the reconnaissance unit. "It's an obligation to myself and to my country." Uri's boss, Captain Dan, is even less sentimental. "I'm not here to save the world...
...spoke to some colleagues and I wasn’t expecting such a large turnout,” Miliband said. “But there’s a thirst to hear about something...
...TRAVEL China: Thirst Come, Thirst Served...