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...Gaulle said he was motivated always by "a certain idea of France." Nostalgia for that exalted status, hunger for imperial gloire, is what animates French policy today. France does not expect to rival America but to tame it, restrain it, thwart it - and to accept the world's laurels for having...
...Bush's plain talk is often bracing. His challenge to the U.N. over Iraq's intransigence is a good thing; it is what Bill Clinton should have done when Saddam Hussein thwarted inspections in 1998. And in the short run, Bush will have his way - in Iraq, certainly; rolling up al-Qaeda, probably; perhaps with Turkey and at the Security Council as well. But he has been extremely careless in the process, and there are bound to be consequences. The consequences in postwar Iraq are unknowable. The consequences in North Korea - the production and sale of plutonium, or a military...
Ellison also acknowledged that the rough economic environment may also present future difficulties, but he said they will not thwart FAS’s “strong commitment” to financial support...
...There were protests in the League against the Italian bombardment, but no credible response was authorized. Then, in 1931, Japanese armed forces took over the Chinese province of Manchuria and subsequently established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Once again, despite a chorus of denunciations, the League was unable to thwart the vicious imperialism of an autocratic regime...
...sensei. Smiling knowingly, the mutant ninja rat fondles the trip wire that he is holding. “Ohh,” April gasps as she drops to her knees with nothing to break her fall except Michelangelo’s seemingly androgynous genital area. Nothing can thwart Michelangelo’s throbbing turtlehood as it breaks through his turtle shell in an explosion of desire. It appears that Michelangelo is half-turtle, but all man. “Hey April, don’t cut me no slack,” Michelangelo murmurs. April eagerly complies...