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Even that may be tricky. John Hillen, a military scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says NATO's actions "need to add up to some sort of sustainable end state"--something he believes is lacking. "They're counting on everything falling into place here," says Hillen, a...
For the most part, though, the production relies too heavily on a stream of academics, writers and other pundits, mostly male, offering tired facts and not always enlightening insights about the past 10 decades. It is debatable whether a 12-hour examination of modern world history actually requires an entire...
Tricky things, historical analogies. They tend to cut several ways. But they also help clarify thought, if only by showing up the differences between then and now. Let's try five for size:
In one sense, the Serb strongman was exactly where he most likes to be--at the pivot of an international crisis. He has built his career, as biographer Slavoljub Djukic puts it, by being both pyromaniac and fireman--igniting crises, then convincing people that only he can put the fires...
BAD RAP A U.S. District Court last week aired a few Richard Nixon recordings that could use a parental-advisory label. Was Tricky Dick, not N.W.A.'s Ice Cube, the original gangsta? You decide: