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Border Conflict I read with interest Ishaan Tharoor's story [Aug. 31]. It is clear that a major conflict between India and communist China would pose a very serious global threat. Yet I share his view that the long-term survival of India as a multicultural nation is more securely assured than that of communist China. Like all totalitarian states, China has decided to ensure the power of the central state by eradicating all local cultures and languages. A vast country such as India, with ancient traditions, many languages and several religions, has to tread a narrow path between...
...Limbaugh I was deeply offended by Joe Klein's characterization of those Republicans opposed to Obamacare as "extremists" [Aug. 31]. I am a moderate Republican with a degree in economics and an M.B.A. I was a career military officer and now work in the defense industry. I do not view myself as an extremist. I oppose Obamacare solely on policy and fiscal issues. Klein would be wise in the future to use less accusatory language in his writings. Bill Walters, Maitland...
...Elephant and Dragon I read with interest your essay on Sino-Indian tensions [Aug. 31]. It is clear that a major conflict between India and communist China would pose a very serious global threat. Yet I share the view that the long-term survival of India as a multicultural nation is more securely assured than that of communist China. Like all totalitarian states, China has decided to ensure the power of the central state by subduing all local cultures and languages. A vast country like India, with ancient traditions, many languages and several religions, has to tread a narrow path...
...like the analogy of a prison," says John Ging, chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, dispelling a description that many Palestinians themselves use. There is a tendency, he says, to view prisoners as deserving of their suffering for having committed some crime. "Nothing could be further from the truth... They're like you, if one morning, you woke and someone had transported you to a prison. What do you do? How do you cope with this? You're now imprisoned, in a prison, where you shouldn...
...that has circulated in Washington discusses the ways in which "the economic dimension" can "induce and reinforce the peaceful transformation of the DPRK into a country that can provide adequate livelihood for its people and engage with other countries in a non-hostile manner." Hawks, on the other hand, view the notion that the U.S. can "induce" the North Koreans to abandon its nuclear program as naïve - "a tired siren song," in the words of Bruce Klingner, a Senior Research Fellow at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former CIA analyst. Doves say the 1994 Agreed Framework...