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...experience of Vietnam is shaped by what we let ourselves say. Memory plays tricks?and to ward off horror, we make our memories play tricks. Except for long ago, when he told his mother, his first wife and a minister, Kerrey never brought up the botched mission at Thanh Phong. And then, on April 18 of this year, at a small speech to officer-training candidates at Virginia Military Institute, toward the end of his discourse about moral justifications of war, Kerrey spoke about the night in 1969 when he led six Navy SEALs on an operation to take...
...culture as remote and, in the old phrase, inscrutable as Mars. Hayakawa was the movies' first ambassador from this remote empire. In 1915 he played an Eastern dude in Western garb in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat. All slim smiles and secret sneers, he seduces gullible Fannie Ward with a private loan; later he drops his suavity, attacking and then, gosh, branding...
...China" policy, riddled as it is with what policymakers call "strategic ambiguity." The U.S. recognizes that China and Taiwan are ultimately part of the same sovereign entity, but opposes any move to reunify them by force. While it undertakes to supply Taiwan with enough weaponry to ward off invasion by the mainland, it also strenuously avoids sending signals that might encourage the island to declare formal independence - an eventuality that would almost certainly provoke a war across the Taiwan Strait. The long-term view associated with "strategic ambiguity" is that economic and political developments currently under way will break down...
Meanwhile in Moldova, two women were arrested for selling human remains from a cancer ward. But Taiwanese carnivores breathed easy when Taipei restaurants were absolved of accusations they were serving FRIED BABIES. Internet photos of the alleged baby eating turned out to be subversive artwork by Chinese artist Zhu Yu. The Taiwanese government reassured its meat-loving masses that while the island has a law against serving babies, they can eat all the dog meat?local or Romanian?they want...
...should go ahead with the sale. Especially in light of this newest controversy, it appears that China’s hard-line military leaders are increasingly influential in areas of foreign policy. Selling Taiwan weapons for the express purpose of defense against Chinese aggression is an important step to ward off confrontation in the future. By agreeing to the sale, Bush will demonstrate to the leaders in Beijing that America is not a country that will be pushed around when our interests are at stake—and also that we are not a country that will stand idly...