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Russia and the West In getting it wrong, Samantha Power gets it more right than ever [Aug. 25]. Of course Putin is the real driving force of Russian aggression, and not his mouthpiece President Medvedev. While being rightly proud of its recent astonishing development, Russia is at the same time on the brink of a tour of conquest to restore its lost empire. We all know what happened the last time it did so: this Georgian adventure will not be its last. Maarten Molenaar, VEENENDAAL, THE NETHERLANDS...
Since it has become fashionable in France these days to rate the efficiency and productivity of the various members of the government, the temptation to apply the same principles to the foreign-policy results of the French President is irresistible. What, so far, were good moves, what were wrong ones? And in the middle - they tend naturally to be the most numerous - what are the mixed ones...
...then, Pelosi realized she was on the wrong side. She had previously told one interviewer that she wouldn't budge on drilling because she was "trying to save the planet." But a senior aide says that when Barack Obama came out in favor of a pro-drilling compromise emerging in the Senate just before the August recess, "she realized she was going to have to support...
...whom was Karadzic. Even more unnerving was the fact that he looked nervously at me even more than at the judge, perhaps because with my headscarf I was obviously Muslim, like his victims. I sat frozen in my seat and realized that if I had been born in the wrong place at the wrong time, I could have been among them...
...aborted idea of slavery being born of a ship crossing the Atlantic is wrong. West Africa was the home of a thriving internal slave trade since at least the 15th century. During this era of Atlantic trade, Europeans rarely ventured inland and instead relied on Africans to supply them with enslaved persons captured in raids or through warfare. Of course, even if the Europeans were altering the course of a preexisting, domestic slave trade, this horror remains paramount. Europeans introduced a level of terror and exploitation to the Atlantic slave trade that killed literally millions of Africans. Ghana?...