Americans may not want to go to war, but they’re definitely not going to sign up for the pro-despot radicalism of ANSWER.
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Afghanistan’s new suicide bombers?
Al Qaeda and the Taliban are finding new recruits among relatives of Aghans killed by U.S. bombs, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Some mullahs — including one who used to be anti-Taliban — are recruiting survivors and relatives of victims of inadvertant U.S. strikes for revenge missions. The primary advocate of the revenge missions […]
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When Buddhists go to war.
Every religion has a potential for violence. No religious tradition is immune.
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Symbolic Palestinians.
Michael Scott Doran carefully unpacks the symbolism of Palestine in Arab politics in Foreign Affairs, although you’ll have to pick up a copy to read his article (“Palestine, Iraq, and American Strategy,” January/February 2003). His main point — which Western pro-Palestian activists often seem to forget — is that “although Palestine is central to the […]
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Dangerous axis.
“The crisis at hand is not that Kim Jong Il has suddenly become more evil,” writes Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek. “It is that North Korea will, within months, become a plutonium factory.” As Josh Marshall points out, the Bush administration didn’t bother to come up with a policy for Jong Il, and now the U.S. […]
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Foreign policy for liberals.
Liberalism has been weakened not by some vast right-wing conspiracy, but by a loss of confidence in liberal ideas.
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Who is for human rights?
Tyranny cannot effectively be challenged, nor can democracy be extended in the world, without American leadership.
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Liberalism’s Iraq dilemma.
George Packer, author of the most compelling book I’ve read recently on American political history, Blood of the Liberals, knows what it means to be a committed but self-questioning liberal. In this week’s New York Times Magazine, he asks many of the most influential liberal intellectuals why they are not visible in the emerging antiwar […]
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The question of empire.
The choice isn’t between isolationism and empire, as the all-or-nothing people on the political fringes want us to believe. The choice is between the responsible and irresponsible uses of American power.
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Two views of just war theory.
Beth W. wrote: A premptive strike, according to the council of Catholic bishops, violates the just war theory. It sets a dangerous precedent. The last time we attacked Iraq, Iraq retaliated by sending missles to Israel. If we really care about Israel, we should think carefully. Once we have attacked Iraq, is it not true […]