Category: National Security/UN

The Elian Snatch and What It Could Mean to You, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

Project 21 Commentary /
By now, the Elian Gonzalez saga is all over but for the shouting. I suspect that Elian will soon be headed to Havana to sit on Fidel Castro's knee. Perhaps then he'll be allowed to live a normal Cuban child's ...

Send Elian Home, by Michael King

Project 21 Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published January 2000 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202/543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Elian Gonzalez's parents were ...

Free Elian Gonzalez!

Many supporters of sending six-year-old Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba believe the boy should automatically be reunited with his surviving parent. Those who hold this view should ask themselves: if Elian's only surviving parent was an inmate at Auschwitz, would ...

Clinton Administration Should Reject Any United Nations Demand Limiting U.S. Defenses

National Policy Analysis #269 /
On October 21, Russia and the People's Republic of China turned to the United Nations with a simple demand. They are asking the U.N. to force the United States to cease attempts to defend itself.1 What President Clinton will do ...

Clinton’s Flawed China Policy: Is Clinton-Style Engagement Really Constructive? by Jason Morrow

Was the Clinton Administration's effort to restrict the sale of U.S. guns designed to assist China's sale of illegal assault rifles in the U.S.? Maybe not. But it would explain a particularly bizarre incident occurring in Long Beach, California and ...

Recent Russian Military Aggression Underscores Need for Missile Defense System, by Jason Morrow

Recent instances of school violence have prompted some school administrators to institute "gun drills" in which students practice diving under desks to avoid flying lead. If reports that the Russian military is out of the control of the Russian government ...

Americans Losing Control of U.S. Treasures to United Nations, by Elizabeth McGeehan

What do the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall, Jefferson's Monticello and Yellowstone National Park have in common? Each of these national treasures is regulated according to the dictates of foreign bureaucrats rather than according to the will of the American ...

Greater Intervention and Military Cutbacks are a Deadly Combination, by Jason Morrow

What if they threw a war and nobody came? As a result of current defense policies, such a scenario is not far out of the realm of possibility. In a classic case of trying to have his cake and eat ...

Defense 2.0: America’s Military Badly Needs an Upgrade, by Jason Morrow

The average U.S. warplane finished production in 1979, the same year that the last Chevy Nova rolled off the assembly line.1 But while most Novas have long been banished to the scrap heap, the Air Force is still expected to ...

Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not in U.S. Courts

A rash of foreign governments have begun filing lawsuits against U.S. tobacco companies. The suits, filed so far by Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela, and perhaps soon by others including Russia and Brazil,1 are patterned after tobacco lawsuits filed ...

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