Category: National Security/UN

Vladimir Putin May Need to Get Out More

This story, by John F. Dickerson in the March 7 edition of Time magazine, is amazing: George Bush knew Vladimir Putin would be defensive when Bush brought up the pace of democratic reform in Russia in their private meeting at ...
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A Honeymoon for American Soldiers Based in Europe

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U.S. Army Specialist Joe Roche, whose observations about his experiences in Iraq earned the honor of being quoted by President Bush and by the Smithsonian Institution, among other distinctions, has sent over some new thoughts: His impressions of Europe, where ...
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Previewing the Volcker Investigation

The Heritage Foundation has released a paper providing guidance on how to judge the report the Volcker Investigation is releasing today. Heritage's Nile Gardner says there is a "strong possibility" the report will be a "whitewash of most of the ...
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Purple Fingers in Iraq Have Doubters, Tyrants Seeing Red, by Ak’bar Shabazz

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Now, the world knows. For several months, bitter liberals, terrified Arab monarchs and dictators everywhere told the world Muslims weren't prepared for democracy.  They essentially claimed voting is a luxury exclusively for those in the West.  Terrorists tried every conceivable ...
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Douglas Brinkley: Inconvenient History

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Douglas Brinkley (the one who appears on cable shows with the title "historian") complains in the Washington Post that "the right has hijacked the word 'freedom' from the progressive movement." ...Historian Douglas Brinkley points out that Bush's use of "freedom" ...
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Letter from a Russian Prison

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky writes from a Russian prison, as published by the International Herald Tribune: The destruction of Yukos is almost done. I did everything I could to prevent the authorities' personal animosity toward me from harming minority shareholders, ordinary employees ...
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Iraq: Stay Determined by Joe Roche

Joe Roche has a message for anyone gloomy about election prospects in Iraq: Our country is fortunate to have the orderly and time-honored traditions of elections and transfers of power. These are the most important events in democracy. I spent ...
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World Heritage Areas: A Critical Analysis, by Ryan Balis

National Policy Analysis #521 /
Our nation's most valued landmarks remind us of the liberty, strength, and justice of America at its best. Yet, unfortunately, politics - international politics, to be exact - is making use of long-standing national landmarks we think of as distinctly ...
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Brett Schaefer: U.S. Humanitarian Aid Underappreciated

The Heritage Foundation's Brett Schaefer provides the detailsrebutting U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland of Norway, who criticized the U.S. as "stingy" when it comes to humanitarian aid. The U.S. is condemned for supposedly donating ...
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Bush’s Aid Coalition

Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong reports on criticism of President Bush's new Asian aid coalition. One leftist critic complains that coalition countries (the U.S., Australia, Japan and India) lack the "moral authority" to provide aid to disaster victims ...
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