Category: National Security/UN

Free Elian Gonzalez!

National Policy Analysis #274 /
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 ...
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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 ...
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Clinton’s Flawed China Policy: Is Clinton-Style Engagement Really Constructive? by Jason Morrow

National Policy Analysis #259 /
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 ...
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Recent Russian Military Aggression Underscores Need for Missile Defense System, by Jason Morrow

National Policy Analysis #261 /
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 ...
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Americans Losing Control of U.S. Treasures to United Nations, by Elizabeth McGeehan

National Policy Analysis #253 /
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 ...
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Greater Intervention and Military Cutbacks are a Deadly Combination, by Jason Morrow

National Policy Analysis #249 /
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 ...
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Defense 2.0: America’s Military Badly Needs an Upgrade, by Jason Morrow

National Policy Analysis #251 /
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 ...
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Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not in U.S. Courts

National Policy Analysis #244 /
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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Latin American Nations Use U.S. Legal System for Profit

National Policy Analysis #236 /
Greedy plaintiffs attorneys making back-room deals with elected officials, massive contingency fee deals, untested legal theories, multi-billion dollar claims - sounds like another day in the U.S. court system, doesn't it? But this time the perpetrators are five Latin American ...
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Hypocrisy in Buenos Aires: Millions of Gallons of Fuel to Be Burned By Those Seeking Curbs on Fuel Use

National Policy Analysis #217 /
Next month, the American people will witness an extraordinary act of hypocrisy: Millions of gallons of fuel will be burned as a direct result of an international conference convened to curb fossil fuel use. On November 2, the fourth meeting ...
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