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Why Submit to Blackmail When Bribery Is Available?

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President Bush says hes not going to submit to blackmail by North Korea, but apparently he has nothing against bribery because hes now offering North Korea fuel, food, and an easing of U.S. sanctions in return for North Koreas promise not to produce nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, the president and other members of the federal government, including most members of Congress, just dont get it: North Korea wants nuclear weapons to deter or protect itself from a U.S. attack! And who can deny that that is a very rational fear, especially given the U.S. governments arrogant and pretentious interventionist foreign policy in which it intends to preemptively attack and invade evil nations anywhere in the world for the purpose of effecting regime change? After all, dont forget: Bush has already publicly announced that North Korea is a charter member of his axis of evil and that he loathes North Koreas dictator Kim Jong Il for starving his own people. Moreover, there are ...

Leave Iraq Alone

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Despite the fact that he is amassing an impressive display of military armament in the areas near Iraq, President Bush says that he still hasn’t made up his mind on whether to order an invasion of Iraq. That would imply that despite the array of intelligence and information that the president has in his possession, none of it so far has been sufficiently convincing for him to make up his mind. Of course, there’s always another possibility: that the president isn’t telling the truth and that he secretly made the decision to invade Iraq long ago. But wouldn’t that mean that he has been deliberately deceiving the American people and the rest of world, even while reminding everyone that Saddam Hussein is a liar? Since the United States, unfortunately, has now ...

Can We Call It an Empire Yet?

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Once upon a time people who favored an aggressive global military policy for the United States avoided the word “empire.” They instinctively sensed the anti-American ring to it, so they found euphemisms and dismissed charges of U.S. imperialism as delusions from the fevered imaginations of unpatriotic agitators. Now that has begun to change. First the new imperialists approached the issue gingerly. A few years ago neoconservative leader William Kristol, writing in a foreign policy journal, urged the United States to become the world’s “benevolent hegemon.” “Hegemon” is a back-formation from the word “hegemony,” which means the dominant influence exercised by one state over others. Recently, Max Boot of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, writing in Kristol’s Weekly Standard, complained, “The problem, in short, has not been excessive American assertiveness but rather insufficient assertiveness.” He called for empire without using the word. And now the word “empire” is embraced with unalloyed relish. In a Christian Science Monitor op-ed of April 26, titled “In Praise ...