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Why Submit to Blackmail When Bribery Is Available?

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President Bush says he’s not going to submit to blackmail by North Korea, but apparently he has nothing against bribery because he’s now offering North Korea fuel, food, and an easing of U.S. sanctions in return for North Korea’s promise not to produce nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, the president and other members of the federal government, including most members of Congress, just don’t 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. government’s 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, don’t forget: Bush has already publicly announced that North Korea is a charter member of his “axis of evil” and that he “loathes” North Korea’s ...

With Friends Like These

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Without any shame whatsoever, President Bush has returned John Poindexter, Elliott Abrams, and Henry Kissinger to the federal government. Poindexter is in charge of “Total Information Awareness,” a government information-gathering operation straight out of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Abrams has been appointed as top National Security Council envoy to the Middle East. And in perhaps the most laughable appointment in a very long time, Kissinger was made head of the committee whose mission is to get to the bottom of the federal government’s negligence and wrongdoing that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Poindexter and Abrams are famous for having betrayed our country with their involvement in the notorious and illegal Iran-Contra affair during the 1980s. The scheme involved illegal sales of weapons to Iran, which the U.S. government considered an enemy of the United States during that time. The two rogues then used the profits ...

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 ...