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A Legacy of Anti-Terrorist Failure in Lebanon

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The Bush administration is fond of favoring tough measures against terrorists. With the Bush team cheer-leading all the way, Israel reinvaded Lebanon in July in response to Hezbollahs seizure of two Israeli soldiers. Israel and Hezbollah had been exchanging bombs and missiles for months actually, years prior to Israels launching a bombing campaign that soon expanded to include much of Lebanon. Unfortunately, neither the Israeli government nor its friends in the U.S. government appear to have learned anything from the prior Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. As with the last time, there is a danger that U.S. military forces will be sent to Lebanon to try to assuage the chaos. In June 1982, a terrorist organization headed by Abu Nidal (the Osama bin Laden of the 1980s) attempted to assassinate the Israeli ...

Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 1

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In the late afternoon of February 4, 1945, the "Big Three" of the Allied side in World War II — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin — took their seats around a conference table at Livadia Palace, a few miles south of Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The war in Europe was rapidly reaching its end. On the Western front, American, British, and other Allied forces had successfully turned back Hitler's last offensive of the war in December 1944, when the German Army had attempted to attack across Luxembourg and Belgium and cut off the British forces in southern Holland from the main body of American forces in northern France. The Western Allies, in February, were now poised to begin their assault to capture the German Rhineland and make the push into the heart of the Nazi Reich. On the Eastern front, in early February 1945, the Soviet Army was already less ...

More Mideast Bills

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Surveying the history of England inThe Rights of Man , Thomas Paine noted that "a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." The United States government has followed faithfully in England's footsteps. But it has added an innovation to the ancient formula: to carry on taxes, it raises peace as well. Each time an American president gathers the leaders from Israel and the Arab world in order to advance the "peace process" the American taxpayer takes a major blow to his pocketbook. But somehow the peace process is never complete. I call this power that the president takes with him to Camp David or to Wye River the American Taxpayer Express Card. No president leaves home without it. The risk to American taxpayers is great because presidents hold Middle East summits out of political desperation. When things weren't going well ...