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maybe giving her a pith helmet would help....

is it legitimate to ask whether it is sound policy for the US to attack and overthrow another country on ideological grounds? does China have the same moral authority to overthrow the US in an attempt to 'free' the American people from the chains of capitalism by converting it to communism? if...

the justification for women serving in traditionally-male military roles depends on the assertion that they are in every way as capable as men to perform them. to treat her differently solely because she is female negates that assertion, and implies that the policy subjects male soldiers to...

well said. don't always agree with Sen. McCain's politics, but there's no doubt he's an exceptional individual. OT - I recently learned that the missle that started the fire on the deck of the USS Forrestal actually hit McCain's plane while he was in it getting ready for flight...

give you one guess...

they'll probably rename a wing of the capitol after her. this one's got the media's full blessing - plays to the soccer moms as well as the laptop bombardiers and the window-sticker patriots, no downside to it. the politicians will be tripping over themselves for camera time with her.

brilliant

which is why a petition to the UN would be futile. the administration has essentially said that the UN and diplomacy are irrelevant, that warfare is an acceptable first means for dispute resolution, and that the US will abide by international law only when it is to the US's advantage, leaving...

that article is an opinion of the UK Attorney General.

Rumsfeld on the Draft: "If you think back to when we had the draft, people were brought in; they were paid some fraction of what they could make in the civilian manpower market because they were without choices. Big categories were exempted - people that were in college, people that were...

Rumsfeld’s personal contempt for many of the senior generals and admirals who were promoted to top jobs during the Clinton Administration is widely known. He was especially critical of the Army, with its insistence on maintaining costly mechanized divisions. In his off-the-cuff memoranda, or...

(EXCERPT) OFFENSE AND DEFENSE by SEYMOUR M. HERSH The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon. Posted 2003-03-31 As the ground campaign against Saddam Hussein faltered last week, with attenuated supply lines and a lack of immediate reinforcements, there was anger in the...

definitely. this operation has been a complete diplomatic disaster. it's only common sense that an obnoxious bully will generate resentment and support for the bullied, and arrogantly dismissing the world as irrelevant will have long-term ramifications beyond this war. but the question...

agree with the rest, but not sure about Russert - he seems to be one of the few professionals in 'mainstream' tv news. fox should get someone more aggressively annoying to match with hannity -- someone like carville. though they'd probably lose viewers...

whose intentions? stated by whom? which version, which motive of the several? naturally human rights matter - but 3/4 of the planet have an unfair system of justice. are you implying a serial conversion of all of it? and if not, why not? is there anything in (modern) history that serves...

if 'interesting' and 'special' are defined based upon race, then the policy is racist and discriminatory, no getting around that. the question then maybe should be whether this particular racism is 'justified racism' -- however, that seems to be contrary to the Equal Protection principle.

would the same line of reasoning have applied to the Viet Nam war?

well, whether there's a flat is the issue. and it's a matter of opinion. as such, there's not much to be done beyond expressing that opinion. however, an opinion expressed with arrogance, insult, and crass intimidation tends to alert some people that it rests on a shaky foundation. on...

if you get a flat tire, do you trade in the car and get a new one? or maybe better to drive around on the flat, screaming at people out the window that, despite appearances, you really do not have a flat, and insisting that the car drives better than ever. and furthermore, that if anyone...

I think it does matter. one story today noted he was born in NZ, but didn't say what citizenship he held now. not sure that what he said amounts to 'aiding' the enemy, but it was an extremely poor decision to make these statements during the campaign, at any rate.