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The Falklands are little more than a bleak and desolate cluster of rocks dotting the South Atlantic Ocean, some 8,000 miles from Britain. Therefore, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dispatched the Royal Navy there in 1982 to oust Argentine forces, I thought she was acting on some quixotic, neocolonial notion of extraterritorial sovereignty. Nothing… Read more.
President George W. Bush of the United States and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran will join a queue of world leaders in New York this week to deliver canned speeches before the Annual Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. And even though none of them will say anything of any consequence (Do they ever?), it would… Read more.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have tipped his hand unwittingly during his interview on 60 Minutes last night. Because he manifested a classic case of projection when he ascribed to President George W. Bush the intent to use the threat of attack as psychological warfare against his people. One wonders, after all, what his repeated… Read more.
