Under either Clinton or Bush the younger, did most of the world ever come to see U.S. foreign policy as standing for anything right, or just for our nationalisitc interests?
John Lewis Gaddis: That’s sort of a loaded question — “did most of the world ever come to see U.S. foreign policy as standing for anything right” — and of course it’s impossible to answer precisely. But keep in mind one simple standard: how many people in the world would jump at the chance to move to the U.S. and become American citizens, if given the opportunity? Then balance that against the anti-American rhetoric that’s so prevalent, and see where you come out. The answer’s not obvious.
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Who knew God could be so funny?
Think of a billion oranges, or of a trillion dollar bills. It is tough even to conceive or to fully appreciate of quantities so large. Humans find it difficult to understand such enormous sums simply because most of us lack the terms to comprehend them. But try. Try to perhaps imagine something besides oranges or currency. Try to imagine humans….
In the past year alone, three million humans died of a disease worldwide (Holbrooke). This disease is known as AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (“Automatic, systematic.”). Every day, 12,000 new people get infected, and, perhaps worse, 90% of them will not even know that they have been infected until 2013 (Holbrooke). Just in America, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 24-27% of them undiagnosed and unaware of their HIV infection (“Basic Statistics”). This can safely be called a pandemic of the worst variety, and there is no cure.
From a chat today at WashingtonPost.com with Daniel Byman, author of a new book entitled “Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism”.
Owings Mills, Md.: Professor,
How would you fit Hamas’s (admittedly Democratic) takeover of the Palestinian Authority into your functional theory of terrorist-state connections? Hamas is likely to funnel any foreign aid to their terrorist infrastructure; does that make accomplices of any foreign donors? What tactics would you propose to Israel, the E.U., and the U.S. for diminishing Hamas’s capability for harm?
Daniel Byman: This is the question of the day.
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MINDLESS DAY TO DAY THOUGHT REPOSITORY.
Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too — all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions… Suggestions from the State.
Economic Ideology + Political Ideology = Brave New World
LISTEN TO MY FUKKIN NIN REMIX. FIRST TEN PEOPLE TO LISTEN GETS A FREE 50 CENT RINGTONE!!! SUCK ME.
Welcome to America:
this place is a prison, these people aren’t your friends
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