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Moreover, the critics seem not to have noticed when uranium enrichment and weaponization were halted: fall 2003--before the rise of the Iraqi insurgency and while the shock and awe of the U.S.'s three-week conquest of Baghdad was still reverberating throughout the Middle East, scaring WMD pursuers, like Gaddafi's Libya, into giving up their nuclear programs altogether. Timing suggests that the American military option exercised in Iraq contributed to Iran's suspension of weaponization...
...What exactly cultural imperialism entails or implies is a lengthy debate to enter. Traditional scholarship on imperialism focused on the three Cs of commerce, conquest and conversion, signifying economic commerce, conquest of new territories and religious conversion. We have long moved past this historical stage. Updated theories of cultural imperialism focus on what Balachandra Rajan calls a new tripod of commerce, culture and consent—reflecting the progression from territorial conquest to the conquest of minds—a side-effect of globalization...
...fact that they have any serious political power at all is remarkable because Australian whites, in the course of waging an undeclared war of conquest against the Aborigines, systematically denied them any access to the culture of politics right from the moment of settlement in 1788. Aborigines weren't mentioned in the Australian constitution when it took force in 1901. Not until 1962 were they given federal voting rights. The historical weight of discrimination against them is crushing...
...could glare in disapproval or moisten dewily in the surrender to love. Her mouth expressed primness or sensuality, as needed; and in many films it relaxed into the self-depreciating smile of a woman who can't believe people when they say she's gorgeous - someone for whom every conquest is a new surprise. Whether her film characters had an unapproachable (and thus enticing) air or bore the unspoiled stamp of the dream girl next door, she stirred romantic interest in her movie men. From the start they'd be considering strategies to thaw her out, measure up, muss...
...national anthem, or the PP's efforts to get everyone to display the flag, it's manipulation," he says, referring to the recent call by PP leader Mariano Rajoy for Spaniards to display the Spanish flag on October 12, a national holiday which commemorates the Spanish discovery and conquest of the Americas with military parades. "They're using nationalism to upset the agreements that have made Spain a pluralistic country...