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Dukakis said that he had never even considered running for president until he watched the events of the Iran Contra scandal unfold in November...
...future, we currently must continue to shoulder the majority of the burden of the conflict in Afghanistan as NATO’s contribution dwindles. Radical Islamist terrorism has cost thousands of American lives and is gestating in ungoverned territories in South Asia, Yemen, Somalia, and North Africa. A bellicose Iran is approaching the nuclear threshold. Pirates range across the Indian Ocean. Across our own southern border, the Mexican government is struggling with sophisticated organized crime cartels over the control of significant portions of northern Mexico—a struggle that could spill into the United States...
...America’s top intellectual property lawyers, a former Iran-Contra investigator, and as the newest member of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—Lee now travels in the innermost circles of influence, while he maintains an enviable balance between work and family life...
...Poland as a sign of goodwill toward the Russians. This choice was particularly sensible given the expensiveness and relative uselessness of such missile-defense programs. Obama’s efforts to please Russia ostensibly paid off when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev verbally backed the concept of sanctions against Iran, a sea change in Russian policy regarding Iran. Nevertheless, in spite of our commitment to diplomacy and reconciliation, we took a tough line against Iran, firmly calling for the U.S. to condemn the nation’s uranium enrichment, crack down on domestic corporations doing business there, and aggressively forge...
...United States played a vital role in the Good Friday Agreement and the affection Irish Americans hold for their patrimony is gratifying. Nonetheless, it is not always healthy or helpful. For 40 years prior to 9/11, the most munificent global funder of terrorism was not Iran or Iraq but the U.S. Irish-American organizations channeled millions of dollars into the Irish Republican Army, extremists responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents—both Catholic and Protestant—as well as soldiers and police, in the north, south, and the British mainland. Lured by hand...