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Hiltrud Schober, Pforzheim, Germany I agree with you on many points, especially the bureaucracy and the lack of efficiency in the E.U. Nobody would ever deny these shortcomings. Yet, I must firmly reject your suggestion that Europe should work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest, for instance in Bosnia, or reach out to the countries of North Africa, or cooperate with Turkey. Why don't you admit that it is the strategic interest of the U.S. to want other nations to be present in areas where the U.S. is not welcome...
...troops as a way to save themselves. That incident, however, underscores how abysmal Hekmatyar's relations are with the Taliban and casts doubt over his ability to deliver Taliban leaders to the negotiating table. No sooner was the new peace plan announced in Kabul than did the Taliban vigorously reject it. "What we want is the expulsion of foreign occupation forces unconditionally," a Taliban spokesman told the New York Times. (See pictures of a priest who ministers to troops in Afghanistan...
Civil libertarians condemn the Patriot Act for unconstitutionally curtailing the right to privacy. However, as no such right is explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, this protection is at best controversial. We readily acknowledge that the Patriot Act’s provisions necessarily curtail privacy, but we strongly reject assertions of its illegitimacy...
...ordinary” citizens victimized by Washington’s insider culture. But in order to spread their ideology, the populists must ensure that politicians sharing their views reach political office—in other words, ensure that these politicians participate in the very culture the populists claim to reject. Consequently, the ideology of the Tea Party directly limits its chances for success. The Tea Partiers either have to sacrifice their populist beliefs or their influence, the former leading to their incorporation within mainstream politics and the latter leading to their total disappearance from it. This explains the tendency...
...Congressional acts that didn’t measure up to his standards of “real reform” represented his descent into the populist trap; rather than articulating a clear ideology or outlining what “real reform” looks like, he simply promised to reject proposals offered by others. Obama’s plan to limit commercial bank activity represented an even more extensive use of populist rhetoric, and its populist nature is now revealed by the fact that it has barely been mentioned in the weeks since the subject was first broached...