Word: statesã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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While the staff is correct to note that Russia is not an enemy, it is also not so strong an ally that it should be given an influential role in the United States??€™ most powerful military alliance. Even if Russia does not receive any veto power over NATO, the need to consult Russia and smooth over any active opposition will necessarily constrain the alliance’s actions...
...nation’s attention was turned to the war in Afghanistan, Bush has irresponsibly chosen to abandon the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty in order to continue testing a costly and unreliable national missile defense system. Bush will soon give formal notice to Russia of the United States??€™ withdrawal from the pact. While we are not concerned that scrapping the agreement will spark another Cold War-style arms race with Russia, a unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty is the wrong way for Bush to pursue America’s agenda abroad...
...Bosnia as NATO is about to pull out with a peace treaty in hand, top billed actor Owen Wilson plays a Navy navigator shot down by unknown Eastern Europeans after he spots and photographs them in a scene that was not meant for the United States??€™ eyes. While his pilot is executed, Wilson must stay alive in the wintry landscape of Bosnia while being pursued. As Wilson’s commanding officer, Gene Hackman plays Admiral Reigart, who is frustrated by his superior, NATO admiral (Joaquim de Almeida) because he has been told that a rescue attempt...
...great irony that one of the United States??€™ most erudite presidents was also one of the least suited for the patient, critical style of university life. Roosevelt’s senior thesis at Harvard had grown within a couple years of his graduation into a full-scale volume of naval history that remains today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines...
...great irony that one of the United States??€™ most erudite presidents was also one of the least suited for the patient, critical style of university life. Roosevelt’s senior thesis at Harvard had grown within a couple years of his graduation into a full-scale volume of naval history that remains today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines...