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...IOP’s purpose as a non-partisan organization is cited by students both within and without SAC as an integral part of its philosophy, but one which provides a challenge...
...president may yet face opposition to a pre-emptive strike from some of Congress’s more committed left-wingers and partisan Democrats. As he continues to “make the case” before U.S. lawmakers, Bush would be well-served to mention Israel’s 1981 raid as clear evidence that pre-emption can be a vital means of national, regional and global self-defense. Ultimately, any senator or congressman who still believes that America should merely work to “contain” or “box in” Hussein?...
Future historians will reflect on the degree to which partisan politics and political correctness have weakened the West's resolve and crippled its ability to identify the enemy and defend itself. MICHAEL MONFILS Green...
Despite this unprecedented effort, partisan critics still lament the President's refusal to support the Kyoto Protocol--forgetting that the Senate voted 95 to 0 against Kyoto's principles in 1997. It's worth remembering why: Kyoto would put millions of Americans out of work for the sake of meeting unrealistic targets that would have a negligible effect. The developing world, which will soon account for the majority of all greenhouse-gas emissions, has no obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. Even the industrialized world isn't expected to make major reductions in its emissions; rather, it will simply buy credits...
That same optimism and common sense is in short supply in our politics today. The Bush Administration has succeeded in "changing the tone" back to the days of pessimism, when partisan politics pitted businesses against clean air and water. It has turned the environmental agenda over to big polluters, denouncing even modest reforms as technologically impossible and economically ruinous. These doomsday predictions aren't new: if Richard Nixon had believed polluters' grim fairy tales, he never would have put an end to the days when lakes and rivers literally caught fire...