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...only do people die,” says William R. Rodriguez, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School who has advised the World Health Organization on dealing with the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. “They spread it to their family members, and their family members...
Second, you don't get to assume the success of your intentions then plead a shrugging "Who knew?" when they don't pan out. I also am in favor of toppling dictators, establishing democracy and watching it spread painlessly throughout every region where there is no experience of it. Not only that: I am in favor of turning sand into ice cream and guaranteeing a cone to every child in the Middle East. But you can't turn sand into ice cream. That is not a defect in the execution of the idea. It is a defect in the idea...
...Vanity Fair's quotes, there is no note of contrition. It's not their fault. In fact, dispensing with Saddam, establishing peace and democracy in Iraq and then watching those ideals spread throughout the Middle East is still a good idea. It's just that President George W. Bush bungled the job. Among other things, he failed to recognize the degree of "disloyalty" within his Administration, says Perle--who was chairman of Bush's Defense Policy Board--thus proving the accusation even as he makes...
President Bush's nightmare became a reality when North Korean leader Kim Jong Il joined the exclusive nuclear club [Oct. 30]. Bush's threatening rhetoric only accelerated the country's nuclear research and has opened the door for the spread of nuclear arms to other countries. But imposing economic sanctions on Kim's regime would only bring more suffering to the broad population of the country, while the ruthless tyrant and his Communist Party buddies would enjoy the horn of plenty as usual...
...Around the same time, the American film industry spread its power and conquered the world, dominating every market it was allowed into. And Americans became more self-centered, less interested in anything non-American, including movies. This ignorance of national, ethnic, religious and artistic cultures different from, even alien to, ours was reflected in American movie habits as well as in American foreign policy. In both cases, by wearing those blinkers we missed out on what the rest of the world thought of itself...