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...students, office workers - turned themselves into guerrilla fighters almost literally overnight, learning on the job, as it were, how to lure a Soviet tank down a narrow alley and bomb it with Molotov cocktails. "There was a tremendous euphoria, especially after the Russians agreed to a cease-fire and withdrew to their barracks," says Lessing. "People thought, 'This is going to be it. It's going to work.'" It didn't. A few days after the cease-fire, Soviet forces ostensibly leaving Hungary turned around and crushed the resistance. Some sort of light had been snuffed out. I can remember...
...Haven for War Criminals?” London attorney Daniel Machover described his role in issuing a British warrant for the arrest of Israeli Maj. Gen. Doron Almog, a 2004 senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A British court later withdrew the warrant for Almog’s arrest in September 2005, the same month it was issued, on technical and procedural grounds. Machover, who holds dual citizenship in Israel and the United Kingdom, advocated the right of countries not directly affected by war crimes to prosecute suspected Geneva Conventions violators?...
...from the beginning their only strategy is to be able to break our will. They can't beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. They go back and they cite evidence of Beirut in 1983 and Somalia in 1993, when they killed Americans and then Americans withdrew. They believe based on their experience in the '90s they could strike us with impunity, and that if they killed enough Americans, they could change American policy. They're trying to break our will. They think we don't have the stomach for the fight...
...about it. Western intelligence agencies assume Iran could become the next nuclear power if it proceeds undeterred with its clandestine program. Like North Korea, Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the diplomatic edifice erected in 1970 precisely to deter countries from going nuclear. (Pyongyang formally withdrew from the NPT in 2003.) The North Korean test, says General Giora Eiland, Israel's former National Security Adviser, means "Iran will reach the obvious conclusion--that nobody will stop them...
Investors may be sensing a trap. Daily stock trades at Charles Schwab fell 9% in August. That month investors poured money into stocks globally but withdrew $4 billion more than they put into U.S.-focused mutual funds. The figures for September were expected to show only modest improvement...