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David Brooks is in tip-top form today. Ah, remember those days when we ran the world? Is it all over?
… in the late 1940s, global power was concentrated. The victory over fascism meant the mantle of global leadership rested firmly on the Atlantic alliance. The United States accounted for roughly half of world economic output. [...]
Filed under: World
Andrew Bacevich, a contributing editor at TAC, testified before a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations yesterday. The themes in his remarks are ones he addresses more thoroughly in his forthcoming book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, which we heartily recommend. His testimony is reproduced below:
Thank you for [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy, Iraq, War, World
From the Telegraph:
The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Good to [...]
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When will these guys and these guys and these guys and especially this guy recognize that democracy and free elections are not a cure to all the world’s ills. That they end up bringing to power people like this and this and this and this and this who don’t share our values and who certainly don’t support [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, World
This truly is an egregious story from England:
Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson.
Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is [...]
The eXile, the Moscow-based alternative paper founded by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi — and which has been home these past few years to occasional TAC contributor Gary Brecher, the War Nerd — has been shut down by Russian authorities. The website is still up (note: some racy content, which goes for most of the [...]
Some neoconservatives wish we would. Here’s Michael Ledeen:
Once upon a time, we had leaders who supported freedom and did everything possible to bring down tyrants. But not today. Today we give feel-good speeches full of politically correct slogans, wrapped in the mantle of multiculturalism and multilateralism. Even [Condoleezza Rice]’s words are feeble. [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, World
Today’s World Public Opinion survey on torture is quite fun. Respondents were put into three categories: “No torture at all”; “Limited use of torture to save innocent lives”; and “Torture should generally be allowed”.
Thirty-one percent of Americans said that torture should be allowed to save lives–five points higher than the international average–whereas the French, Spanish [...]
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is saying that Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty means that other states–Croatia and Turkey foremost among them–cannot join the European Union. “No Lisbon Treaty, no enlargement,” he declares. Slovenia, currently the EU’s presiding nation, disagrees. Why should the pesky Irish get in the way of others? They ask. Nobody in [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, World