This is not a happy time for national security policy. There is the strategic ambush of Iraq to manage before it explodes into a wider war. North Korea is back to trying to get our attention, and this time it's got missiles and the bomb with which to do so. Iran is well along in replacing us as the dominant influence in the Middle East and is widely believed to be working on a nuclear deterrent to the air raids on it by Israel or us that leaders there and here are threatening. Hamas, which has never run an operation against Americans, and Hezbollah, which hasn't done so for decades, seem to be psyching themselves up to respond in kind to our violent efforts to crush them. The Taliban are making a comeback in Afghanistan, which just brought in the largest poppy harvest in history. The Venezuelans are replacing the Cubans as our adversaries in this hemisphere, and, unlike the Cubans, they've got oil and money to buy allies for their endeavor. China is rising and the dollar is declining. ...
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Editor - 19:57:00 01-31-07
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Editor - 19:17:00 01-31-07
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| Powerful yet weak - a US dilemma Thinktank reports on messy 'nonpolar' world and urges new psychological warfare |
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Editor - 18:50:00 01-31-07
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| Mexicans protest as tortilla crisis hurts Calderon |
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Editor - 18:24:00 01-31-07
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| Senator Wants VA to Explain Events Before Ex-Marine's Suicide |
| An Iraq war veteran committed suicide after his family said he was turned away from two VA hospitals, and now a U.S. senator has asked for a probe into the hospitals' actions. U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Hawaii D.. full News |
Editor - 18:21:00 01-31-07
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| Columnist Molly Ivins said it all — and then some |
| Molly Ivins, the iconoclastic syndicated columnist who skewered conservatives and tickled liberals, died Wednesday at her home in Austin after a long bout with breast cancer. She was 62. Ivins casually announce.. full News |
Editor - 18:16:00 01-31-07
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