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Sunday, July 10, 2005

The Cost Of Being The Lone Superpower

"The broad European opposition to America's display of power in Iraq -- and the strong antiwar lobbying campaign in the United Nations, led by Europeans -- prompted most of the rich countries of the world to refuse to take part in or help pay for the war. Thus America's unchallenged power, in Iraq... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 8, 2005

Immigrants

"That's what immigrants look like. They always have other worlds in their minds." -- Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 6, 2005

On Violent People

''The most violent people on earth are not the demonstrators, not even the anarchists. The most violent criminals in the world today are in the Gleneagles hotel and they're called the G-8. They're responsible for the deaths of millions of people around the world by the system of globalized... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 4, 2005

When A Simple And Subtle Declarative Just Won't Do

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 2, 2005

President John F. Kennedy, On a United Europe

"Far from resenting the rise of a united Europe, this country welcomes it -- a New Europe of equals instead of rivals, instead of the old Europe torn by national and personal animosities." -- President John F. Kennedy, 1962 Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 1, 2005

Perceived American Arrogance, 150 Years Ago -- And Today

"If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Politics

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory." -- John Kenneth Galbraith Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Suffering

"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying." -- Bertrand Russell Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 24, 2005

An Iraqi's Reflection On American Sacrifice

''You have given us something more than money. You have given us a lot of your sons, your children, that were killed beside our own children in Iraq... This is more precious than any other kind of support we receive.'' -- Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Prime Minister of Iraq, while visiting U.S. troops at a... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

On Upsizing Government And Escalating Wars

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein Sign in to see full entry.

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