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Democracy cannot be forced 1

One lesson that we can honestly say has been learned from the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan is that democracy cannot easily be forced upon a people; especially a country such as Iraq that is composed of 3 major religious groups. This neo-Conservative tactic is fairly new to United States ...

U.S. Middle East intentions 3

In order to understand the United States’ position in the Middle East, you have to understand the history and the events that led to the current situation. During the Cold War, the U.S. played a prominent role in the Middle East in an attempt to counter Soviet power, but after the collapse of the Soviet ...

We remember 1

Every year on this day we pay tribute and remember those who have sacrificed their lives for us. It is the time of the year where we should think about avoiding future wars, because that’s what the ghosts of the World Wars would have wanted. Greed and hatred is the root cause of wars; greed ...

Legal Rights? What Legal Rights? 2

Today is a dark day in the world. Once again, President Bush has single handedly changed history and set the world down a grim path. He has signed S. 3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law, giving the United States power that goes against the Geneva conventions, defies the US Constitution, and in ...

The Nuclear Bomb

The Nuclear bomb is a powerful weapon. Both militarily and politically, this bomb has more power than any other technological advancement in the twentieth century. It brought Japan to its knees to expedite the end of World War II. Although it had devastating effects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one could argue it prevented the deaths ...

A Letter from Iraq

Time recently posted a letter from a Marine Officer in Iraq that he sent to his family (after confirming the authenticity of the letter). The experiences described in this letter are from the last 7 months of service that he describes as the “record-setting highlights of 2006 in Iraq”. The situations described in his letter ...

5 years later – Save us Oprah 1

Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of the horrific September 11th attacks. Every person in North America and many other places around the world remember what they were doing at the exact time they found out about the commercial airliner attacks on the World Trade Center. As a 21-year student working in a large office building ...

Starve the population 1

Israel has made a strategic decision to blow up every moving vehicle in Southern Lebanon, despite its purpose, apparently to prevent the transportation of weapons. They have effectively decided to starve Southern Lebanon completely; creating an imminent humanitarian disaster. The UN relief aid for southern Lebanon has been completely frozen as a result of this ...

Stephen Harper sealing his fate 6

Stephen Harper is sealing the fate of his future as Prime Minister of Canada. As the leader of a minority government, he is already walking on a tight rope. With his support for the Israeli response to the Hezbollah kidnapping as a proportionate response, he is losing the support of many Canadians who are against ...

Civilian losses okay, not soldiers 5

Browsing through an Israeli newspaper today, I found an article where Dr. Udi Lebel of Ben-Gurion University points out that Israel is ready to accept civilian losses, but the support for the Israel aggression will deteriorate as more soldiers fall. This logic is different than most conventional wars where it’s the soldier’s duty to fall ...