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Biden’s Choices
Biden’s Choices by Mel Gurtov 876 words Contradictions Presidents always face uncomfortable choices: supporting human rights versus providing weapons to governments that consistently violate human rights; adding to the nuclear weapons stockpile versus spending money on social well-being; sanctioning an adversary or working with it. In the Middle East today, Joe Biden’s choice is between
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Close Encounters Require US-China Military Talks
Close Encounters Require US-China Military Talks by Mel Gurtov 593 words Near Misses US officials have announced that the President will meet Xi Jinping in San Francisco later this month, the first such meeting in a year. No issue is more urgent to discuss than resuming meetings of the two countries’ top military brass. The
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Let’s Stop Dehumanizing the Future
Let’s Stop Dehumanizing the Future by Robert C. Koehler 903 words We — by which I mean most of humanity — are still playing with the so-called “just war theory,” the intellectual justification for war dating back to St. Augustine and the early centuries of the Common Era. You know, violence is morally neutral —