Nations just as it breaks the will of human beings.
Because he had such an ingrained and perhaps exaggerated faith in democracy, he did nothing to repress it.
Siblings ran the overt and covert arms of foreign policy.
Weyler, the brute, the devastator of haciendas, and the outrager of women . . . is pitiless, cold, an exterminator of men, ran one such account. There is nothing to prevent his carnal, animal brain fr...
Whatever doubts the Americans had about the wisdom of embracing Zia were overwhelmed by their determination to intensify the rebellion in Afghanistan.
Opponents denounced the treaty as an imperialist grab of a distant land that shamed American ideals
There are those who believe that if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you leg...
The shah did not tolerate dissent and repressed opposition newspapers, political parties, trade unions, and civic groups. As a result, the only place Iranian dissidents could find a home was in mosque...
The former colony itself becoming colonialist.
The day’s most vivid exchanges were about a delicate but serious matter: the extreme foreignness of native Hawaiians. Both sides used racial arguments. Annexationists said the islanders’ evident savag...
The Saudis were already deeply involved in Pakistan. They had sent Zia large sums of money to open religious schools catering to both impoverished Pakistanis and Afghan refugees. To ensure that these...
That strengthened the planters’ opposition to democracy, since universal suffrage would most likely have produced a government dominated by nonwhites.
She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest had long ago done its work. Trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home; multitudes wh...
About 90 percent of the one billion Muslims in the world today identify with the Sunni tradition. Of the remainder, most are Shiites, the largest number of whom are in Iran.
It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that...
He projected American power through regional allies like Iran, Zaire, and Indonesia, and turned a blind eye as dictators in those countries oppressed and looted with abandon.
Each of these four coups was launched against a government that was reasonably democratic (with the arguable exception of South Vietnam), and each ultimately led to the installation of a repressive di...
Diem complained about all these soldiers I never asked to come here.
Caught up in the all-encompassing idea of their country’s manifest destiny, they convinced themselves that American influence abroad could only be positive and that anyone who rejected it must be bad.
At a meeting of the National Security Council on March 4, 1953, Eisenhower wondered aloud why it wasn’t possible to get some of the people in these downtrodden countries to like us instead of hating u...
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