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Stephen Kinzer


American
August 4, 1951
Author
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Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.


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Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.


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Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.


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Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
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Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.


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Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.


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Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.


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The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.


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Tags: Change Been Times
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
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Tags: Some Many Off
The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.
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Tags: Change About Will
Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.
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Tags: Those Well Made
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
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No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.
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Tags: God Will Ever
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One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.


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Tags: Who Will Day
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
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Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.
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Tags: His Now Long
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.
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Tags: First His Made
Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.
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Tags: World Most Still
As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.
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Tags: Will Going Long
The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
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Tags: Best More Than
With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
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Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.
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Tags: Own Right America
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.
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Tags: About Down Order
During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
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Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
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During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.
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As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
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Tags: War World End
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
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Tags: Money War Being
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.
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Tags: War Had Been
The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'
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Tags: More Than Ever
During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.
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Tags: Much Other Lost
During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.
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Tags: War Had World
Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.
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Tags: Much Once America
The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.
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Tags: Work Out Would
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.
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Tags: War History Other
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
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Tags: Fear Every Where
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
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More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.
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Tags: God More Than
Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins.
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By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
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