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al strategic interests were elsewhere, notably in helping to stabilize Egypt, while continuing to try to deal with Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Korea. "We can't do it all," said Biden. NATO and the Europeans should do more, he insisted. But NATO is run by consensus, and when its most powerful me

ilosevic from power — as well as minidramas like the 1975 rescue of the American cargo ship Mayagiiezfrom the Khmer Rouge and the 1983 invasion of Grenada, have encouraged Americans to go on believing that our awe-inspiring air power will enable us to win major wars without paying a heavy price. As Ir

cognized under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That prediction has proved wrong. Only four additional countries - India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea — have acquired nuclear weapons. One country unambiguously tried and was stopped (Iraq, before it was foolish enough to invade Kuwait). In each ca

d into Uganda to evict Idi Amin and stop the massacres he had started. In 1983, the United States, leading a coalition of Caribbean states, invaded Grenada to liberate hundreds of hostages and change the regime in place. In none of those cases was there UN authorization. The same principle was used to

ventionism has h=d the desired result that we should all begin to worry. If a few missiles i= Syria won him hosannas, what about some action against North Korea for the next reality show episod=? And what other improvised adventures could our new action hero president embark upon to keep us preoccupied and h

ers on 40=8040entitlements" like Social Security (which hasn't a=ded a penny to the national debt) when we're still paying for Korea an= Vietnam and Grenada and Panama and the first Gulf War and Somalia and the=Balkans and on and on. Estimates of just how much of our national de=t payments are from past