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Heirs to Fortuyn?
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| A small plaque marks the spot where Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down.
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| Heirs to Fortuyn? |
| City Journal | Apr 24, 2009 | Bruce Bawer |
| When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much read more |
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Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan
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| The protests on Saturday became more violent, with the police trying to prevent demonstrators on the German side of the Rhine River from joining the more aggressive ones on the French side.
Photo: Axel Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
| Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan |
| NY Times | Apr 05, 2009 | By STEVEN ERLANGER and HELENE COOPER |
| STRASBOURG, France — With protesters raging outside, NATO leaders on Saturday gave a tepid troop commitment to President Obama’s escalating campaign in Afghanistan, mostly committing soldiers only to a temporary security duty. read more |
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| A French border station was set ablaze by protesters on Friday.
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| This year’s summit meeting has been fractious both inside the hall and outside with President Obama’s request for more troops in Afghanistan and the search for a new secretary general.
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Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan
The protests on Saturday became more violent, with the police trying to prevent demonstrators on the German side of the Rhine River from joining the more aggressive ones on the French side. Photo: Axel Schmidt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Europeans Offer Few New Troops for Afghanistan
NY Times | Apr 05, 2009 | By STEVEN ERLANGER and HELENE COOPER
STRASBOURG, France — With protesters raging outside, NATO leaders on Saturday gave a tepid troop commitment to President Obama’s escalating campaign in Afghanistan, mostly committing soldiers only to a temporary security duty.. . . read more
A French border station was set ablaze by protesters on Friday. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images
This year’s summit meeting has been fractious both inside the hall and outside with President Obama’s request for more troops in Afghanistan and the search for a new secretary general. Photo: Yoan Valat/European Pressphoto Agency
Iraqi Government Raid Threatens to Inflame Province’s Tensions
An American soldier was killed by a rocket attack at a base near the southeastern Iraqi city of Amara on Tuesday, the military said in a statement.
In northern Iraq, near the town of Makhmur, American troops killed a father and son in a car when they did not stop as they were approaching an American military vehicle, said a local Iraqi police official. 
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