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Playing with Fire

Now that war has broken out between Georgia and Russia, some are saying that granting NATO membership to Tbilisi would have averted the crisis. How wrong they are.

In Iraq, Still Pursuing the Prize

History, combined with America’s contemporary contest with China, points to an age-old motivation for warring in the Gulf—the pursuit of oil.

The Media's Litvinenko Morality Play

Regardless of the evidence, the media narrative concludes with Putin’s guilt, if not of murdering Litvinenko then of killing democracy.

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February 13, 2012