No, it's not the American way
We hold ourselves to high standards, so it's only appropriate to expect others to hold us to them, too.

No quagmire, no Tet, no Vietnam
Too many Americans and, so far as I can judge, Britons insist on seeing what is going on in Iraq through the prism of Vietnam.

Permission to gerrymander
So long as the courts continue to enforce the equal-population standard, we do not need the courts to step in and decide which redistricting plans are too partisan.

New Europe vs. old
Tony Blair's U-turn makes it less likely the European Union constitutiton will ever be adopted.

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No, it's not the American way
For governance, Bush has the task of leading a country that believes in American exceptionalism in a world in which that idea is, for many, off-putting if not repugnant. This is why Bush has taken pains to explain that the "nonnegotiable demands of human dignity" are not just American but universal, the gift of God or, if you will, imperatives imposed by secular ideas of liberty and equality. More...



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