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LANGFANG, China — Casting aside long-standing reticence about taking part in U.N. peacekeeping duties abroad, China said yesterday it was deploying a large squad of anti-riot police to Haiti and bracing for postings in other world trouble spots. Officials put on display a new $18 million training center for peacekeepers and said it underscored China's positive attitude toward taking part in global peacekeeping missions. "It is inevitable that China is going to play a bigger role in peacekeeping efforts," Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Liu Jianchao said. As one of five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, China helps...

Last night Peter Arnett appeared on Iraqi television to give aid and comfort to Saddam's sadistic regime. No mystery surrounds Arnett's willingness to betray whatever journalistic principles he may have once possessed by openly collaborating with the Arab equivalent of Adolf Hitler. Even a very brief summary of his journalistic career will reveal that what drives this Quisling is a deep hatred of America. It will probably surprise many of you to learn that Arnett is actually New Zealand-born. Now for some reason an inordinate number of New Zealand and Australian reporters carry around a lot of anti-American baggage and...

Jimmy Carter is "idiotic" and a "damn menace" for letting Cuban dictator Fidel Castro exploit him, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NewsMax.com in an exclusive interview Wednesday night. "He should get the hell out of there!" thundered Moorer, a member of NewsMax.com's board of directors. "He’s trying to justify himself," the retired admiral said. "He has an inferiority complex about what he did and how he left the situation" after his failed one-term presidency. "He had his opportunity, and he really screwed it up." The antics in Cuba don't surprise Moorer, who...