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The reviews of the film The Interpreter have been extremely positive. "Two thumbs up," say Ebert & Roeper. Larry King calls it "spellbinding." Rolling Stone calls it "smart." We agree with that last characterization. As we noted in a column, the film is political propaganda designed to boost the image of the United Nations and make the U.S. look bad for opposing the International Criminal Court. It is one of the smartest pieces of political propaganda to come out of Hollywood. Meryl Gordon's article about U.N. boss Kofi Annan, in the May 2 edition of New York magazine, notes that...

It's been just over three months since George W. Bush began his second term as president. Yet criticism of his foreign policy is no less feverish than it was this early in his first term. This time however the animus is directed against him via his nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The smear campaign against Bolton has gone on far too long. If the Foreign Relations Committee can't bring itself to endorse him soon, the White House ought to make good on its threat to force a showdown vote on the Senate floor....

Friday, March 12, 2004  POST POST MORTEM A Decade After His Proposed Intel Cuts, Kerry Is Revising And Extending His Remarks ________________________________________________________IN 1994, PROPOSED ACROSS THE BOARDINTELLIGENCE CUT OF $6 BILLIONProposed Immediate $1 Billion Cut And Five Year Freeze In Spending LevelIn 1994, Kerry Proposed Amendment To Gut Intelligence Budget By $6 Billion Across The Board.  The amendment cut $1 billion from FY 1994 and $5 billion for FY 1995 through 1998.  75 Senators, including Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) voted against Kerry’s amendment.  (Amdt. To H.R. 3759, CQ Vote #39: Rejected 20-75: R 3-37; D 17-38, 2/10/94, Kerry Voted Yea;...

Excerpts: MEXICO CITY –– After weeks of working for a compromise solution in the U.N. Security Council, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Thursday he is against the war in Iraq and deeply regretted any loss of life. Fox was careful to avoid offending Mexican voters who overwhelmingly oppose a war — and antagonizing the United States, which accounts for about 75 percent of Mexico's trade and is home to millions of Mexican migrants. "Mexicans who live in the United States feel proud of your firm and brave position in the United Nations regarding war," said Lydia Hernandez, an adviser to...

The Anti-Europeans Anti-Americanism has an evil twin: the neocon campaign to malign the West’s other democracies. By Stuart Reid If Thomas Babington Macaulay gave us the Whig interpretation of history, Victor Davis Hanson has given us the Marvel Comics interpretation, with added Thucydides. (Hanson is a classicist and doesn’t care who knows it.) For the past year, this sixth-generation grape farmer from Selma, Calif. has been writing the same piece, week after unforgiving week, for National Review Online. At the risk of simplifying, it goes something like this: Churchill good, Chamberlain bad; Democracy good, Tyranny bad; Israel good, Palestine bad;...