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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 01:23 PM

    @RMP: How angry would you be if U.S. troops were involved in Gaza?

    An Arabic-language newspaper (al-Quds al-Arabi) is reporting that American Engineering Corps' officers are, at Israel's request, assisting to unearth smugglers' tunnels in the area of the Egypt-Gaza border.

    I hasten to add that it appears that this report has not been confirmed by any other news source.

    http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/07/are-us-troops-helping-in-israels-war-on-gaza/

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