In the wake of the beltway sniper attacks people have cried out for tougher gun control laws and the need for older laws to be enforced. ... Ballistic fingerprinting is one of the many new ideas to help curb gun control. ... Project Exile has support form both gun control advocates and the National Rifle Association. ... I also understand it is unfair to compare foreign policy with domestic policy, but I don't see the harm in one learning from the other. ... Opponents say that new gun control laws and the aggressive enforcement of existing laws violate gun rights. ...

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Throughout the history of the U.S. through countless administrations, Republican and Democrat, war has always been a last resort to violence, not a first response to political and democratic turmoil. Our current president has presented the nation with a new doctrine, justifying preemptive U.S. ...

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The United States began bombing raids on Afghanistan in October, disabling Taliban control over strategic cities and freeing the country from the Taliban regime in less than a month. ... Bush had outlined his foreign policy with a doctrine of preemptive war against those who sided with terrorists and against the American values of individual freedom, democracy and free trade. ... Military action was taken in March of 2003 with the Operation Iraqi Freedom and American forces successfully took control of Iraqi cities and although Hussein's location was unknown, his dictatorial rule had ende...

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Like most other libertarians, I want a foreign policy of peace, free trade, and free of interference from the government. The government should have less control of our social lives and concentrate on national issues such as trade and relations with other countries. ... I believe the government's purpose is to take care of federal and international policies while leaving the commonwealth of the people in our own hands. ... I believe people should assume responsibility for themselves because they are in control of their own lives, and government should not interfere with that. I think the ...

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After analyzing the work of John Isbister, six political theories have been discovered: the modernization theory, imperialism, nationalism, globalization, foreign policy, and economic development. ... Because of this, Iraq was able to control OPEC and had control of the world's economy. ... Foreign policy is a concept that Isbister talks about as well. In the 1980's, Iraq's main foreign policy was the war in Iran. ...

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Also the Federalists, who supported a constitutional democracy, and the Centralists, who were in control of the government from 1835 to December 1844, were opposed factions of each other. ... Since then, America has tried several Iraq policies: engagement during the 1980s, armed confrontation during the 1990-91 Gulf crisis, containment through the 1990s, and now "regime change", which makes replacing Iraqi president Saddam Hussein the focus of the U.S. policy. ... After the Gulf War the U.S. policy was containment to use on Iraq but the United States was not able to contain Iraq for long be...

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In the year of 1977 the United States and Panama agreed on two new treaties to overlook those of the 1903 treaties about control of the Panama Canal. These treaties recognized Panamas control over the Canal Zone, and control of the Panama Canal itself. ... The Islamic revolution, which took place in Iran, created the first major foreign policy problem for Carter. ... Reagan changed the tone of United States foreign policy. Détente, which was a peaceful however strained policy of coexistence with the USSR, was de-emphasized, and the United States foreign policy was against all governmen...

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The rapidly growing threat of ISIS to the entire world community has risen to take control of Iraq and many other nations within the area. ... An article by Ira Straus suggests that United States policies in the region allowed the rise of the terrorist organization within the region, "this has provided the hothouse for the growth of the extremist Islamic State. ... "Now, ISIS's focus is on building its own state and consolidating its power in the areas it managed to control. Therefore, most of the fighting it has engaged in was against others who are contesting this control, and...

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These two men have different names and slightly different meanings and policies to deal with the under-privileged states of the world. ... Barnett was also a supporter of the war in Iraq but not for humanitarian or the WMD reasons but for the policy towards the underdeveloped world that the U.S. would have to take after the invasion. ... The policy of dealing with these states is where the two men differ further. ... Barnett proposes a more unilateral policy for the U.S., Mr. ... With the European Union working to put together a constitution and create a more powerful executive that has mor...

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The way America is trying to take control of the situation in the Middle East is wrong. ... The officials said a National Security Council study completed two months ago determined that despite concern here about Iraq's ability to continue to battle the Iranians, there should be no drastic change in American policy. ... If Iran were to take control of Iraq than they would be able to control the price of the oil. ...

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This was first shown by the early world powers of Spain and Portugal, who conquered among themselves several territories for their utmost conquest and control. ... They want to tell us that they are in control and they cannot be easily pushed over or anything for that matter. ... Superpowers usually impose themselves on the citizens of the weaker country in such a way that they control everything from the government structure to the different policies so that they can gain to benefit from these things. ...

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There are several policies that I might change as President of the United States, however, if I had the opportunity to be in office for one day, I would want to do something that would bring joy to many people. ... With the Iraqi Governing Counsel in complete control, and in a very secretive manner, and to ensure that the return of every soldier to their home is a surprise to all, hundreds of military and commercial airplanes would be sent to Iraq to collect all military personnel on July 3rd. ...

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Under Abbasid control, the nation flourished. ... Three empires emerged and maintained regional control. ... It was the first Islamic regime to establish lasting control in southern Europe, capturing Constantinople. ... Under Ottoman control, Christians and Jews were granted millet status. ... Ali controlled the Egyption economy by fixing prices and handling foreign trade virtually by himself. ...

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Lawrence has also written about the foreign policy and international affairs of the United States for numerous well known publications such as the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. ... Kristol also served as a foreign policy advisor for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign. ... The Research Unit for Political Economy explains, "If other imperialist powers were able to displace United States dominance in the region, the dollar would be dealt a severe blow. "12 Azor 7 The group RUPE also believes that the United States would preserve the rule of the dollar and hurt the cre...

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The U.S. and the Bush administration knew this, but it wasn't necessarily for reasons of world safety that we wanted to oust him - he's just a horrible person to be in charge of a country; he's a tyrant over what he can control and his sons are no better, seemingly even worse. ... The book has a very American, maybe even Republican tone with the pokes at flaws in Clinton's lax policy on terrorism. ...

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In 1938, the Iraqi King Ghanzi used military power and mass amounts of propaganda to gain control of the people of Kuwait (Arab.net). ... OPEC's objective is to "co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on capital to those investing in the industry"(opec.org). ...

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America's so called war on terror is nothing more than a dastardly and pusillanimous way of controlling and bringing into submission the world's fastest growing religion-Islam- by manipulating the media, exercising ethnic- profiling, and through its foreign policy. ...

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Foremost, the ongoing feud between the Sunni, Shia and Kurdish peoples in various regions throughout the country has played a major role in the government's ability to control Iraq. ... The current government is seen by many Iraqis as little more than puppet government controlled by the United States and its allies. ... Gaining control of their own nation and developing their own ideas of democracy will be a major hurdle for the people of Iraq to overcome. ... This creates a problem for the new Democratic government of Iraq because if they cannot either find a way for all of these diff...

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President Bush signed a bill passed by Congress for funds to secure Iraq and rebuild Afghanistan after touting a new policy to spread democracy through the Middle East. ... Possibly if we can control middle eastern situation. ... The Iraqi economy should be sufficient to allow elections and have the Iraqi society controlled. ...

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It appeared that France's main interest in Syria was as a display of its power and control over its colonies. ... By the end of World War I the Ottoman Empire had collapsed, leading to an Arab administration in Damascus and the Syrian interior, French control of Palestine, and British control of the Syrian coastal areas. ... In 1920 the San Remo Conference of the victorious allies placed Syria and Lebanon under French control. ... Sarrail was known as a republican and a free thinker, and was sent to Syria by the Cartel des Gauches, anxious that Syria not be committed to a clerical poli...

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Many questions are asked: Why do other countries want to control Iraqi oil? ... Iraq was split up with Britain, the colonial suppressor of Iraq, controlling half of the Iraq, then France and the United States controlled a quarter each. ... Britain wanted to control Iraq to pad it's ever so precious gem: India. ... Policy makers definitely did not want Iran to emerge victorious. ... Thus, the policy that emerged was to support the pro-Western regimes in the region, bolster their defenses, and hope the combatants weakened each other to the point where neither would emerge from the war ...

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Through this assignment, I was able to discover that there is an actual doctrine being executed during this war that seeks to tune the world to U.S. dominance in domestic and global policies. ... The current administration is feeding on an attitude of "American exceptionalism,"" and since so many successes have been had to escape the era of containment, September 11th had no trouble playing the role of a catalyst to bring rollback policies to full realization without anybody to really stop the U.S. ... In the end, with the way that oil distribution is regulated to be stable, I am convinced thr...

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Those who have been watching the war on television are familiar with the video footage after the US military took control of Safwan, the southern Iraqi border town, when a man was captured on film hitting a large, partially destroyed wall portrait of Saddam Hussein with his shoe. ... He's been a my-way-or-the-highway sort of guy who does seem to appreciate policy nuances. ... The administration has started discussions with the UN about how to handle the postwar period, but will it again insist its own priorities and policies come first. ...

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He also stated that America will continue to be attacked until it stops supporting Israel and specific foreign policies in the Middle East are stopped. ... I feel that when the War on Terror comes to a conclusion, more terrorists will be created and there will be more hatred for America, it's policies and it's people. ... This war is being fought to defend an imperial agenda orchestrated by the Bush administration in what I believe is to control all of the oil in the world. ...

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Iraq Policy: Motives and Consequences", written in 1989 and given as part of a lecture, Noam Chomsky, Professor of linguistics at MIT and frequent critic of U.S. foreign policy, seeks to expose the U.S. for its duplicitious self interest in dealing with Iraq. ... That tells us that just by elementary logic the crimes can't be the reason why we have to destroy the monster." p.67 The U.S. is toying with Iraq to have complete and free control over Iraq's number one resource: oil. ...

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