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The tabloid journalist comes to life. If people are told lies long enough, it becomes the reality.
Add to that the fact most Republicans rely on The Heritiage Foundation to think for them.
...Within the overarching need (click here) for a U.S. comprehensive strategy, Russia poses four distinct, but related problems for U.S. policy:
- First, Putin’s Russia is a regime that combines a lack of respect for political, civil, and economic rights with a dysfunctional economy.
- Second and most dangerous for the United States, Russia poses a series of worldwide strategic and diplomatic challenges, including buildup of its nuclear arsenal and military.
- Third, Russia poses threats to discrete U.S. friends, allies, and interests around the world.
- Fourth, Russia’s cooperation with bad actors and its increasing tendency to play a spoiler role pose another set of threats.
This report addresses all four problems in turn after setting out the comprehensive strategy on which the U.S. should base its response....
The Axis of Evil is back.
May 6, 2002
By the Honorable John R. Bolton
Thank you for asking me here to the Heritage Foundation. (click here) I'm pleased to be able to speak to you today about the Bush Administration's efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The spread of weapons of mass destruction to state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist groups is, in my estimation, the gravest security threat we now face. States engaging in this behavior--some of them parties to international treaties prohibiting such activities--must be held accountable and must know that only by renouncing terrorism and verifiably forsaking WMD can they rejoin the community of nations....
The Axis of Evil is back.
May 6, 2002
By the Honorable John R. Bolton
Thank you for asking me here to the Heritage Foundation. (click here) I'm pleased to be able to speak to you today about the Bush Administration's efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The spread of weapons of mass destruction to state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist groups is, in my estimation, the gravest security threat we now face. States engaging in this behavior--some of them parties to international treaties prohibiting such activities--must be held accountable and must know that only by renouncing terrorism and verifiably forsaking WMD can they rejoin the community of nations....
