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Article: Taking liberties.(ISRAEL)(United States and war)
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- Kurdish Life
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Oh, cease to glorify man,
Who has only a breath in his nostrils!
For by what does he merit esteem?
Isaiah 2:22
Successive U.S. administrations have been doing just that in the conduct of foreign affairs. And not without reason. In an essay captioned, "Perles of Wisdom for the Feithful," Israeli writer Akiva Eldar stressed the significance of a 1996 working paper largely prepared by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith under the auspices of the Washington and Jerusalem based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. The document called for a "U.S. Israel partnership based on self-reliance, maturity and mutuality--not one focused ...