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WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- Sometimes wars go exactly the way the governments or political movements that launch them expect. But more often than not, they don't. The secret to success in launching a war is to be able to wrap it up fast and to know when to stop. Those were techniques that the United States was not able to apply in either Afghanistan or Iraq.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Barack Obama took office Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States with an inspiring inaugural speech in which he warned the American people to "put away childish things." But Wall Street was unimpressed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling below 8,000 in its largest Inauguration Day drop in history.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- It is almost impossible for those of us living in our beloved United Socialist States of America in this happy age to grasp the bizarre fact that no one expected the Collapse of Capitalism until it literally happened.
WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt’s bogeyman was Big Business. Ronald Reagan’s was Big Labor. And the next president's is almost bound to be Big Finance. A paradigm shift from unfettered to fettered democratic capitalism is in the making.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Security is “the oxygen of prosperity” in the Asia-Pacific region, says Australia premier, hosting this week's APEC summit. But the military buildups and the growing strategic rivalries are ,making that security into a problem.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- Nine days before the United States transfers power to Iraq, how much American involvement there should be in the country's reconstruction remains unsettled.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Editor's note: This second installment of the UPI series on the compatibility of Islam and democracy explores the possibility that Iran, freeing itself from fun
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Editor's note: Are Islam and democracy compatible -- or will they ever be? This is one of the hottest topics of academic discourse today. It is the subject of e
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