Actually, the Dept. of Education does have a mission statement:
Didn't Mann (the founder of the American public education system) push for public education to train up American youth to be able participants in...
According to USA Today, it does. The last article actually contain the memo. So, the next time you go try and pull Wikipedia sources, please...
It is true that the Syrians are probably the most secular of the Middle Eastern states. While there is a secular opposition, the fanatics are very...
Actually, American military forces are more or less pulled out of the Middle East. Drone strikes in Yemen are down in coordination with the...
Assuming you use real facts and indisputable ones at that, you cannot state that the Middle East is "ready" for democracy. What Iran has is not a...
Standard orientalism? The caliphates/autocracies were uninterrupted for over 1000 years. Whether it was a Turkish/Arab/Mongol/etc it always ended...
Democracy flies in the face of over a 1000 years of Islamic philosophy. Do you really think a few American missiles are going to effect the...
Democracy will never come to Syria because the FSA (the supposed democrats) are also fighting with and along side al-Nursa, a terrorist group....
It seems that Government is much more interested in pursuing its own aims and ambitions than that of the vast majority of Americans. What do I...
I have noticed that a theme nearly all conversations on Syria are lacking in one thing: what do the soldiers that we are potentially going to...
If Assad is overthrown, an Islamist government will replace him. How does that help Turkey which is combating radical Islam or Israel which is...
Well it looks that the UK has luckily enough commonsense and rational legislators to oppose their entry into this harebrained scheme. And Canada...
While I am no conspiracy theorist, I would like to point out the media silence about Snowden, NSA/spying, etc. While I highly doubt that any...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has been boasting about the military's "readiness" yet 4 destroyers vs Syria with is arsenal of newly acquired...
Really? We're potentially going to war and going to kill hundreds/thousands of people for a humanitarian cause? While the various...
I apologize for the double post but in light of the recent information about the rebels using chemical weapons, since the "red line" was to deter...
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2013/06/25/17953.shtml...
I agree. Sadly, this is not a choice between democratic reform and dictatorship, it is the choice between the lesser of two evils (dictatorship...
Of course it is a kind of a slippery slope argument, but if cruise missiles/air strikes fail to shake Assad (say Russia gives him good anti-air...
It is only a matter of time, especially since it is now known that chemical weapons were used, the red line has been crossed and the world is...
I am by no means propagating fear or preemptive strikes or anything of the sort. Rather, I developed a hypothesis from my observations of history...
On the flip side, is Government mandated to provide transportation to/from polling sites for those who can't afford cars, taxis, or public...
Once upon a time, Rome and Carthage were fierce rivals competing for supremacy over the Western Mediterranean Sea. Though Carthage was endowed...
1. Launch an Education Reform initiative. Look at what is working in other countries (ie, Singapore's approach to mathematics is unparalleled,...
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