Recently, campus has been a hot-bed of issues. A left-of-center write-in candidate was chosen to replace our notoriously conservative lame duck; outraged students organized and skipped class on Monday to protest against the treatment of immigrants in America; even more students slept in to raise awareness about Sunday night drinking on Webster Avenue; over 150 students visited Dick’s house with conjunctivitis (“the junk”); and countless others were kept inside, whooping the pertussis out of their lungs.
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George W. Bush believes that America’s security is dependent upon the stability and democratic integrity with which other countries govern themselves. He is not wrong. However, I propose that he extend this doctrine not only to our friends (and our enemies) in the Islamic world, but also to our strategic “allies”: Russia and China. I ask not that they be exactly like us — I do not share Bush’s unreflective assurance in the infallibility and perfection of the American system. I merely ask that they faithfully accept the universal doctrines of freedom, democracy and respect for human life. Currently, China’s progress is stagnant, and Russia is backtracking.
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