Nation
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Immigration and American PowerCAMBRIDGE – The United States is a
nation
of immigrants.
But, despite being a
nation
of immigrants, more Americans are skeptical about immigration than are sympathetic to it.
If we identify ourselves with the nation, our morality remains national.
Once the colonies had achieved independence – Saudi Arabia, today a Sunni regional power, was created in 1932 – a new attempt was made to unite the Arab
nation
by means of the political Islam that emerged in the 1920’s in response to the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate.
Since a failed coup attempt in 2016, Turkey’s courts have processed some 46,000 cases involving people accused of insulting the president, the nation, or its institutions.
America is and always will be a Pacific
nation.
I am optimistic that some
nation
will come to the rescue – but we must not risk this happening too late, or not at all.
Here he combines old-fashioned German patriotism with a determination to weld his
nation
into the European Union.
A single non-cooperating
nation
could undo much of others’ efforts.
Our Arab neighbors should never be trusted; hence, as Jabotinski preached, the new Israeli
nation
must erect an Iron Wall of Jewish power to deter its enemies forever.
Not until occupation ends, Israel lives within internationally recognized borders, and the Palestinians recover their dignity as a
nation
will the Jewish state’s existence be finally secured.
A month before, it seems safe to assume, many of these people had never heard of his native land, a landlocked African
nation
of about 13 million people bordering Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania.
“The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole
nation
of happiness should be abhorrent and detestable,” he wrote, “even if it does not sow the decay of the whole civilized life of Europe.”
But, while early Zionism was blessed with pragmatism and diplomatic savoir-faire, the preponderance of the military ethos of the
nation
in arms has relegated Zionism’s extraordinary foreign-policy achievements to a remote corner of Israelis’ collective memory.
We will be told about the inner wisdom of a
nation
that already knew the outcome and wished, without saying so, to avoid the appearance of an excessive victory.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright liked to describe the US as the “indispensable nation.”
And since, in addition, the Commission and the Parliament have traditionally tended to regard each other as essential allies (on the side of European integration), against the Council of Ministers (representing the
nation
states), it is not surprising that a censure vote has only been tried four times in the past 20 years, and never carried.
It is possible to have full employment in some remote village even though no businesses are hiring in that neighborhood, or even in that
nation.
The US is now the only Western industrialized
nation
to retain the death penalty for murder.
This year Israel is celebrating both the 100th anniversary of the founding of Zionism and its 50th anniversary as an independent
nation.
For a persecuted, state-less and powerless
nation
this is a major achievement.
International goodwill will probably be the key to his success, if not in re-establishing American hegemony, then at least in making America the “indispensable nation” once more.
When this new power is a
nation
of 1.3 billion people living under an alien political system and ideology, its rise is bound to cause even more uneasiness.
Sterile isolationism runs counter to America’s self-conception as a
nation
with a global mission.
Russians would rather have a “father of the nation,” no matter the title – czar, general secretary, president, or prime minister – than follow laws and rules.
But Ariel Sharon's government should not be allowed to use the Palestinians' utter failure at peaceful
nation
building as an alibi for continued occupation.
Joining the euro was certainly ruinous for Greece, but there is always “a great deal of ruin in a nation,” as Adam Smith remarked 250 years ago, when losing the American colonies seemed to threaten Britain with financial devastation.
In Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked mountainous
nation
with a history of civil unrest and quick government overthrows, local politicians are furious about the US Defense Department’s recent decision to renew a controversial fuel-supply contract for the air base at Manas, a key hub for air operations over Afghanistan.
Even if America is no longer the world’s only superpower, it still remains the “indispensable nation.”
There is no other example of a
nation
that returned after a 2,000-year absence to a territory that it never stopped regarding as its homeland.
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