Opinion topic: International affairs
Aiding the poor is not political
Bill Gates in his 2007 commencement address to Harvard students said, “We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism – we can stretch the reach… Read »
Middle East conflict extends beyond religion
Last week in Wait Chapel, Iranian-American author and political analyst Vali Nasr delivered an interesting and informative lecture on how the division between Shi’a and Sunni Muslims influences the… Read »
Rhetoric on Iran gone too far
The president of Iran is evil. He is amassing resources and technology to build nuclear weapons. In fact, he probably already has nuclear weapons. He wants to wipe Israel off the map and he is terrorizing… Read »
Americans have right to form own opinions
Image what would have happened if President Nathan O. Hatch introduced former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall at the immigration conference Oct. 3 by condemning the incompetence of the Carter administration.… Read »
Leader has not earned respect
This is in response to sophomores Monica Petrescu and Kyle Grochmal’s Oct. 4 guest column (“Treatment of leader unfair”) conveying their opinion of the circumstances and events surrounding… Read »
Treatment of leader unfair
The “Axis of Evil” scheme has already been brainwashed into most Americans. However, the ethnocentrism and ignorance demonstrated by American people, officials and intellectual leaders in the… Read »
Administration continues to fail in Iraq
General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker delivered long-awaited congressional testimonies last week on the military and political progress achieved in Iraq. Unfortunately, this supposedly nonpartisan… Read »
Beware the cloak of ignorance
While people born between 1984-1994 have been tagged by some as “Generation Y,” not all the labels applied to the college and high-school age populations are quite as benign. Other classifications include… Read »