The United States has earmarked $350,000 for the training and education of the Libyan military, a small amount compared with the U.S. military engagement with Libya's neighbors and hardly enough to help rebuild Libya's defense institutions.
To the Editor: I wholeheartedly endorse David Brooks's defense of institutions and the role they play in giving meaning to our lives.
I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F.
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Professor Carl Thayer, a former Southeast Asia regional specialist at numerous Australian defense education institutions, expected that, "Vietnam will focus its attention on getting some form of unity in ASEAN particularly as it will be chairing a ministerial meeting later in the year.
The standoff in North America led to the French-English wars of the 18th century in which beleaguered colonists increasingly looked to their own defenses and institutions, a trend that culminated in the American Revolution.
The principles he held onto included a defense of the institution of slavery and a rejection of democracy and freedom of speech.
At the same time, others gathered to pray and march in defense of an institution that they believe should be shared only between a man and a woman.
Healy's testimony, a lame duck's defense of an institution that had just thrown her out, was almost painful to watch.
The case against affirmative action, for instance, has become an argument in defense of the institution of higher learning — which is, apparently, so fragile that it will crumble in the face of a few sub-par test scores.
