Georgie Anne Geyer
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Geyer: Remembering quiet crusader Mahmoud Cherif BassiouniOct 11, 2017 1:00 am - During and after the Iraq War, there seemed to be endless questioning about America's moral place in the world. One topic was the use of "enhanced interrogation," as the...
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A feminist surpriseSep 29, 2017 1:00 am - When the modern women's movement jumped into gear in the 1970s, one of the most impassioned hopes of many was that women, once in power, would change the world. Woman's ...
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Correspondents get the story right -- in Vietnam and AfghanistanSep 21, 2017 1:00 am - Ken Burns' brilliant television exposition "The Vietnam War" not surprisingly brought forth in me, as with many other Americans, old and troubling memories. From the fir...
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Let's erect monuments to the best among usAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - In the mid-'90s, after the Soviet Union collapsed, I went to an old park in Moscow where the Russians had deposited pieces of the monuments of the "great" communist lead...
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The center is not holdingAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer Many years ago, when Chile was on the verge of civil war, a Belgian Jesuit priest named Father Roger Vekemans impressed me with his unsentimental c...
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Echoes of Vietnam reverberate in AfghanistanAug 10, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer You will be forgiven for confessing that you are confused about where we are going in Afghanistan. You might also add that you still are not sure w...
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Geyer: Two quiet world leaders offer inspirationAug 02, 2017 11:00 pm - By Georgia Anne Geyer Searching the globe this summer, one could easily be overwhelmed by the question: "Are there any countries with leaders we can look up to anymore?"...
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Venezuelan chaos has roots in CubaJul 28, 2017 1:00 am - Something is not quite right about this summer's stories from Venezuela, that immensely resource-rich but impoverished Latin American nation seemingly headed toward civi...
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Victory in Mosul overshadowed by White House dramaticsJul 21, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer The television news has been filled almost exclusively recently with stories about the "terrible" son of the president and his apparent flirtations...
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An American president's subservience toward RussiaJul 21, 2017 1:00 am - In the normal course of events, the revelation of attempted collusion with Russia to determine the outcome of a presidential election might cause an administration to ov...