Those courts, however, have never taken a very independent view of any form of Kurdish self-assertion.

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For all their cultural self-assertion, the French drink plenty of Coca-Cola and eat a lot of Big Macs.

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Repeated US assertion of its self-interests also gives the impression that all non-US-citizens are less important.

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Even though the folly of the get-out-of-jail-free card Mr. Powell once tried to provide the Iraqi dictator is today self-evident, the Secretary has nonetheless made a similar assertion with respect to Hamas: It would be considered "different" if just one troubling aspect of its behavior was altered.

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