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The curious bronze statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama quickly turned into a tourist attraction. Foreigners flocked to the park in Jakarta to honor the U.S. President, who spent four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital. Locals visited too, but they weren't as pleased. "Indonesians...
Asia matters for America. After Canada and Mexico, China is the third biggest consumer of American goods, followed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the 10-country bloc that under U.S. prodding was founded in the 1960s as a bulwark against communism. The global recovery from the Great...
In January, when most of Attorney General Eric Holder's friends and enemies turned against his plan to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, one man stood by him. And he was a good friend to have. At a Situation Room session on...
But even with the President's affirmation, Holder was fighting a losing battle. The public backlash against a civilian KSM trial had already cost the White House the support of many Democratic leaders in New York. Republicans, meanwhile, were busy turning Holder into the poster child for White House weakness...
At first it appeared that Holder would carry the day. "I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York, who specialize in terrorism," Obama said after the announcement. In private he was even more supportive of Holder. When...