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...government spends a good part of their waking hours figuring out what batch of lies they're going to tell us next. I don't believe most of what I'm told by the politicians. I think virtually everything they say for public consumption is said with an agenda. I just don't think that we have a very honest relationship with our government in this country, and it makes me angry...
...especially when delivered via news alerts on an iPhone screen—when it directly affects so few of us. The supposed purpose of General Education is to focus on “the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.” Despite this agenda, the University and University Council administrations have done little to foster civic participation among its students...
...groups by driving them into the embrace of extremists. "The problem with Benazir is that her coming to power will increase polarization. She is seen as pro-West, and she is very clear about it." Sharif himself has made it clear that combating militancy would be top of his agenda were he, or his party, to lead Pakistan. "You can't fight terror the way Mr. Musharraf is fighting," he told CNN. "He needs the threat of terror for his own survival. We will fight out of conviction...
...forced to make such local-level arrangements to deal with local-level problems, that's because the central government is an ineffective vehicle for the U.S. agenda, or, indeed, for any sort of governance right now. Having conceded to the principle of Iraqi sovereignty, however, Washington is in no position to change Iraq's government...
America has called Musharraf its best ally in the war on terror. Do you think Nawaz Sharif would be better? I wouldn?t call it America?s war on terror. Terrorism is our own fight as well, and if it coincides with the American agenda or the international agenda well that?s fine. But we feel, and I am quite convinced, that without fighting terrorism Pakistan cannot prosper. Pakistan can never become a forward-looking progressive nation. I think by our acts we have demonstrated this commitment. When Nawaz Sharif was Prime Minister in 1997, we were combating a different...