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...what does Somalia receive? Around 4,800 African Union troops from Burundi and Uganda. Last month, the British ambassador to the U.N. assured reporters in the capital of neighboring Ethiopia that although U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has so far demurred on Somalia, "the question of a United Nations peacekeeping mission remains on the table...
...That is precisely what Ahmadinejad wanted to achieve," said one dispirited Moussavi supporter. "He wanted to redirect people's hatred of corrupt politicians to Moussavi's person, although Moussavi himself is known to be clean...
...years before the collapse of the economy and the World Trade Center towers, political discourse in the U.S. was, too often, rutted in issues that didn't affect the lives of most people. They were important moral and symbolic issues, to be sure. And they were difficult issues, although their subtleties were obscured by extremists, who tended to dominate the debate. Still, the people directly affected by the so-called social issues - abortion, gay marriage, racial preferences - pale in comparison with the tens of millions who have lost their jobs and fortunes in the past year and with the global...
Obama has suggested that Sotomayor might have chosen her words differently when, in a 2001 speech, she suggested that a Latina raised in a poor neighborhood had an advantage over a privileged white male in judging cases that involved impoverished minorities. Perhaps she should have - although we seem to have reached a quiet consensus that Sotomayor is right, that our national diversity is a splendid advantage in matters of justice and culture. You want to have powerful Latinas - and others, the full panoply of American types - helping make big decisions, not just on the Supreme Court, but in boardrooms, schools...
...also address the issue of Iraq. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible. Indeed, we can recall the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said: "I hope that our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power...