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...Look, I could have joined the U.N. and become an ambassador and visited various countries and just kind of showed up and smiled and looked concerned. But that's not getting to the root of the problem-and by the way, neither is building orphan care centers and giving people food and medicine. But it's a start. I'm saving people's lives. And whether I have earned the right to do it, or the respect of people who think I may not have the right to do it, is completely and utterly irrelevant. And in any event...
...Western official in the Green Zone told TIME he had received several angry calls from political figures, expressing "a cold fury" at what they interpreted as American arrogance and insensitivity. "To them, the fact that [U.S. Ambassador Zalmay] Khalilzad didn't pick up the phone and tell [Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri] al-Maliki shows the Americans simply don't care about Iraqi opinion," says the diplomat. "If Abu Ghraib was a p.r. calamity, then this is Part II-another disaster...
Last Saturday, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to one of his aides, warned the U.S. ambassador that he was "not America's man in Iraq." On Tuesday he drove home the point, ordering an end to the U.S. military cordon around the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City - a demand with which the U.S. military complied. Although U.S. troops don't take orders from the Iraqi government, refusing to heed the writ of that democratically elected government would make the U.S. military presence in that country untenable. The U.S. did point out that it had been...
...flow, and South Korea doesn’t want to support the entire North Korean population,” Linton said. “China is not in our car and will not help us push North Korea to the wall.” South Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations, Choi Young-jin, who was also at the talk, maintained that North Korea would outlast the pressure to disarm. “Iran’s nuclear program is motivated by aspiration,” he said, “while North Korea?...
...real test will be how all six parties react once the talks resume - assuming, of course, the talks really do resume this year. (It's best to mark your calendar in pencil when you're dealing with North Korea.) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters earlier this month that North Korea simply returning to the talks wouldn't be enough for the U.S. to relax sanctions - a position Hill reiterated in Beijing...