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...Only in America can one generation be an ambassador to the United States, and the next generation be an ambassador of the United States,” he said...
...Iraqification" only works on a security level if it occurs with a transfer of political authority to Iraqis. That may be why Ambassador Paul Bremer is now talking of accelerating the process by which Iraqis adopt a new constitution and elect a government. But constitution-making is a deeply contentious business in Iraq, which has, pretty much since it was constituted as a nation-state by the British after World War I, been ruled by the Sunni minority. The Shiite majority, naturally, insist on nothing short of a majoritarian democracy, while the Kurds demand the right to govern northern Iraq...
...Afghanistan in 1989. Now, says the diplomat, who has access to intelligence reports, "they are coming across in hundreds." The U.N. Security Council met in closed consultations late last week to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. "It is really very bad, much worse than Iraq," says a senior ambassador who took part. He fears the country could devolve into a lawless free-for-all, with international troops caught in the middle...
...leaking of Plame's identity as a CIA operative was terrible. The culprit should be found and hanged. Her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, however, could easily have predicted the consequences of accusing the Administration of exaggerating the Iraqi threat, as Wilson did in his op-ed piece in the New York Times. Wilson had a responsibility to consider the Administration's probable response and to put aside his own agenda in order to protect his wife and the mother of his children. Wilson is every bit as despicable as the leaker. No man should risk the well-being...
...however, Mallya astonished everyone by deciding to enter politics. Although big business has always been a crucial source of campaign funds, politicians have traditionally maintained an air of Gandhian poverty, dressing in hand-spun clothes and driving battered domestic Ambassador automobiles. Mallya, by contrast, openly celebrates his wealth, and with his wife and two daughters in America and a son at school in England, his connection to India sometimes seems tenuous. Nonetheless, Mallya ran for an indirect election (in which votes are cast only by members of state legislatures) to India's largely ceremonial upper house of Parliament...