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...hemispheric doctrine of "dialogue and engagement" can work. The more imperious Latin America policy practiced by past U.S. administrations often actively supported military coups in the region. The agreement is also a rebuff to the congressional conservatives who have held up key diplomatic appointments (including Shannon's as Ambassador to Brazil) to protest Obama's designation of Zelaya's ouster as a coup...
...recommended in 2007 for an ambassadorial post abroad by then-U.S. ambassador Ronald Neumann, as a way for President Karzai to avoid political embarrassment...
...defendant, an unemployed Russian émigré identified only as Alex W., could spark more unrest. In Egypt, where el-Sherbini has been dubbed by the media as the "headscarf martyr," people are expecting "justice to be administered in a swift way," Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, Egypt's ambassador to Germany, told al-Jazeera. (See pictures of Islam's soft revolution...
This means that the future of Georgia once again rests almost entirely on the balance between Saakashvili's good and bad impulses. The case of Irakli Alasania, Georgia's former U.N. ambassador and the country's most credible opposition figure, may provide insight into which side of the President prevails. Several weeks before he officially made the announcement, Alasania told me he was planning to run next spring for mayor of Tbilisi, with the former public defender Subari on his ticket. Allowing such well-respected statesmen to run a free campaign would instantly legitimize the idea of multiparty democracy...
...Despite the criticism, Gration has had regular, direct access to Obama, circumventing various members of the National Security Council, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice - all of whom have lobbied for Gration to take the Sudan policy in a different direction. Rice in particular stands in opposition to Gration's approach to Sudan. In 1998 she was instrumental in President Bill Clinton's decision to send 18 cruise missiles slamming into a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory (it was thought to produce chemical weapons for al-Qaeda) in retaliation for the U.S.-embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya...