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...riots were brief but intense, featuring an unprecedented level of gun violence. And even as the fires died down, the underlying problems continued to boil. In the nation's poorest banlieues, where the residents are mostly black and Arab, jobless rates often near 40%. And Sarkozy has long been known as "the most hated man in the projects"--a reputation he earned before the last rioting, in 2005, when the then Interior Minister used racially charged language to denounce suburban thuggery...
...revisionist history and contending that the two men did not meet until the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 1996. The Taliban that met with US forces in 2001 was a far cry from the Taliban that rose in the mid-1990s, having been manipulated by outside Arab and Pakistani forces including bin Laden, who was able to climb his way into the upper echelons of Taliban leadership. With no help coming from the international community, internal Taliban moderates were silenced. The United Nations’ tough stance on dealings with the Taliban only served to increase anti-Western...
...greatest sign of hope for peace in the Middle East didn't come on Nov. 27 in Annapolis, Md., when President George W. Bush convened a new round of Arab-Israeli talks. It came a month earlier, across the Chesapeake Bay in the little village of St. Michaels, as Bush signed an Executive Order protecting red drum fish and striped bass. Bush was on his way to lunch with Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a waterfront home there, and the President opened his signing remarks by saying that Laura Bush had gone ahead to the lunch. "I guess...
...joke. But that unguarded comment offered a rare glimpse at the split that has opened up between Bush and his hard-line Veep. Since 2001, Cheney has been against just the kind of U.S. involvement in Arab-Israeli affairs that Bush is embracing, arguing that the early creation of a Palestinian state could jeopardize Israel's security. And the peace talks are part of a larger trend. In the past two years, Bush has negotiated with the North Koreans over their nuclear weapons and offered the Iranians incentives to talk about their nuclear ambitions, sometimes directly overruling Cheney...
...defeat the spoilers this time is to ignore any violence they sponsor and persevere toward the goal of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement. Such an approach has merit, given that a majority of Israelis and Arabs desire peace and thus opponents could be scorned for prolonging misery and hopelessness. The problem is that Olmert and Abbas are politically very weak, thanks to past failures in peace and war, and will find it difficult to behave like statesmen in the event of new violence...