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...West, part of the answer lies in holding African governments accountable for the graft and misrule that sow popular disgruntlement. The West largely contents itself with the appearance of democracy in Africa, not the reality, and gives billions of dollars in aid to corrupt governments. "The World Bank runs around establishing anti-corruption commissions," says Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington who was in Kenya for the vote. "They have been singularly ineffective." In Kenya the IMF and the World Bank suspended aid in 2006 but later resumed it. Threats...
...year ago as the apparent front runner, an awkward role for a free-ranging, fence-jumping, kick-the-corral maverick. McCain never got the hang of it, breaking with his party's mainstream on tax cuts, immigration, harsh interrogation of terrorist suspects - the list goes on. By July his bank account and his poll numbers were in a race to zero, which turned out to be a blessing...
Thanks to all these precautions, Bush's foray into the West Bank passed without a hitch. But the real challenge for the presidential phalanx of bodyguards will come when his tour moves on to possibly more dangerous territory - Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt - where Bush is even less popular. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem
...essential diplomatic step in breaking the long impasse between the parties. As Arabs see it, Bush's failure over the last seven years to exercise decisive U.S. influence over Israel, a close American ally, has simply enabled the Jewish state to expand its settlements throughout the occupied West Bank and made a viable Palestinian state much harder to achieve...
...venturing into the Palestinian West Bank was another matter. Palestinian militants are no friends to Bush, who is viewed as fervently pro-Israeli and a "vampire" out to suck Muslim blood. Nor did it help that an al-Qaeda member - a Jewish American convert to Islam - had issued a communique urging Muslims to greet the President "not with roses and applause, but with bombs and booby-traps...