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...Iraqi government are operating under what they feel is a historical mandate to undo centuries of injustice against them by Sunnis. In practice, this means giving the Sunnis no quarter in negotiations. "The Shi'ites feel they are carrying the burden of history and that they will betray their entire community if they agree to even one concession," says an Iraqi political analyst who asked not be be named. "This is not a matter of practical politics. It is a holy duty...
...While many of us would rightly reject this caricature, we would not waste too much time doing so. Dwelling too long on the elaborate tapestry of social rules and symbols that would separate a country bumpkin from a blue blood at Harvard would betray an unhealthy obsession with status—as if one’s admissions letter was not enough to allay feelings of social insecurity...
...head on May 1 when Turkey's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of elections in Parliament that would have made Gul President. Handpicked by his longtime ally Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gul was ahead in the ballot, but the court, in a ruling that appeared to betray its secularist bias, upheld claims by Turkey's main secularist political party that the balloting was unconstitutional because a quorum wasn't present-no matter that the opposition engineered that shortfall by boycotting the vote, or that at least one President had previously been elected with a smaller quorum. Faced with...
...supremacists that have rained terror on the region's ethnic African villages. Leaders of Darfur's rebel groups based in eastern Chad tell TIME that they believe several Janjaweed leaders are now close to joining the rebels. Their defection would be spurred by fear that the Sudan government may betray Janjaweed commanders to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they would face war crimes charges. And the rebels seem remarkably ready to welcome into their ranks the men who have been the frontline troops of a vicious campaign of murder, rape, pillage and ethnic cleansing...
Bring Home the Brave? Thanks to Michael Kinsley for engaging the myth that to question the validity of the Iraq war is to betray the troops in the field [March 5]. Equating support for soldiers with military escalation is insidious. True support would be to remove them from harm's way. But I take exception to your affirmation that the cause-to remove a dictator-was worthy. That's just as dishonest as saying we need to continue the war to support the troops. Is the civil war that we unleashed a noble cause? Or was the arrogant pretext...