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...grim realities faced by the people in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan [April 2]. Every possible effort should be made to pacify negative elements there. This requires coordinated efforts by locals, the Afghan and Pakistani governments and coalition forces. Even so, it is mind-boggling that so much blame is heaped on Pakistan. How is it possible that the coalition forces right across the border are not able to stop negative elements from crossing into Afghanistan? Is there any responsible force in control on the Afghan side? Muhammad Anas Mansoori, Karachi...
...politicians are not to blame. They are saying things they regret at approximately the same rate as in the past. Just the other day, even after all that we have gone through over Imus, implausible presidential candidate Thompson, former Governor of Wisconsin, told a Jewish group that making money was part of the Jewish tradition. Thank you, Governor. Thanks to all the politicians. Ladies and gentlemen, keep...
...soft drink. Soon afterward, similar reports appeared in France and other European countries. Coke responded slowly, he says, and underestimated how quickly Europe's simmering anti-Americanism would snowball into a p.r. disaster. "When outrage takes over, there is no emotion more powerful than the urge to place blame," Dezenhall says. "Coke found itself the beneficiary of an entire continent's wrath for a nonlethal problem...
...Blaming Bush for the failures at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is a bit unfair, and I am not one to defend him. There isn't a veteran out there who doesn't know that the military health-care system was a mess long before Bush became President. The blame for Walter Reed must rest primarily on the shoulders of the Army...
...settled on many of the issues that suit it and the times. It has rolled out bite-sized policy chunks on its major themes of education, child care, industrial relations, federalism and business regulation. The impasse between the Commonwealth and states is neatly captured by Rudd as a "blame game." Terms like "infrastructure" and "skills" are now in common use as shorthand for government failure. Just enough policy detail is being released to maintain momentum. But for now, at least, Labor's new pragmatism and micro policy steps limit the government's ability to slap it down...