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...Spiegel, the German weekly news magazine—and if anything the Obama as Messiah image has only become more prevalent in the months since his election. He now enjoys an 83 percent approval rating, 22 and 15 percentage points higher than his two immediate predecessors, George Bush and Bill Clinton, respectively. As throngs of supporters estimated at 1.8 million descended upon Washington, D.C. for the Second Coming (I count myself among their ranks), Obama as Messiah has reached a fever pitch...
What brought them to Washington, on flights that turned into airborne pep rallies, on buses that left at midnight, on foot from the four corners of a city on lockdown? "The cataclysm of joy," said the bohemian from Brooklyn, N.Y. A chance to throw a shoe at President Bush, said the disenchanted Republican. To celebrate the fact that anything is possible, said the Apache from Arizona. Some people brought with them mementos of those who could not come. Jenny Allen, a 38-year-old fundraiser from West Virginia, wore a laminated picture of her great-aunt, an elegant lady...
...troops in Iraq within 16 months. In part, that's because Obama has said he will listen to commanders if they begin to feel the withdrawal is jeopardizing the uneasy peace there. But he has also benefited from the recently signed deal between Iraq and the Bush Administration calling for removal of virtually all U.S. troops from the country within three years...
...Bush Administration's strategy for Afghanistan was largely defined by its absence of one. Once the Taliban were defeated, U.S. troops remained here in a mostly counterterrorism capacity that ultimately proved self-defeating. Terrorists cannot be wiped out if the factors that lead to the creation of new terrorists - indoctrination, fear, poverty and lack of education, foreign influences and sanctuaries across the border - are not also eliminated. Despite a steady increase of troops in Afghanistan from both the U.S. and NATO, the Taliban insurgency, all but defeated in 2001, has grown in strength and capacity. More of the same...
...Seven years and billions of dollars have brought Afghanistan no closer to the peaceful democracy that George W. Bush promised at the beginning of the war. Instead, the country more closely resembles the warlord-led kleptocracy of the 1990s that led to the rise of the Taliban in the first place. Corruption is the defining characteristic of the central government, and President Hamid Karzai is largely seen as an American puppet unable to rein in the excesses of government ministers or even his own family. And he's not even a good puppet - Karzai routinely and publicly berates his foreign...