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...they use ideology as a tool," says Mark Fowler of Persia House, which monitors Iranian developments. "They support the Islamic revolution because it has been good to them, but they are not raving fanatics." Says Hillary Mann Leverett, a former director of Iran and Afghanistan affairs in George W. Bush's National Security Council: "These people are not just shock troops for the regime. They are a much more sophisticated organization...
...emissions, and therefore energy use, will hurt economic growth and their ability to eradicate poverty. This is immoral, they say, especially because the West had a couple centuries of growth unhindered by emission caps. Western capitals point out that growth will be irrelevant if global warming continues. During the Bush Administration, Washington also argued that there was no point to the U.S. and other rich nations reducing their emissions unless China and India agreed to limits. Developing nations contribute a minority of emissions now, but in a few years they will become the biggest emitters and their actions will decide...
This is the second time Schwarzenegger has held a global warming conference focused on what state and local governments can do about climate change, and it couldn't come at a more appropriate time. While Washington under President George W. Bush all but ignored climate change, California - with the Republican Schwarzenegger sometimes leading and sometimes following - embarked on its own green path, passing a landmark carbon-emissions cap for the state in 2006 and aggressively promoting renewable energy. Today, California's clean-tech sector is a rare bright spot in a state that is struggling with economic problems. California...
...Obama policy of focusing on firing, not raids that would result in deportation, is a notable improvement over the Bush administration’s approach. Though economically damaging, at least the firings allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States rather than being sent home as they would have been under the old regime...
Solana hailed the level of participation by the U.S. at Geneva, which clearly represented a break from the narrow terms on which the Bush Administration had backed the European-led diplomacy. Whereas William Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, had been restricted from delivering much more than prepared remarks at the last meeting of this forum in 2008, this time he held what U.S. officials called a "significant conversation" directly with his Iranian counterpart, Jalili, on the sidelines - the highest level of direct conversation between the U.S. and Iran in decades. State Department spokesman Robert Wood described...