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...says, "and why those things are important to them and to me." But Hong Kong is no longer as straightforward to govern as it was during British colonial times. Besides accommodating Beijing, the Chief Executive has to balance powerful local interests, especially a conservative business sector, with a growing civil-society movement agitating about everything from higher wages to "universal suffrage" (the local political jargon for full, direct elections) to clean air. Once known for their political apathy, Hong Kongers now want a greater role in the running of their city. Though he won't say it outright, Tsang knows...
...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 of imposing Western values on an ancient civilization really camouflage for establishing military bases in the Middle East and expanding the American empire? Nels Henry, Canton, Illinois...
...going in. We have to stick around and clean up the mess. If the coalition were to pull out now, it would leave behind a very unstable, weak nation at the mercy of its neighbors. Iran considers itself the new big dog in the yard and is fueling the civil war in Iraq. How long would it be before Iran moved in for the kill? If it were allowed to take over Iraq, Iran would be the most powerful nation in the region and fearless in confronting the West. Iran is a big dog penned up in its yard...
...civil rights lawyers working for minorities in Israel spoke to Harvard’s Progressive Jewish Alliance at Hillel yesterday about the plight of the Bedouin minority in Israel. Morad El-Sana and Gil Gan-Mor, both law fellows at the Israeli human rights foundation New Israel Fund (NIF), told the group of 14 people at the event that having studied the American civil rights movement will be instructive when they return to advocate minority rights in Israel. “NIF has beliefs that are similar to ours,” said Jaclyn B. Granick...
...While such allegiance has its merits, it does begin to fray amid a long, drawn-out war. Rumsfeld notoriously refused to see the forces arrayed against the U.S. as guerrillas - when even his military commanders were using the word. Then he refused to agree that a civil war was ravaging the country. All the bickering did was to give his Washington foes a fat, juicy target to criticize - and his attitude curbed the military's enthusiasm to explore new and different ways of grappling with the growing insurgency, Pentagon officials...