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...street protests in Beirut aimed at forcing out Syrian troops are only the most dramatic of a series of developments that underscore the pressure on the region?s longtime autocrats. Many of those autocrats, of course, are traditional U.S. allies who now find themselves wedged between a mounting democratic clamor from their own people and a cold shoulder from their traditional backers in Washington, whose leader has warned friend and foe alike that he?s no longer willing to tolerate tyranny and repression...
...same way he entered Iraq-precipitously, declaring a crisis where none exists, creating a solution that promises to be disastrous. They were also, privately, mystified. Why was George W. Bush choosing to waste his honeymoon political capital on this particular can of worms? The polls indicate no great public clamor to change the system (and the Democrats were right about the absence of a crisis-there is a Social Security problem; there is a Medicare crisis). Indeed, there were rumblings of discontent among congressional Republicans, some of whom still aspire to fiscal responsibility and fear that the President's proposal...
...same way he entered Iraq--precipitously, declaring a crisis where none exists, creating a solution that promises to be disastrous. They were also, privately, mystified. Why was George W. Bush choosing to waste his honeymoon political capital on this particular can of worms? The polls indicate no great public clamor to change the system (and the Democrats were right about the absence of a crisis--there is a Social Security problem; there is a Medicare crisis). Indeed, there were rumblings of discontent among congressional Republicans, some of whom still aspire to fiscal responsibility and fear that the President's proposal...
Bush's faith in democracy as a salve for extremism and violence can startle even his closest advisers. Rice says that during a meeting on Iraq with his top national-security aides last November, he demanded to know why the Administration was resisting Iraqis' clamor for elections. "'How did we get on the wrong side of this issue?'" Rice recalls Bush saying. "'How could it be that the United States of America is standing on the side against elections?' It was a very stark statement that kind of pulled everybody back." Bush's stump speech in the campaign's final...
...music and films like Dragon Inn throughout his film. The original Dragon Inn was a wuxia pian (martial arts movies) 1966 bestseller in Chinese, which opened the door to a new wuxia genre with its simple melodies and lyrical setting in the old inn in contrast to the spectacular clamor of those which came before...