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...failed to establish or describe any objective criteria by which other countries can aspire to achieve this type of legitimacy. Bush’s decision, instead, sends an ambiguous message to the international community. The U.S., it seems, is prepared to grant nuclear legitimacy to those it likes and condemn those it does not, and that will determine the legitimacy of a nuclear power. This type of unilateral hubris will continue to push the U.S. further apart from the international community, whose support it needs...
...first Gulf War, ordered a massive campaign of murder and repression of Shi'ites. Now politically ascendant, some Shi'ites want reckoning for those and other historical wrongs. They regard the assassination of Sunnis by death squads as eye-for-an-eye justice. Even some moderate Shi'ites, who condemn extrajudicial killings, view Sunnis as deluded losers who are supporting terrorist groups in a futile bid to regain their monopoly on power...
...reputation. In the south, Muslim-majority provinces are wracked by ethnic conflict, violence that Thaksin's critics say has been exacerbated by his administration's heavy-handed military response to unrest, which won international notoriety when 78 people died in police custody after being arrested in Oct. 2004. Opponents condemn Thaksin's placement of relatives in key positions-his cousin, General Chaisit Shinawatra, was first made army chief and then the military's supreme commander, and his brother-in-law Priawpan Damapong serves as deputy chief of the national police. And long-running allegations of corruption in a contract...
Despite our best efforts, illusions invariably end. And if leaders like Morales choose the wrong waters for their already beaten barges, they will only condemn their constituencies to poverty and instability when commodity prices fall or fossil fuels run out. The end to García Márquez’s “hundred years of solitude” for this region might lie in la gauche, but only in a lawful, democratic and realist...
That scheme had come to seem impossibly harsh. Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit publication America who has performed many baptisms: "My idea of God is not a God who would condemn a baby to an imperfect life for eternity." Many priests have downplayed limbo out of similar concerns, and Martin lauds the Vatican panel for "bringing theological development in line with pastoral application...