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...dispatch troops abroad, mainly for peacekeeping or humanitarian missions. Volker Perthes, director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, an independent think tank, says the photos - and the response to them - demonstrate how unprepared Germany has been to find itself in a far more violent and unpredictable conflict than the one it signed up for back in 2001. What started as a peacekeeping assignment as part of a multinational "stabilization" force, he says, has degenerated into a war zone, with very little reassessment of the mission back home. "It's very unhealthy," he says, "to have our troops...
...Oaxaca conflict was also fueled by the crisis over the July presidential election, in which conservative Felipe Calderon of Fox's National Action Party (PAN) defeated the PRD's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by less than 1% of the vote. Lopez Obrador cried fraud, and tens of thousands of his backers occupied Mexico City's main plaza and thoroughfare for months in protest. But in recent weeks the Mexico City demonstrations had died down, and last week even the Oaxaca teachers seemed ready to go back to work...
...Civic leaders like Alcantar hope that the Federal forces can tamp down the violence and restore peaceful dialogue. "We have to get our institutions working together again for real economic development and real jobs," Alcantar conceded, reflecting on the root causes of the conflict. As Calderon gets set to take office December 1, that's the challenge not only for Oaxaca, but for all of Mexico...
...fueled theories that that President Hu and his predecessor are engaged in a factional power struggle. Thus when Jiang and Hu appeared together last weekend to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Communists' historic Long March, many speculated that they were making a show of solidarity to mask factional conflict...
...grow more radical, more unstable and less amenable to U.S. influence. And that's not to mention the prosepct of future Darfurs, which the next President will find even tougher to stop, given the American public's growing aversion to foreign adventures and the military's inevitable, post-Iraq conflict fatigue...