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Rather than confront the spooky prospect of putting aside their partisanship for Halloween, several students turned to politics for inspiration...
Whomever the American people elect as president tomorrow will be forced to confront this interminable war and its staggering costs. Whoever he is, he will be defined by his ability to resolve these exorbitant commitments without abandoning languishing domestic concerns...
...voters now are having to confront the prospect that this campaign, rare in its combination of passion and poison, may end neither quickly nor well. In the darkest vision, Nov. 2 will be a day of apocalypse, with battalions of volunteers, geeks, cops, feds and assorted party watchdogs guarding the polls; 20,000 lawyers riding into battle, brandishing suits challenging the results in half a dozen states; campaign war rooms spitting out charges of fraud and intimidation; and branches of government built to balance and cool one another instead starting to melt. The fact that the last presidential election...
...dilemmas don't end there. With such a sizable force tied down in Iraq, whoever is President will have fewer military options for curtailing, for example, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. He will confront a seething Muslim world unsettled by the war in Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians. And he may well see bin Laden--inspired extremists try to overthrow the government in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, procure weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or stage another attack on U.S. soil--or all of the above...
...common refrain I hear is how low our standing is. That's going to be a major challenge to the next President." The failure to find WMD in Iraq dealt a devastating blow to the credibility of U.S. intelligence, compromising the U.S.'s ability to rally allies to confront Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs. Kerry's natural attachment to Europe--he spent part of his youth there and speaks fluent French, passable Italian and Spanish, and a little German--could help mend relations with European allies that have recoiled from the Administration's policies, such as France...