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...skepticism. Pakistani leaders have passed the hat before, yet little of the $10 billion in U.S. military aid sent to Islamabad since 9/11 has been used to fight the extremists. Previous military operations have ended with peace deals that gave Pakistan's militants larger, safer sanctuaries. Some members of Congress are asking quite why--given all that U.S. aid--the Pakistani army has found it so hard to defeat the militants...
...House to loosen the purse strings. Pakistan was once a country that most in the U.S. knew little about. But the more Americans learn about it, the less likely they are to think that all there is rosy. It will take more than TV footage for Zardari to convince Congress--and public opinion--that his country deserves the assistance he seeks...
...open and accessible. But in 1942, the court upheld President Roosevelt's tribunals for the eight accused German saboteurs in the failed scheme known as Operation Pastorius. More recently the court slapped down the Bush Administration's planned commissions in three separate cases, ruling among other things that only Congress can establish the tribunals; that some protections of the Geneva Conventions must extend to prisoners; and that the prisoners' right to habeas corpus cannot be suspended. Obama's decision to revive the commissions virtually ensures those battles will draw...
...winds; when the right was in charge, people feared the return of coat hangers in back alleys. Now that the left leads, they fear abortion on demand. The very meaning of the labels adjusts; calling yourself pro-choice at a time when a liberal Democratic President and allies in Congress are lifting abortion restraints may imply no qualms at all, and that's not where most people...
India's benchmark stock index on Monday surged a stunning 17%, a record one-day gain powered by investor euphoria over a resounding victory in nationwide elections by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party...