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...will not come from solely increasing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Rashid said. The remedy should be a major diplomatic initiative, involving countries such as Iran and India. These countries are crucial because each has an interest in Afghanistan’s future and many of them seek to control the country now, Rashid said. “Kabul has become the new Kashmir,” Rashid said, referring to the growing rivalry between Indian and Pakistani intelligence services in Afghanistan’s capital. Some audience members, including Kurt L. Sonntag, a Kennedy School national security fellow...
...that these unlikely allies came together out of fear: Whereas the Kremlin fears diplomatic isolation, Chavez fears his end may be fast approaching. What we should all fear is what a populist like Chavez will do with Russian weaponry at a time when he is desperate to remain in control...
...markets, but in tenor, they were polar opposites. Temperament is in the eye of the voter. Is one response evidence of composure and self-possession - or of being too laid-back and unassertive? Is the other response a sign of urgency and decisiveness or a frantic lack of control...
...Navy doctor offered a prescription: whenever McCain erupted, his mother would shout to his father, "Get the water!" Then his parents would fill a bathtub with cold water and drop their fully clothed son in. "Eventually," McCain recalls in his memoirs, "I achieved a satisfactory (if only temporary) control over my emotions...
...They soon became friends and eventually Senate colleagues on the Armed Services Committee, often working in closed-door sessions where members would not need to moderate their passions for public consumption. "I have not, in all those years, ever witnessed any moment when he wasn't in complete control over what he was saying and doing," says Warner. Several other politicians even suggest that McCain's outbursts are not irrational but calculated for effect, to help him push his agenda...