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...more than 1,000 favelas, the so-called Pacifier Police Divisions have been introduced in just four - authorities lack either the resources or the manpower to implement them all across the city, and they have resisted root-and-branch reforms of police forces that are unprofessional, corrupt, poorly paid and poorly armed in comparison to the drug gangs they face...
...undertaken to defeat al-Qaeda is increasingly seen through the lens of these elections. In my home state of Vermont - where the National Guard is about to deploy to Afghanistan - people seek me out to ask why our soldiers should be fighting for a corrupt Afghan government clinging to power by fraud. I am quite sure the same question is being asked of political leaders in both the U.S. and Europe...
There is no easy solution to Afghanistan's election mess. If the ECC removes enough fraudulent votes, Karzai will fall below 50%, and there will be a second round of voting. However, the factors that caused problems on Aug. 20 - ghost polling stations, corrupt election staff and a partisan commission - are still present. Dealing with those factors will require leadership that the head of the U.N. mission has yet to demonstrate. If Karzai emerges the winner of the rushed and incomplete audit process now under way, Afghanistan's internal peace will depend on Karzai's opponents accepting - or at least...
...Abiding Citizen is yet another Hannibal lecture: a tutorial in civics porn. Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer posits that the law is so weak and corrupt an arbiter of guilt that punishment can't be entrusted to it, or even to private contractors. (Care to make a little money on the side, Blackwater?) No, revenge is a dish best wolfed down right now, because this time it's personal. And for Shelton, the body count of retribution is "gonna be biblical" - as in the Egyptian children killed by God's decree. By midspree, and from the seemingly airtight confinement of his prison...
...screenwriter and married an aspiring actor, Frank O'Connor. Her politicization came when she and her husband worked on Republican Wendell Willkie's losing presidential campaign in 1940. According to Burns, "Before Willkie she had been pro-capitalist yet pessimistic, writing 'The capitalist world is low, unprincipled, and corrupt.' Now she celebrated capitalism as the 'noblest, cleanest and most idealistic system...