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...than any time in recent history. Despicable though Russia and China’s actions may be, the U.S. needs partners for its coalition against bin Laden and cannot afford to go it alone. In some ways, the U.S. has chosen to pursue a new Concert of Europe, supporting corrupt regimes against the potentially more dangerous forces that might destabilize them; in doing so, however, we must be careful not to turn a blind eye to the very violence against civilians that we are combating...
Ignatieff, who spoke after Slaughter, cautioned that U.S. officials should remember past foreign policy mistakes in which the government’s support of corrupt regimes like the Taliban had come back to haunt...
Asani said that the importance of oil to foreign policy in the Middle East causes the U.S. to prop up corrupt regimes, such as that in Saudi Arabia. Mottahedeh added that oil makes Arabs think that the whole Arabian peninsula, and not just Mecca, is sacred...
...Taliban likes to portray itself as just, resolute and pure. But accounts coming out of Kabul these days depict it in a very different light--as corrupt, abusive and, with expectations of a U.S. attack mounting, increasingly vindictive. Dust-caked refugees fleeing the capital say streets are sealed off and soldiers go from house to house, press-ganging men of military age. "There is a jihad against the Americans going on. Why aren't you fighting?" the Taliban asked Kandaqa, a worker from Kabul, last week. He pledged his house as surety, then collected his family and fled across...
...controversial President of South Vietnam during the war, who survived various attacks but resigned--and fled--as North Vietnamese troops approached Saigon in April 1975; in Boston. Thieu seized power in 1965, and at the urging of the U.S., held elections in 1967. But he surrounded himself with corrupt generals and was perceived by many as ineffective...