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...core of Pakistan's predicament is economic. Years of neglect by corrupt politicians have dragged 30% of the population below the poverty line--nearly double the level of the past decade--and created an abiding dissatisfaction with democracy, perfect conditions to breed extremism. With a takeover by the fundamentalists, as one liberal Pakistani remarked, "We'll become another Afghanistan--but with electricity." And nukes...
...core of Pakistan's predicament is economic. Years of neglect by corrupt politicians have dragged 30% of the population below the poverty line?nearly double the level of the past decade?and created an abiding dissatisfaction with democracy, perfect conditions to breed extremism. With a takeover by the fundamentalists, as one liberal Pakistani remarked, "We'll become another Afghanistan?but with electricity." And nukes...
...find out, 10 years from now, that CIA agents initiated massive covert operations to prop up U.S.-friendly but highly corrupt governments that massacred their own people, as we now know occurred in Latin America during the 1980s, I will be able to say self-righteously, “You never told me you were going to do that.” And even if our actions eventually destabilize entire regions of the world, foster global anti-Americanism and bomb a country back into the Stone Age, I might (probably not) argue that it was worth it in order...
...contrast, the notion of Bush's conceding never comes up. Counting votes is seen as tantamount to anarchy. Citizens as corrupt and dexterous as Las Vegas dealers peeling from the bottom of the deck will steal the election. Never mind that manual recounts are routine and that Bush himself is asking for one in New Mexico. Courts such as that of Judge Sauls are praised, despite his refusal to examine the ballots and his applying the wrong legal standard for a recount: evidence that a different outcome was probable rather than merely placing "in doubt the result of the election...
Groton alumni overwhelmingly say the school was picked upon by the press, avid for a chance to portray expensive, exclusive schools as somehow corrupt...