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...Because, it seems, the Bush Administration has other fish to fry. The first is Moqtada al-Sadr, whose movement features a defiant nationalism that is traditionally both anti-American and anti-Persian (although Sadrist elements have been willing to accept help from the Iranians in recent years). Under questioning from Hillary Clinton about the Maliki government's recent abortive offensive against Sadr's forces in Basra, Petraeus admitted that U.S. troops would have provided resources and "different actions" for a more carefully planned attack. An intelligence source told me that the operation had been planned for June...
...rumors as to the direction of Zimbabwe, the intentions of Mugabe and the fate of the M.D.C. How do you see the situation? TSVANGIRAI: We are planning to use our political influence in the region to put pressure on Mugabe to concede defeat. He is trying to be defiant. The military leaders in the establishment are trying to subvert the will of the people. This is, in a sense, a de facto military coup. They have rolled out military forces across the whole country, to prepare for a run-off and try to cow the population. It's an attempt...
...rifle - and proclaiming that the Democratic Presidential candidate could remove that gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands." It was as if Al Gore was Messala, or the Ape King, or the Omega man's marauders, or a band of Comanches who needed a comeuppance of defiant rhetoric plus massive weaponry. The declaration assured that popular history would now remember Heston not just as a movie axiom but as the Holy Gun Fighter...
...Other jewels present in the DSM are Opposition Defiant Disorder (a “recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior towards authority”), Caffeine Intoxication (characterized by “restlessness, nervousness, excitement, flushed face, insomnia, and gastrointestinal disturbance” after drinking two to three cups of coffee), and Dependent Personality Disorder (an excessive clinginess which could involve “a difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others,” a “difficulty in expressing disagreement” and a tendency...
Meanwhile, her opponents will be regrouping. It is too early to write an obituary for Labor, but the party's ultimate health depends on the direction it takes in the next few months. If last week's defeat causes defiant Laborites to move farther to the left, the party's fortunes will continue to dwindle. But if Labor steers back to a more moderate course, then at least it stands a chance of reversing the decline...