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...there be a third future? That will depend on whether we succeed in holding proliferation at bay. Iran is the test case. It is the most dangerous political entity on the planet, and yet the world response has been catastrophically slow and reluctant. Years of knowingly useless negotiations, followed by hesitant international resolutions, have brought us to only the most tentative of steps--referral to a Security Council that lacks unity and resolve. Iran knows this and therefore defiantly and openly resumes its headlong march to nuclear status. If we fail to prevent an Iranian regime run by apocalyptic fanatics...
...Chaterji says she realized her identity did not depend on taking part in a particular ethnic community, and she chose to break out of her comfort zone...
...That may be, but whether she can actually deliver the district to the Democrats will depend on how well she can translate her combat experience into political know-how. "My service gives me an insight that other candidates won't have, and my injuries give me a platform," she said. "But that's all it is, a platform. If there was no substance to me-[issues] like education, the health care, the jobs-I'd fall off that platform very quickly...
...university council, the deans and the heads of the departments should all be members of one of the main parties, KDP or PUK. Admissions aren't based on merit, they are based of membership in one of the two parties. Scholarships are only for party members." Big business contracts depend on connections and political affiliations as well, leading to a pandemic of corruption, according to Kurdish businessmen and anti-corruption groups...
...Many of us struggle with difficult questions about what exactly constitutes a violation of human rights and whether it is appropriate for us to be the moral arbiters for a distant culture. And so on, until we have plagued ourselves with self-doubt. Certainly, the unelected clerics of Iran depend on enough of us doing that. But those of us who are sincerely concerned with the plight of Iranians cannot satisfy ourselves through further abdication. It is crystal clear that something has to be done.Even people halfway around the world can accomplish something important for Iran. In an interview with...