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...while others like the Islamic Party withdrew, although they didn't actively call for a boycott. The wild card in the pack is radical Shiite populist Moqtada al-Sadr, whose organization has mass support among urban Shiite youth in Baghdad. Sadr, who has twice tangled with U.S. forces in epic confrontations, has hedged his bets, with some of his known supporters joining the UIA list under Sistani's auspices, while other spokesmen for his movement have publicly questioned the legitimacy of the election. Sadr appears to be hedging his bets, retaining a foothold in Sistani's alliance at the same...
...epic, broad and slightly comic--Brechtian, in the best sense of the word. And Armstrong's adenoidal whine, backed up by the rhythm section's precise fury, keeps the concept from ever becoming pretentious--or Brechtian in the worst sense...
...That?s one version of the story. Another, from Barry's many detractors, who include scores of former supporters, almost the entire city council and members of Congress who thought he mismanaged the city as mayor, is that his comeback is about feeding an epic ego and replenishing his bank account on the $92,500 salary city council members are paid. But after winning 58% of the votes in a September Democratic primary that included seven candidates, including the incumbent, Barry just finished his fourth week councilman representing Anacostia, one of DC?s poorest areas...
...agree that the U.S. side must win in Iraq. But the worldview Dr. Rice articulated throughout her confirmation hearings may be even more troubling to alienated allies than the specifics of Iraq. Her idea that the campaign against Islamist extremism and terrorism can be likened to the epic struggles of the Cold War and World War II is simply not widely accepted outside of Washington. Dr. Rice has previously sought to explain events in Iraq by comparing the situation there to that in Germany in the years immediately after World War II - a common conceptual approach among a number...
...Cold War became an epic generational conflict precisely because all of the players on the international stage came to define themselves by their alignment with one camp or the other - it was the basic organizing principle of their foreign policy. But many countries that are working closely with the U.S. on the problem of international terrorism are not about to make this cooperation the organizing principle of their foreign policy, for the simple reason that they don't see the problem of terrorism as anything remotely approaching the geopolitical menace represented by the Axis powers in World...