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...actually no way to stop the civil war in Baghdad.” Despite the fact that most of the assembled scholars strongly backed Galbraith’s comments, one Iraqi woman took issue with his prediction that Iraq would fracture along ethnic lines. She said that the fault for Iraq’s divisions lies with politicians who are dividing people for their own ends, and that the populace is less divided than Galbraith claimed. “We are all Iraqi,” she added. But an Iraqi Kurd said that he supports autonomy from the Baghdad...
...None of these heads would have rolled under Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon officials suggest. Rumsfeld was loyal to a fault, and generally would back subordinates rather than sack them, since he would view that as tantamount to a rebuke of his own stewardship. He applied this kind of pre-emptive backing to big mistakes - like the poor execution of the military's occupation of Iraq - and lesser ones too, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...
...family has a little girl (Ko A-sung) missing in the belly of the beast. Then director Bong Joon-ho sets one more plate spinning, with easy-to-spot political metaphors for U.S. influence in Korea and sleight-of-hand in Iraq. If this madly entertaining movie has a fault, it's that it's too ingenious for the genre it ostensibly inhabits...
...meetings with the North Koreans earlier this week as "very constructive," Japan's summit with the North never got off the ground. North Korea pulled out of a planned session yesterday afternoon, and today's talks lasted just 45 minutes. And guess what? It may be Japan's fault...
...mainly from websites for soccer junkies, including ESPN.com’s popular Soccernet site. Message boards lit up with requests for more information about the unknown Ivy Leaguer. Soccer bloggers raised their eyebrows—“I can’t find too much fault with his game,” read one blog called Du Nord—and simultaneously downplayed Akpan’s performance against an unexceptional Caribbean team with a middling goalkeeper...