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Clearly, the international community must respond to Zimbabwe’s flawed elections and Mugabe’s flagrant abuse of executive power. An attempt by the United States and Great Britain to convince Mugabe to share power in a national-unity government appears to have failed, indicating even more strongly Mugabe’s determination to cling to power. In response, the European Union (EU) and the United States have condemned the elections. The EU imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe before the election was even held, following the expulsion of European election observers, and EU ministers are set to discuss...
...hate as much as ignorance. Some of the remarks I heard irked me because of their silliness: “Their demonstration is so stupid—it’s just a ploy to appeal to human sentiment.” Other comments bothered me because of their flagrant inaccuracy. I joined the demonstrators in trying to dispel some of these myths. No—nobody here supports suicide bombings. No—Palestinian territory was not a barren desert wasteland before Israel conquered it in 1967. No—the Palestinian cause is not about destroying Israel; it?...
...most freedom-of-expression cases, the alleged offense was more flagrant than the Chomsky text that propelled Tas into court. In that March 2001 lecture, entitled "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" and delivered in Toledo, Ohio, the U.S. academic referred to Turkey's crackdown on its Kurdish population as "one of the most severe human-rights atrocities of the 1990s, continuing in fact." Chomsky also laid much of the blame for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds and the destruction of their villages - in "massive ethnic cleansing" - at the feet of the U.S., which provided Turkey...
...question of legitimacy is flagrant in Iran, where President Mohammed Khatami and his supporters won all the popular elections but could not win real power, which instead resides with Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. In Syria it seems there is no way out of Hafez Assad's authoritarian legacy. If Saddam Hussein finally falls from power in Iraq, heaven knows who might replace him, so ruthless has he been in suppressing rivals. Yasser Arafat's lack of a mandate has made him unable to make historic decisions in the peace process, so he instead alternates between directions...
...official word was that Rubin?s presence was a show of bipartisanship. But has the credibility of Greenspan, hardly a flagrant Republican these past 14 years at the Fed?s helm, sunk so low? Or was it that in a time of economic crisis, the sight of Rubin and Greenspan together again, just like the time they saved the world from the 1997 Asian currency meltdown, was deemed to be far more reassuring that the sight of Greenspan and O?Neill...