Word: governability
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...will say anything, which leaves him unable to defend his multiple positions. But people who have a core set of values have no difficulty communicating them. That Kerry was partly educated in European boarding schools does not prove he overintellectualizes. It suggests that he believes he is entitled to govern the country, never mind that he has neither the skills nor the values needed for that task. Duane E. Lamers Troy...
...unable to defend his multiple positions. But people who have a core set of values have no difficulty communicating them. That Kerry is the son of a diplomat and was partly educated in European schools does not prove he overintellectualizes. It suggests that he believes he is entitled to govern the country, never mind that he has neither the skills nor the values needed for that task. DUANE E. LAMERS Troy, Mich...
Klein was dead wrong in advising John Kerry's campaign to move to the middle and stay away from "the usual partisan claptrap." Why should the Democrats be the goody-goody party while President Bush and the Republicans govern like right-wing extremists with no apologies to anyone? The Democrats need to fight back hard, get down and dirty and remind their supporters that the election of 2000 was stolen. The Democrats have turned the other cheek once too often. Now it's time to hit back, and hard. FRANK CHILLE Cherry Hill...
...shots. After 11 days in Iraq, Brahimi announced in Baghdad last week that he essentially intended to take a year of political planning by the U.S, crumple it into a ball and toss it into the waste can. He had his own ideas about how Iraq should be governed and who should govern it. Early this month Secretary of State Colin Powell said expanding the 25-member, U.S.-appointed Governing Council was the most practical approach for transferring power after the Coalition Provisional Authority disbands on June 30. But Brahimi's plan, which he will present for Annan's approval...
...president, we hope that domestic political calculations will not keep him from doing what’s right in Iraq. We fear that June 30 will be too soon for an effective handover of authority, given the chaos on the Iraqi street and the unpopularity of the Iraqi governing council—some form of which remains likely to rule the country in the months following the power transfer. It will be difficult and unpopular, but if Iraq is not ready to govern itself by June 30, with functioning, legitimate democratic institutions, a nascent civil society and an effective police...