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Megawati is a moderate too, but even if the President were to allow a crackdown on Islamic radicals, there is no guarantee that the military and police would cooperate. A combination of Islamic sympathy, interservice rivalry, greed and simple incompetence has hobbled similar past attempts. In a series of failed...
Lamie says such procedures afford current leadership a measure of flexibility in choosing its successors. They also provide some guarantee that future leadership meets certain criteria, meritocratic or otherwise.
Because Hwei is from Malaysia—one of 26 countries for which the State Department has created newly-strict, post-Sept. 11 visa policies—no one can guarantee when his visa will arrive.
“No one could give you a guarantee by what date it will be done,” said State Department spokesperson Stuart Patt.
“The Harvard Club of Malaysia offered the Embassy a guarantee of good behavior for me in order to procure a temporary visa,” Hwei wrote, but the State Department did not take them up on the offer.