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Appointed Prime Minister of Iraq's first post-Saddam government in 2004, Allawi headed a corrupt, inept administration that set a poor tone for Iraq's fledgling democracy. As an American appointee, he lacked street cred. He projected himself as a democratic strongman - a contradiction in terms that convinced few of his countrymen. Although a Shi'ite, he alienated many among the majority sect by espousing a secular view of Iraq. Many Iraqis were suspicious of his ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, even though Allawi had left the party in 1975 and had survived an assassination attempt ordered...
...hesitant at the idea of saving governments that clearly acted as irresponsible economic stewards. Yet they really do not have a choice in the short-term, as any European national failure would absolutely devastate the continent as a whole. In addition, blame does not lie entirely on some admittedly inept governments. While it would be hard to find a country that was managed with as little economic integrity as Greece, all of Europe’s countries had access to easy credit and were members of a very lightly regulated financial system for the last decade. No Eurozone country...
...population with these subsidies. In response, numerous blogs and websites including, most notably, Electronic Intifada, have charged Kramer with promoting Palestinian genocide. While this claim appears baseless, the United Nations should flatly reject Kramer’s advice on the grounds that it is both morally offensive and strategically inept...
...Award winner Sasha Grey, and pioneering female to male transsexual porn star Buck Angel. With lectures such as "Babeland’s Lip Tricks: Blowjobs and Going Down," "Sexual Fantasies," and "The 'M' Word" (spoiler alert: it's masturbation), expect our frenemies in New Haven to go from sexually inept to sexually adept...
...because Massachusetts working-class independents didn’t think the Obama administration was doing enough to address their economic concerns. Folks are upset at a lack of both efficacy and backbone. Democrats have to discard the image of a wonkish organization inextricably attached to Wall Street and an inept bureaucracy. Although this may not change the mind of fervent tea partiers in the short run, it’ll help weaken the movement’s influence on swing voters in the long...