Word: involvementism
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Within days of her burial, the government of then-President Pervez Musharraf had fingered Baitullah Mehsud, the notorious Taliban commander. It enlisted the police expertise of London's Scotland Yard to establish the exact circumstance of Bhutto's death (there was much uncertainty over whether she died by gunshot or...
Immediately after Bhutto's assassination, many Pakistanis accused elements within Musharraf's government or the military establishment of involvement - a charge angrily denied by Musharraf and his aides. Still, just last month, Bhutto's son and political heir, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, suggested that the dictatorship had been responsible for creating...
Maybe the respectful distance men keep reflects the obvious ambivalence so many women show about male involvement. We talk about fathers like puppies tripping over their big paws, a portrait long mirrored in a culture in which Father Knows Least, from Fred Flintstone to Homer Simpson. We diminish with faint...
Schneiderhan's blunt comments do a good job of portraying the German army, or Bundeswehr, as a bunch of whining softies. But there's a serious side to his exasperation. The German army as it stands today is a relatively young creation, born after a period of demilitarization following the...