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...According to a poll published in The New York Times, Americans believe in Barack Obama's ability to change the course of the economy, health care, and the war in Iraq, but they understand that it may take at least two years to see some results. In terms of the length of the recession it is a capitulation of sorts, an admission that the financial straights in which the economy finds itself has no ready solution. (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
...doing so, the assessment report left no base uncovered. It noted that there are "scenarios of concern": the use of Iraq-style improvised explosive devices, Mumbai-style armed assault and hostage-taking, and suicide bombing. It said law-enforcement agencies should be watchful for lone offenders, attacks on soft targets (hotels, restaurants, transport, etc.) near the Capitol and explosives placed in "heavily trafficked areas...
...will be months and probably years before the full scope of Cheney's power - where it started and stopped - will be fully understood. Many Bush critics have traced the biggest failures of the Bush presidency - like the obsession with weapons of mass destruction as a reason to invade Iraq - to the office of the Vice President. But Cheney leaves Washington as the most powerful Vice President in decades, perhaps ever...
...passing mention to a horn-tooting list of favorite achievements, like education reform, tax cuts and the expansion of Medicare. Maybe he was right to pass by the collapse of the economy with less passion than he devoted to the story of the father of a Marine killed in Iraq. He could hardly be accused of making a big deal about nonwar matters when he summed up the current crisis in a single sentence: "These are very tough times for hardworking families, but the toll would be far worse if we had not acted...
...Jacques Mistral, head of economic research at the French Institute of Foreign Relations in Paris says Thursday's move reflects a last-gasp provocation by the Bush administration, which has never forgotten France's emphatic non before the invasion of Iraq. Mistral - who was economic adviser at the French Embassy in Washington during the stormy period from 2001 to 2006 - says the current swipe at Roquefort will prove less economically threatening than the Iraq-triggered American public boycott of France's wines in 2003 - and shorter-lived than the deportation of French fries from Congress' menu. "Even from this administration...