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...Hillary will jumpstart America's moribund energy policy by addressing the threats posed by both global warming and hostile Middle East regimes. Other candidates have called for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, charging that Hillary’s vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq indicates bad judgment. But, a far more relevant concern than what brought us to war is what needs to be done to end it. Hillary’s position is clear: If we are still in Iraq in 2009, she will pull us out, with a balanced approach of humanitarianism and realism...
...Department of Euphemism since day one. When asked if he meant to question Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s patriotism when he said that her opposition to “the Surge” was helping al Qaeda, he responded, “I questioned her judgment.” He continued: “The terrorists don’t expect to beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. They’re not likely to try. The only way they can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission...
...This is not to say that candidates' private lives need be entirely irrelevant to our view of them as public figures. Gingrich's marriages and divorces are matters of public record, and voters can pass judgment on that. Gingrich can, furthermore, publicly express remorse about his past behavior if he wishes. But surely there is something unseemly in the way this Dobson-Gingrich transaction took place. Conspicuously public pleas for absolution seem insincere, whatever the motives of either participant...
...Because the chances of success are infinitesimally small - even the one in a thousand petitioners who succeeds in getting some sort of response from the authorities in Beijing usually finds that the resulting judgment is simply ignored back home in the provinces - petitioners often travel to the capital during the NPC meeting in the hope of winning support from a delegate. But the last thing that state security officials want to see is thousands of petitioners ruining their carefully choreographed event. Having in many cases endured beating and imprisonment by provincial security officials, the thousands congregating in the area around...
...Foreign diplomats and government officials this week questioned Musharraf's judgment. Some have suggested it's the beginning of the end for the military man who seized power in a 1999 coup. "I think he has ruined himself," says Lieutenant General (Rtd) Hameed Gul, the former director general of Pakistani intelligence organization Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). "He's not going to be able to placate the forces he has unleashed...