Word: neighborism
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Moreover, if the Argentines are attacked, they can probably count on more support, of at least the moral variety, than they have so far received from their Latin American neighbors. The Argentine generals were surprised and upset at the lack of backing they received at the United Nations Security Council immediately after their invasion, where they were condemned as aggressors. The situation would seem less clear-cut to other Latin American countries if the British started shooting in the South Atlantic. At least ten countries, including Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, have expressed sympathy with Argentina's claim to the Falklands...
...There's no question, of course, that President Bush is accentuating the positive. In Tanzania's northern neighbor, Kenya, corruption and vote-rigging is at the center of a bloody stand-off between the government and the opposition in which 1,000 have died since a disputed general election in December. Notwithstanding the President's comments in Tanzania, the U.S. gives $1 billion a year in aid to a Kenyan government that ranks eighth from the bottom in Transparency International's world corruption tables. Bush has declined to visit Kenya, a key ally in Africa, sending Secretary of State Condoleezza...
...Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a name less inappropriate than it might appear. Iraq’s neighbor to the east is a favorite target of Bush rhetoric, in part because of its strategic contributions to the Iraqi insurgency, its abortive nuclear ambitions and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s maniacal defiance. Iran’s status as a dangerous state is unmistakable, and the White House’s apprehension toward it legitimate...
...Obama is also a neighbor, hailing from Illinois, and he has the support of Cleaver's St. Louis counterpart, Rep. William Lacy Clay. With the Clay and Cleaver machines pulling the big cities in opposite directions, women and young people may make the difference. Obama has some big guns helping him with the former audience: Sen. Claire McCaskill, the state's ranking Democrat, has joined her popular mom, Betty Anne, and former Sen. Jean Carnahan in pro-Obama TV and radio advertisements...
...went immediately to his neighbor's house. "There was blood everywhere, Faiz recalls. "There were dead bodies." He says six members of the Daad family had been killed - three men, two women and a young girl. Australian Defence officials say the house, in Chenartu village in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, was raided by Australian troops of the Internatonal Security Assistance Force (ISAF) because it was an "extremist Taliban compound." They said several of the people inside - including one of the women killed - were armed and that they initiated a fierce firefight. Australian commando Luke Worsley was shot dead...