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Debating Afghanistan Re Joe Klein's "The Mystery of the Surge" [Nov. 23]: President Obama stated unequivocally that victory over the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is essential to U.S. national security. If this is true, why agonize over the corruption of Hamid Karzai's regime or the ability...
After years of living abroad, I often have my doubts, confusions and a sense of loss. I feel somewhat disconnected from my motherland, China, where I spent 20 years growing up. I believe that the Chinese diaspora all have the same feeling at some point. This insightful and well-researched...
On a recent cover, weekly French newsmagazine Le Point featured a photo of a confounded- looking President Nicolas Sarkozy in a heavy rainstorm with a headline that read what's happening to him? Both the image and the question captured Sarkozy's transformation from a leader who could do no...
Some conservatives are worried enough that they're taking action. In early November, former conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin led a revolt in France's upper house of parliament by refusing to back Sarkozy's pet bill that would have ended a particular tax on businesses. Though Raffarin agrees...
Ending a two-day manhunt, a police officer shot and killed Maurice Clemmons, a 37-year-old ex-con suspected of gunning down four other officers in a coffee shop near Tacoma, Wash. Police charged Clemmons' associates with aiding his flight from justice.