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This administration’s strategy for imposing democracy at gunpoint is profoundly naïve and completely unsustainable. Invading Iraq has made it easier for extremists to associate democratization with chaos and occupation and to paint moderate reformers working for democracy within their own countries as stooges for Western imperialism. Moreover, as insurgents gain control over ever-larger swaths of Iraq, and the CIA reports that civil war is a distinct possibility, are we honestly expected, as Bush suggested this week, to view the Iraq war as a prototype for “the advance of democracy?...
...Stray Dogs, shot in Kabul by Marziyeh Meshkini, focuses on the young son and daughter of a Taliban fighter who is missing in action. Their mother has been imprisoned, and each night they try to break into jail to be with her. Like so many Iranian movies, these two paint the region's political and social chaos on the faces of beautiful children. Both films are painful, poignant, hard to look at, harder to forget...
...rest of our lives. In some essential ways, we will be homeless for much of our young adulthood. We may go years without knowing the names of children who bicycle past us, without owning good pots and pans or a matched set of dishes, without being able to paint the walls of the rooms where we live...
...friend with whom Pring-Wilson spent time earlier in the evening, corroborates their claim that he acted in self-defense while fending off an assault by Colono and Colono’s cousin, Samuel Rodriguez. But Adrienne Lynch, the assistant district attorney, used the tape yesterday to paint Pring-Wilson as a callous killer...
Guthrie says that while court was in session yesterday, the prosecution pointed out that Pring-Wilson’s close friends usually call him Sander—insinuating that the defense is trying to paint a different picture of the defendant...